Interesting…

There was a program I did a few years ago called Mission Control that has definite similarities to GTD that this take reminds me of — their chief difference to GTD is that everything is in the calendar. Essentially, “If it’s not in the calendar, it doesn’t exist.”

The idea is the same — get stuff out of your head. Have a capture tool you use throughout the day, review stuff at the end of the day. Stuff that’s not in your calendar goes into lists: “Not Doing Now” and “Never Doing Now” are two of them. “Not Doing Now” items eventually either make it into your calendar or into the “Never Doing Now” list.

The program I did — and I actually managed an event for them — was developmental at the time, and they’ve since probably made changes to some of the specifics, but it was damn good.

I suppose the biggest benefit GTD has got going for it is that it’s more “open source” in nature, with the kind of community that we’ve got going on 43 Folders and the Google Group.

Here’s their site: http://www.missioncontrol.com/index.php

If anyone’s interested, I know some of the management team members and could interview them to find out what they think of GTD, a community like ours, etc. Hell, might just do that for my own interests.

Anyone else heard of them, btw?