More on Getting Things Done

This is a follow-up to my post about Getting Things Done.

I decided to stick with Note Studio, using a modification of the GTD template book by Dr. Volker Kurz (don't bother downloading the template unless you also download the trial version of Note Studio--you won't see a thing). Two things convinced me to take this path:

1. Note Studio can be hot synced with my PDA--a wiki on my palm.


2. The GTD template allows me to plan my next actions with the project. By simply labeling the next actions with the context, they automatically appear on the appropriate context lists--with no cutting and pasting. This magic happens on the PDA, not the desktop, which frustrated me for a while over the weekend until I figured that out.

GTDTiddlyWiki came highly recommended by several people. If I hadn't bought Note Studio a few months ago, I'd probably start with that. Although, I may decide, in the end, that it was worth the money to have this on my PDA.

Backpack is very pretty, but it also costs a pretty penney every single month. Here's one of Aunt Joy's secrets to financial success: minimize recurring expenses--they add up! Also, Backpack solves the project planning bit, but so do lots of things. Probably the more important, and unique, aspect of GTD is the concept of the context-sensitive Next Action list. I don't see how to implement that easily with Backpack.

I also played around with a new tool that I saw on lifehack.org. Tasktoy is a GTD system on the web with an extremely clean and simple interface. As cool as wikis are, it always takes me a little time to wrap my mind around them. Tasktoy is very intuitive. I might have gone this route, but it limited me to twenty projects--I need 43!     #

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