GTD app: Ghost Action

Posted at February 6, 2007

The race for the best Mac GTD app is still on! A new app is in the race: Ghost Action.

Ghost Action screenshot

(Ghost Action screenshot. The app looks slightly different than this screenshot, as I use Uno).

I still have big hopes for OmniFocus, but Ghost Action looks clean and simple, and very similar to Actiontastic. It looks like it’s made using technology by Omni, the same way Actiontastic does.

Ghost Action syncs with iCal (both ways), something Inbox doesn’t do yet.

I had some problems when entering text into new actions. The text just disappeared after hitting Return. This happened twice on about 20 actions. I’ll try it out for some days. One “fun” thing is to see what happens with tasks already in iCal, synced from Actiontastic. Do the two apps live nicely together?

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  • http://ghostparksoftware.com Jacob Wallström

    Hi,

    I am the developer of Ghost Action. After some experimentation I found the bug you are mentioning. It’s happening if you add a new action by pressing the add button, while a previous action is still in text edit mode. I will have a fix ready in a few days. Your application will automatically be notified about the update when running Ghost Action.

    Thanks,
    Jacob Wallström

  • http://ghostparksoftware.com Jacob Wallström

    Hi,

    I am the developer of Ghost Action. After some experimentation I found the bug you are mentioning. It’s happening if you add a new action by pressing the add button, while a previous action is still in text edit mode. I will have a fix ready in a few days. Your application will automatically be notified about the update when running Ghost Action.

    Thanks,
    Jacob Wallström

  • http://pascalvenier.com/blog/?p=254 [Productivity Workflows] » GTD App of the week: Ghost Action

    [...] I expected this release, thanks to Takaaki Kato, who blogs at SamuraiCoder.net, who had given me the heads up a few days ago. Oyvind Solstad has just posted about it this morning at Brilliant Days and comments that “The race for the best Mac GTD app is still on!”. Ghost Action will indeed be a prime contender in this game! [...]

  • http://www.brilliantdays.com Oyvind

    Thanks Jacob! That makes sense. I was entering lots of todos really fast. Any plans for being able to add files etc. to todos?

  • http://www.brilliantdays.com Oyvind

    Thanks Jacob! That makes sense. I was entering lots of todos really fast. Any plans for being able to add files etc. to todos?

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    [...] other three apps all look great when they are this big. At smaller sizes, Ghost Action look the best. Clear and simple. Actiontastic is a little to complicated for smaller sizes, but the [...]

  • http://www.pascalvenier.com/?p=903 GTD App of the week: Ghost Action

    [...] had given me the heads up a few days ago. Oyvind Solstad has just posted about it this morning at Brilliant Days and comments that “The race for the best Mac GTD app is still on!”. Ghost Action will [...]

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