GTD: nextaction
If you’re a fellow member of the GTD cult, you really need to check out nextaction. Like Tiddly Wiki it’s a DHTML app can run locally off your desktop (meaning no server needed, meaning can work regardless if you’re online or off). However, nextaction is much more geared towards GTD, allowing you to create & place actions not just in contexts but also in projects. Very, very useful when you want to a two dimensional cut of your tasks.
Despite being fairly new, it has a good “feel” to it. The most recent version 0.13 runs cleanly on a Mac now too. There are some caveats: you need to manually save your tasks and you need to stay away from the back button (big pita and a little scary the thought of losing data), but Steve Yen, the author, mentioned he is working both auto-save and syncing to a central server. Those not in dire need of a better GTD system, might hold off on adapting until either or those are complete.
A very promising application and an excellent demonstration of how the next wave of the web is about interaction not just consumption.
July 17th, 2005 at 11:18 am
I’ve been doing GTD. It rocks.
July 17th, 2005 at 11:39 pm
Ben has dranken the koolaid! Awesome!
Which parts do you use? (BTW, have you joined the GTD mailing list at work?)
July 18th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Primarily I just maintain a list of categorized tasks that I review often.
This lowers my stress level a lot since pretty much everything that I need to do is in there.
The only downside is that if somehow I’ve missed something, I will ignore it for weeks. :)