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Multiplatform GTD Tool?

Hi!

I was wondering if there were a good recommendation for a multiplatform GTD application. I'd like to be able to have my system span both home and work, be mostly digital, and at the same time not be network-dependant.

My situation is thus:

My hardware at work is a Windows laptop. My home system is a MacBook. Bridging the two is an iPhone and a USB drive.

I am reluctant to use anything that is web-based, as some of the tasks are "sensitive work things" (client names, etc.), that compliance-type-folks would frown upon putting in the public internet.* On the other hand, I do want to be able to suck information in from other tools (Outlook, Mail.app, the web, etc.), so a completely analog solution isn't right on the other side.

I tried Thinking Rock, and will stick with that if it's my best play. However, I tried the OmniFocus beta, and fell in love. Is that going to be ported to Windows? Are there other good multi-platform options? Are there platform-specific tools that play well together?

*I will grant that there are risks with information once it leaves the office on that USB drive. However, there are steps that can be taken to mitigate it, it is not subject to any terms of service out of my control, and it lacks the prima facie ickiness ("you put our client info on google's servers?!?").

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Emacs?

A bit of a steep learning curve and a little tricky to setup, but Emacs runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Using Org-mode in Emacs gives good GTD capability and it has several file linking options to work with external files.

I'm using EmacsW32 on 3 Windows PCs and AquaMacs on a Mac. These versions of Emacs install directly to Windows or OSx respectively. Directory structures are duplicated on each computer and they are synced using SyncbackSE on Windows and Chronosync on the Mac. This is either through a 16gb USB flashdrive or via a NAS depending on which computer.

Email is kept in sync via IMAP and FastMail, and Plaxo keeps address books and calendars in sync. FoxMarks in Firefox keeps bookmarks in sync between all computers.

Still getting all this working, and as I say Emacs takes a bit of learning, but it is incredibly powerful and versatile.

Graham

 
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