A model for GTD in iCal

Hello. Still trying to figure out how to use this site/where to post. I do love this site and wanted to say that you guys have certainly fed my lust for the ScanSnap with my fantasies of a paper-less office.

I have squirrely phases that repeat like clockwork. An abortive pass at creative drawing, an oddly devoted infatuation with the early ELO, and the sudden yen to play with my old Palm V—each reappears every 7 or 8 months, and each, in its fashion, passes in less than a week. Turn, turn, turn.

Last time that the Palm bug bit me, I learned about SplashShopper, the heir apparent to my previously favorite PDA app, JShopper. Both Palm apps excel at tracking Have/Need items for a bunch of different stores, which you can customize to your heart’s content. This means, for example, “2% Milk??? can be associated with Safeway, Trader Joe’s, and Costco, as well as the bodega around the corner.  So you have a persistent, reusable, totally contextual shopping list for wherever you happen to be. Best use of the Palm ever, this shopping list tracking stuff. But, SplashShopper attracted me with two big additions.

Slate's special issue on procrastination. - - Slate Magazine

Slate is running a special issue this week on procrastination, a series of stories on why we waste time, what we do when we waste time, and how different types of people waste their time.

My favorites of the bunch so far:

Standard GTD File Format, Anyone?

• RubyForge: OmniGraffle parser: Project Info - "This project provides a parser that can read OmniGraffle documents and present them to Ruby programs in a convenient way." [via:43f Forum/Carla]
• Comic Book Fonts | Home - "Get as many of our individual fonts as you like for half price through August 6, 2007" Beautiful faces — I want ’em all. [via: Andy Ihnatko]
• ATPM 13.02 - Next Actions: A Survey of the GTD App Landscape - I must have missed this wonderful overview when it came out. Unlike the unholy armies of Digg-alicious GTD listsmiths, Ed annotates his selections with insight and care. Good on ya, Ed.
• Grep in Project command for TextMate - "... combines the speed of grep with a decent, well-integrated UI." [via: twitter/al3x]
• How to Sleep 4 Hours per Night - I really don't get this obsession with wanting to sleep less. It's like wanting less steak or less The Wire or less french kissing. Just lost on me why you'd want to truncate one of life's most sublime pleasures.

Levenger Analogy - Your thoughts?

Good evening everyone, I'm pretty new to GTD, switched to Mac about 8 months ago. I'm reading the book now and am interested to know if there's a site that has reviewed most of the GTD apps out there. There seem to be a good handful of apps (OmniFocus, iGTD, MidnightBeep) and I'm having a REAL hard time trying to decide which might be best for me. Right now I use Remember the Milk on my iPhone (very nice!), but I find that most GTD apps sync to iCal (events and tasks), therefore I can't see my tasks on the iPhone.

I enjoyed tuqqer’s detailed review of how he’s tweaked GTD to work best for him over the past year.