Just about every day I see something new that makes me sad I can’t use a Mac…

got it - used it - love it! thanks.

For the past four months I’ve been using my own modification of TiddlyWiki to do something similar (but much clunkier). That went in the trash today. Thanks for sharing this!

I spent some time over the weekend reviewing your template and the applescripts along with your methodology for doing GTD. How do you handle next actions that are not associate with projects such as errands, calls, etc.

For un-projected actions, I just added a Misc To Do project as a catchall. Note, it should be used VERY sparingly, but things like remembering to go troubleshoot your father’s iPod don’t necessarily warrant a full project.

I’m digging this nicely. My own methods really didn’t ever get to the point of floating next actions to the top where they belong. The use of columns for context is brilliant, too.

I watched the movie on the website, and it looks like an excellent program (similar in some ways to the web-based tasktoy). But everything it does, LifeBalance does and does it even better, as well as include Palm synchronization, so if you’re looking for good GTD software for the Mac (or Windows) try LB . One trick in LB useful for GTD is that you can define a place called “Projects”, and use it for any of your projects; if one doesn’t have a next action (i.e. a child assigned to a regular context). it will show up in the To-Do list when you choose the place “Projects”. Any projects that don’t show up in the list will thus have a next action assigned, which saves you time at the Weekly Review.

I think mentioning LB is good, except that this is free and LB costs $70 and is much uglier. Also, I tend to believe Kinkless will find a way to support iCal long before LB does :)

Life balance is targeted toward a different, complementary goal. GTD is a tactical system for managing your productivity in the face of the daily skirmish for your time. LB is a long-view strategic system for managing life goals. While LB may be shoe-horned into a GTD context, it’s a forced fit. I’m convinced there are better ways. KGTD may well be part of a better way.

im having a really really hard time determing the difference between a project and an action. should i have a project called HOMEWORK? or should i have an action/context called homework and then have every single class a different project, or every different assignment inside a class have a different project….any direction would be helpful. thanks

Hey, I love this. Thanks so much.

Question. Really a question about OOL. How do I set things so that I have different toolbars corresponding to different templates? I have a toolbar setup for outlining that I like, but the Kinkless GTD really needs its own special toolbar. I want to have access to both—can anyone tell me how to do that?

I would not have a Homework as a project or context. I see context as setting/space and or resource availability. A next action should describe actual work. Homework is not an action. “Read chapter 1 in Theory on management text” is an action. Or you could go even simpler “Get text book from backpack.” What ever it takes to get you started.

Kinkless GTD

Einfache Listen sind langweilig ;) Wer es gerne etwas komfortabler mchte sollte mal einen Blick auf Kinkless GTD System werfen. Es handelt sich dabei um ein OmniOutliner Dokument, garniert mit einigen Skripten. Wirklich gut …

KGTD: GTD + OmniOutliner

I stumbled across KGTD yesterday on 43 Folders. It is an OmniOutliner Pro (OO) implementation of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD). GTD is a hugely popular method for organizing your workflow. KGTD is an OO template and some Applescript…

Am I the only one left wondering about the “kinky GTD” system that I’ve been missing all this time?

Dan,

I thinked that maybe you missed using the “kinked GTD system.”

Not really as much fun as either the kinky or kinkless systems.

I don’t see the magic of this system, and while it is free, it is dependent upon Omni Outliner, which does indeed cost money.

The thing about having to press “sync” all the time seems

In that aspect I think Life Balance is way better, and the interface is, IMO, not any worse than most other apps. Life Balance is not to be “shoehorned” into doing this, as I when I read GTD by David Allen I kept thinking he must have gotten the whole idea from the Life Balance ideology.

Also, I can’t help feeling people are a little too obsessed with the whole GTD thing. I have David Allen’s (audio)book Getting Things Done, but I keep thinking it’s maybe more a way to think than a way to structure an application. It seems like people think that putting stuff into an application will make them more productive, but in the end it’s all up to Nike’s approach: Just Do It.