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iCommit: PHP app for doing GTD
Merlin Mann | Jun 27 2006
Getting Things Done [iCommit.eu] Rainer Bernhardt has put together a nifty little PHP app for doing GTD via a web interface. It lets you wrangle projects, next actions, calendar items, ad hoc lists, and all the other tactical building blocks of GTD all via your (non-IE) browser. The interface is pretty good and typical workflow is quite easy to navigate through. It has nice touches like attachments, per-item effort estimates, printable views, plus Rainer says he may soon offer email integration which would “eliminate use of a separate e-mail app” for workflow-related planning. Wow. Although I haven’t spent a great deal of time with it, I’m very intrigued by the baked-in “weekly review” functionality, which walks you through most of what you need to look over each week from one interface. Since review gets short shrift from the many folks (like me) who use GTD primarily for task management, I think an addition like this is a terrific idea. iCommit is, like so many of my favorite apps these days, a non-commercial, one-man operation, so there are a few rough edges, no documentation (yet! coming soon, says Rainer), and it is very much “first come, first served” in terms of seats he can handle on his personal server setup (I hope we don’t cream Rainer’s productivity boxen with this). But iCommit is worth a look if you’ve been craving a cross-platform, low-paper implementation of Getting Things Done. Screengrabs below the cut — I feel like Michael Arrington! Home pageLogged-in with a few test items. Project viewNew next actionNote “Effort” estimate. 23 Comments
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![]() Hmm. Nextaction is nice, but...Submitted by Martin (not verified) on June 27, 2006 - 5:40pm.
Hmm. Nextaction is nice, but in the end I dumped it in favor of Tasktoy. It just got too heavy and slow. Saving would take up to 30 seconds and I always had to remember to take the files with me when moving around. With TT, this is not an issue. But none of the apps I have tried lets me have nested projects. Big drawback. I assume things like kGTD provide this kind of functionality, but (a) I don’t have a Mac, and (b) I want something web-based. Does something like this exist? (I did not try iCommit yet, so I don’t know if it has this functionality.) »
![]() All of us with Macs...Submitted by Paul (not verified) on June 27, 2006 - 9:32am.
All of us with Macs have our own apache servers, as well as PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails and all sorts of other fun stuff that make installing these web apps a breeze. I agree that nextaction is a nice app. I really appreciate it’s simplicity. I’ll look into PimliPoche, because I’m really impressed with TiddlyWiki. Mostly I agree that the best solution is the simplest thing that works for you. »
![]() Tracks and the excellent sourceforge...Submitted by Daniel Burstyn (not verified) on June 27, 2006 - 8:42am.
Tracks and the excellent sourceforge project and such are fine for you webmasters with your own Apache servers, a new computer every three months and I don’t know what else. For the rest of us, iCommit seems nice, as Merlin points out that pesky WEEKLY REVIEW is built in, but for those of us who want something similar that keeps the material on the local drive - I like trimpath’s nextaction which runs on some sort of javascript best. I have tried to make heads or tails of Jacques Tourbe’s PimliPoche which runs on tiddlywiki, as well as GTDTW and Clint Checketts’ version of GTDTW, and I’ll stick with nextaction - I get bogged down by all the eye candy. But in the end, since I’m using a Palm handheld, and I needed that synchronizability, I left all this stuff behind. As DA says, use as few buckets as possible, and empty them often. »
![]() You said it, Will! Send...Submitted by brian (not verified) on June 27, 2006 - 7:47am.
You said it, Will! Send it to the masses! »
![]() Crap. I as hoping this...Submitted by bonaldi (not verified) on June 27, 2006 - 8:16am.
Crap. I as hoping this was open source, as I’m looking for something to replace TaskToy.com. TT has a better UI, even if it is less pretty, and it remembers where you are on each computer you log in from, so your action list is always relevant. But it’s on somebody else’s server too. »
![]() webbased gtd tools are remote?...Submitted by Robb Irrgang (not verified) on June 28, 2006 - 11:45am.
webbased gtd tools are remote? doesn’t everyone just run a local apache and webRICK combination? ;-) (…I guess it’s just me) »
![]() The problem with using tools...Submitted by Chris (not verified) on June 27, 2006 - 4:57am.
The problem with using tools like iCommit or Backpack for GTD is the fact that they are remote. If I am, say, sitting on a plane or in a coffee shop with no WiFi, I cannot access by to-do lists. This is a big problem, which caused me to abandon Backpack as a productivity solution. For someone who spends as much time online as I do, I did not think it would be an issue, but it was. I really like tracks because it lets you have the whole browser-based experience, but on a local webserver. »
I actually agree with you,...Submitted by Merlin Mann on June 27, 2006 - 4:59am.
I actually agree with you, Chris (in terms of my own usage), But you wouldn’t believe how many cross-platformers — esp. Mac lovers with Windows dayjobs — are clamoring for something like this. I just puts ‘em out there — even the ones what I won’t use. :) »
![]() Having read the book once...Submitted by nick (not verified) on June 27, 2006 - 5:15am.
Having read the book once through but not yet implemented, I find myself at one of those situations I call analysis paralysis…I want to implement my GTD, but at the same time I don’t want to choose a tool that will make executing GTD more cumbersome than it has to. And I’m a “home Mac/Win work” user who is in front of a computer more often than not. So, to tool like this may be what I’m looking for, but in the end I’ll want to be able to run it on my web host’s server. Unfortunately, I’ll probably add this to my del.icio.us and over-analyze its usefulness. »
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