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How are you Mac folks doing reminders and structuring to-dos?
Scott | Nov 29 2007
As of Leopard, I'm a transplant from Entourage to the Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo. Over in Entourage for the past 7 years, I created a slick Zero Inbox system by using delayed reminders, using a cool combo of Applescripts that removed emails out of the Inbox until a time when I needed to deal with them. I haven't figured out a system yet in the Mail world. I'd love to hear how you Mac GTD'ers are using timers/reminders to postpone to-dos until the time you need to deal with them. I'm intrigued by OmniFocus, but it doesn't seem to be set up to do timers; more, it looks like a way to order ones to-dos in the sequence they need to be done. It might work, to switch from a popup timer world, to just remembering to look at a list. But before I dive in to OmniFocus, I'd love to hear how others are dealing with their to-dos using the Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo. Thanks for any ideas. 38 Comments
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Re: How are you Mac folks doing reminders and structuring to-dosSubmitted by abruenin on December 22, 2007 - 5:05pm.
I evaluted Midnight Inbox, OmniFocus and iGTD in detail. Midnight Inbox looks absolutely great and has some nice aspects the others don't offer (eg. the workflow and the Yak timer). But on the other hand, there is missing too much, it looks unready in some aspects. They are readying their 2.0beta and I think, there is much to come from midnight. But for now, it looks unready to me. OmniFocus looks good, but its nothing, the others don't have. Exept for the Perspectives, which I find extremely usefull. But the price is absurd (though they give a 50% discount until Jan 8th). Other comparable apps are in the 20-40$ range, charging $80 without any USP, exept for the perspectives, is a bad pricing IMHO. Finally I came to iGTD. It is free, it is well integrated with other popular Mac apps (eg. Quicksilver, MailTags, iCal, Adress Book ...). It also gives my priorities, though not pure GTD, I need them. I sync from iGTD to iCal which works great even with Leopards new Features and from there via MissingSync to my Treo. Only the links from tasks to contacts get lost, because iCal does not support them (I filed an enhancement request at Apple). So iGTD is it for me. And they are readying a version 2.0. Look at their site. This will be awesome. Can't wait to get it. » POSTED IN:
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