By now I’m probably preaching to the choir, but CNN has a nice feature on David Allen and Getting Things Done that’s worth reading, especially if you’re not quite sure what everyone’s talking about when they mention GTD, Psychic RAM, and so on. Also nice to see that the article quotes Ethan Schoonover, designer of Kinkless GTD, the Mac program I use to keep track of all my projects.
David Allen on CNN
February 17th, 2007 | Productivity
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You don’t know from your online travels to productivity sites if there is a Windows program that’s considered the best functional analogue to Kinkless GTD.
There was supposed to be a question mark at the end of that sentence.
Here’s a link to a bunch of programs, though I haven’t heard anyone make the direct comparison with Kinkless for any of them: http://wiki.jeffsandquist.com/.....Tools.html
I used to use a program called Life Balance that is now available for Windows. The creators intend the program to be a “life coach”, creating dynamic to-do lists based on how you prioritize various goals. That’s an interesting idea, but I didn’t like how it all happened behind the scenes (and I’m too mercurial not to always have to mess with my priority settings). I ended up doing what a lot of people do and switched off that function by using GTD templates created by another user. This made it really similar to Kinkless, actually, though it still feels clunkier and takes more to get going.
Here’s a comment about LB from a thread related to your question on 43folders:
“In defense of Life Balance and the effort involved in setup, there are templates available for download to implement GTD using Life Balance, with preset values for setting, location, importance, etc., on common Next Actions so you can get going more easily. I found them a huge value in moving to LB (I had tried LB once before, and not stuck with it). There are some problems in the LB interface as Carina notes, but I think the strengths easily outnumber the weaknesses of this program. But read the LB manual–it will make life easier (and it is well-written, too.)
The templates got me going enough so modifying the settings for my particular needs was much less of a hassle. If you go to
http://www.llamagraphics.com/r.....index.html
you can see downloadable templates for a variety of uses. The starter template file by “ratz” (a longtime LB user) includes GTD templates. There is also a lot of discussion re implementing GTD on the LB user forums.
And LB works on Windows, Macs, and Palm OS, to address Gary’s concern.”
Thanks!
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