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A gtd shell script for managing lists. Yahoo – now we just need a AppleScriptStudio Interface for it.! Someone start a SourceFourge Project for the ultimate gtd app

A PDF whitepaper on gtd/gmail can be found at space-age wasteland

Ok, Ⅰ need to admit right at the start of this post: Ⅰ have not been too disciplined and have neglected my weekly review too often. Ⅰ just finished my WR at home today – after missing it by about 10 days. Working at a „foreign“ lab has not helped me get into establishing a gtd place the new office as Ⅰ was just hopping from free desk to free computer. My iBook was at home – duh. GTD where are you?

Which has made me realize one important thing: Ⅰ cannot rely on using a computer as my main GTD system. It only works when Ⅰ am using my Ibook on a daily basis – everything else makes things complicated and is anti-productive. GTD really lives on those easy-to-adhere-to-Rules and accessibility. So even an online version of a gtd system is nice, but not really the best thing for my day2day basis.

What are the alternatives?

1. Ⅰ can do my lists and everything that needs to be written down on paper. This would mean that my LabWork and all related projects will be in my lab notebooks, my private stuff in my private notebooks – is this feasible? There never is a common place for anything. Somehow having my @context lists even more complete as gtd systems. So instead of one GTD system Ⅰ now have a @home-system as well as an @lab system.
2. One global system with one notebook, which needs to be large enough to fit everything in and small enough to be carried around.
3. Or one global notebook with all the lists, projects etc. PLUS a collection of other notebooks for on the run. Still not the perfect solution.

Maybe Ⅰ should still have all my projects on my ibook, and just generate the @context lists as well as the @nextActions from it – and everything else will be in carry-around-notebooks, lab-notebooks. Then during my weekly reviews Ⅰ will update the Computer lists and create new @carry_around_context lists. Sounds like more work but might actually be useful.

Ⅰ am sure Ⅰ missed an important point in Dave Allen’s book – time to re-read it? There really should be specialized versions for different working requirements as well as „profiles“

Kevin asks the dreaded question to anyone fanatical enough about anything: Why?. One answer that came up in the google groups thread by David Meadows:

It works … the paradigm up to this point had been time management, which isn’t possible … Ⅰ can’t control time. Ⅰ can control tasks, though …

Getting things done on Devonthink,
originally uploaded by Pascal Venier.

This screenshot at Flickr shows a good setup for using GTD with DevonThink.