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Hawk Wings: 10 Mac GTD tools

Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Ten Mac tools for Getting Things Done

Tim Gaden summarizes ten tools with which Mac users can do GTD.

Tools to help Mac users with Getting Things Done (or “GTD”), David Allen’s work-smart philosophy, fall in to three camps:

  1. email clients, where most of the stuff that needs to get done arrives in the first place, tweaked to do the job.
  2. Dedicated GTD apps like kGTD or Easy Task Manager offer more focussed collection and processing buckets.
  3. Web-based solutions offer platform-independent tools for getting things done, especially good if you use a Mac at home and a PC at work.

Includes Backpack (in conjunction with the Quicksilver plugin), Kinkless, and Gina’s Todo.txt. Definitely worth a look — especially if you’ve recently switched to a Mac and want to see what all the fuss is about.


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Watts's picture

One that I haven't seen...

One that I haven’t seen mentioned yet but is worth mentioning: Hog Bay Software’s odd but cool outliner/notebook, Mori, has an “mGTD” plugin that’s still in beta. I’ve been using it instead of kGTD (on the practical grounds that I’m currently unemployed, don’t have a license for OmniOutliner Pro, and so have one for Mori).

Mark's picture

I tried something a bit...

I tried something a bit different the other day. I installed PHP/MyQl on my MacBook Pro and also installed Vanilla. http://www.getvanilla.com. Vanilla is a simple yet elegant discussion group kind of deal but if you run it locally it can be your own personal note taking, organizing, utility of uber sexyness. Not to mention SQL dumps are easy and very small backups, and it can be moved/ported to work from any computer. Worth a mention i thought.

Ben's picture

Another tool worth mentioning in...

Another tool worth mentioning in conjunction with gmail is gspace. It allows you to use your free gmail space (gotta love that) as remote machine. You can transfer and access files between an computer where you can access your gmail account.

regeya's picture

I just started using Emacs...

I just started using Emacs org-mode. Comes with Emacs, will integrate with the Diary, etc. If only I could figure out how to either ditch or integrate ‘remind’.

Richard S's picture

The new kid on the...

The new kid on the block is gtdAlt.

It’s a textMate bundle that allows you to plan in projects and work from contexts. Integrates with QuickSilver, Remind and soon iCal.

Like kinkless in plain text. It’s now my preferred gtd system.

Richard S's picture

Me again...a better link for...

Me again…a better link for gtdAlt is here.

reno's picture

Hello ! I like very much...

Hello !

I like very much your blog !

Greetings from Belgium.

Cheers.

Reno

thirstyrobot's picture

I read this post with...

I read this post with much interest, but I’m continually surprised that 43F has yet to mention Daylite as the ultimate all-in-one GTD for Mac. I started using this app about six months ago and never looked back when it proved it could handle all my obsessive list-making needs, plus follow ups, projects, calendars as well as meshing right into Mail.

Gil Friend's picture

II"ve been using Daylite too,...

II”ve been using Daylite too, really liking the integration (tho not the speediness), and gradually working GTD into it. I’d love to see more thinking and how-to guidance.

Steve J's picture

Yep, Daylite top of the...

Yep, Daylite top of the pile for me too. Tried them all ad nauseam. Boiled the list down to E2004 or Daylite. The latter, in its latest beta (3.1) is just pretty damn good.

Jennifer's picture

Thanks to you guys, I...

Thanks to you guys, I just downloaded Daylite. Love it. Fantastic.

Jennifer

Ken Girard's picture

For those of you not...

For those of you not using a Mac, or even if you are, there is d3 (http://www.dcubed.ca/) and MonkeyGTD (http://simonbaird.com/monkeygtd/). Both are running on TiddlyWiki.

cnwb's picture

The site seems to have...

The site seems to have been taken down - there’s just a message which reads “Website Disabled”.

ninefish's picture

Hi Does anyone know where I...

Hi

Does anyone know where I can get an older version of kGTD? I’ve got 0.83 and no icons whilst I’m using 10.3.9 and thought that if I installed 0.752 it might actually work better or I’ll have to upgrade to 10.4 :-)

 
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