I love the KGTD system. While I don’t subscribe to the GTD system as most others do, I have found KGTD to be a really quick and easy implementation, and so I use it.

A note: KGTD requires the Pro version of OmniOutliner. It’s a few extra bucks, but the upgrade price isn’t that bad, and it gives you a slew of features not in the normal version.

As an Information Architect, I rely on OmniOutliner Pro and OmniGraffle Pro to get things done. They’re wonderful tools, and worth the cost.

I’ve been using the KGTD system for a bit, but the addition of the quicksliver action puts it on top.

I also keep my lists in a sidedrawer within KGTD and add to them via quicksilver. It took me a while to figure out how to append text (as it goes to the existing file but not the KGTD attachment)

Create .txt file>attach to KGTD>Save KGTD>Export KGTD as html (dynamic) Call up quicksilver>type text>append text>list name (~filelocation/KGTD.003/listname.txt)

After that delete the original.txt files and the html docs and it seems to work good for me.

Also, I emailed Ethan thinking the iPod bit would put the OO stuff on it, but for now it initiates a syncing of your iPod with your iCal

Theory: tools only work and make you feel productive and invincible while they’re shiny & new (or recently updated). Then after a while the buzz wears off and you must start the obsessive quest for new tools yet again, driving productivity down.

I’m not sure if I totally believe that myself, maybe I’m just under the influence of Joe Clark’s recent anti-GTD diatribe. It sounds right, though.

Theory: tools only work and make you feel productive and invincible while they’re shiny & new

Yeah. Totally. Like index cards. I only ever pick that crap up when they do a decent feature upgrade. ;-)

And, with respect, this Joe Clark person needs a fresh nappie and a chew toy.

Hilimire, would you mind explaining your system a bit more slowly so that the non-adepts of OO3 can follow? I’m fascinated but I’m not following the bit about the “sidedrawer” and the “attachment.”

Are you saying that you are able to use the OO3 KGTD document to keep a set of independent task list documents organized via a set of links? And that you add to those tasking documents with Quicksilver “append to” commands? But that you had to do a set of weird imports and exports of the KGTD document to get this to work?

I guess what I don’t get is (1) exactly how KGTD can be used to organize subdocuments (i.e. I’m ignorant about that capacity of OO3), and (2) why any such organizational capacity would require a weird hack like you describe.

Ottoe; by ‘Sidedrawer’ I mean your utility drawer (click view>Show Utility Drawer), press the + on the bottom, I called mine lists.

Create a text document (I used textedit) and name it your list (might wanna do, might wanna purchase, etc)

In OO3 go to your lists section and add a new blank line (hit return) and attach your newly created text file by clicking attach. Then follow the above instructions.

I feel this makes it easy to create new projects, catalog info as you are right within the same program when reviewing your lists

For some reason when I tried appending text to the text document, it would only append it to the document I originally created (and not to the embedded .txt in OO3). After I exported it as an html (dynamic) for viewing it on the web, the next time I appended text the ~KGTD.oo3/textdocument.txt appeared in quicksilver…weird but it seem to work for me

Jeez, Joe, talk about missing the point.

Not to speak for Dave Allen, but the whole point of GTD is that it helps you keep track of stuff - tasks, information, whatever - so that you can get it done. The worth of a system like GTD can be expressed almost exclusively by how fast you can get a specific datum in and out of it. It is not, except tangentially, about procrastination.

It just so happens that when I get disorganized - papers cluttering the desk, can’t remember what I have on my plate because I haven’t recorded it somewhere outside my brain - I get irritable. When I try to get my head wrapped around it all, I glance around, then think, “Maybe I could just surf Flickr for a little while longer.” Then it’s two hours later and I haven’t accomplished anything.

So, yeah - a system actually does help me with my own peculiar version of ADD. I’m happy with that. I don’t think Joe understands exactly how much time a guy like me can kill when we lose our direction. So with respect, Joe: I was a procrastinator today, and I probably will be tomorrow. But occasionally, I’m not only really efficient, but untroubled, and I’m going to keep trying to get back into that state whenever I can.

Would anybody be willing to post a screenshot or two of the kinds of the information you’re using KGTD for? Merlin, do you put personal stuff in or just specific web-related stuff? How do you organize the different areas? Examples for those of us as of yet too cheap to spend the $ for OO Pro would be really cool. KGTD is totally lovely but I want to get my head around how I’d use it.

I think you can do a free trial/evaluation period.

But I posted a screenshot here: http://www.jasonhilimire.com/oo3screenshot.tiff

Thanks! It’s pretty, I gotta say that for it.