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If you decide that a thought is actionable (it is a “thing to do,” as it were), you describe the thought’s outcome, so that you know what “completion” would mean you give the thought a description and you decide whether it can performed in a single step.

Here’s how you categorize a thought in the Process Thoughts screen (and observe that your options are remarkably faithful to the GTD Workflow paradigm): It is now something else (an action or a project, or else a future item or an information item – I’ll explain those terms in a moment) it has passed through the door, and is now in the list. That’s because a processed thought is no longer a thought. The idea, though, is that this screen should never have contents for very long – no point hanging around the doorway! In the second screen (Process Thoughts), you categorize each thought, one at a time, and when you do, it automatically disappears from the list of thoughts in the first screen. In the first screen (Collect Thoughts), you enter things you want to do (“thoughts”) as they occur to you. Think of them as the door to your list everything passes through here. Off to See the Wizards - The first two screens have to do with how things get into your GTD list. I’ll describe the screens for you, so you can see what I mean. The developers have clearly taken to heart the GTD philosophy, in detail, and have been at pains to express this through Thinking Rock’s screens. This is a great approach, because it not only handles the logic of the GTD process for you, it also embodies (and teaches you) that process.

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On the surface, meanwhile, Thinking Rock’s interface behaves as a kind of wizard, a series of screens that guides you through the process of constantly forming, maintaining, and reviewing your GTD list. This file effectively describes a lightweight relational database, so it has the dimensionality necessary to implement a GTD list. The latest version, 1.2.2, has been particularly worth waiting for.īehind the scenes, Thinking Rock maintains an XML file – a choice that I very much appreciate, since in an emergency any text processor can access your data.

It’s Thinking Rock, a well thought-out freeware application from a couple of developers in Sydney, Australia. New Rock on the Block - Recently, though, I’ve discovered a new application explicitly dedicated to GTD.

Similarly, Ryan Holcomb’s GTD Tinderbox template is an ingenious nightmare of workflow rules that it’s up to you to remember.)

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(Ethan Schoonover’s Kinkless GTD tries hard, using AppleScript, to bend OmniOutliner Pro and iCal into a GTD list, but I’ve found it disappointing.

But what’s still missing is the interface to help you enter, maintain, and view your data, along with the logic that automatically adjusts things in response to your changes. The addition of columns helps, and an application like OmniOutliner Pro or Tinderbox could certainly hold the data. An outline’s hierarchical dimensionality just doesn’t match the way you maintain a GTD list. But an outliner, out of the box, makes a poor GTD aid. This might seem surprising, considering what a hard-core outliner wonk I am.

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My experience, though, is that it’s not easy to adapt existing software for GTD. In his recent TidBITS article, “ Getting Things Done With Your Macintosh” (24-Jul-06), Jeff Porten explains the general Getting Things Done (GTD) philosophy, and mentions some software that might be used or adapted for maintaining GTD lists.

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