Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Console based GTD tool: gtdshell

There is a loud buzz about GTD, a productivity method by David Allen, so I guess everyone interested in productivity improvement is already heard about it. What he says is the best tool for gtd is paper and pen, however there are many software out there both free and for sale. You can use one of them instead. But probably the worst thing you would prefer to do is to design your own gtd software and, yes, that's what I did. Here I present gtdshell.

Why I need it? Simply, I didn't like the other tools. Most of them are online and I am not 100% connected to the internet and I don't want every detail of my personal life to be somewhere on the web. Well, maybe except gmail. Most of these tools are not flexible enough, I can't use vi to edit them, someday I want to be able to access it with my openmoko, etc. So I decided to store my next actions in text files and started to develop an application which I can somewhat easily process it.

Finally, I think it is at a usable point, though you still need a text editor sometimes, here goes the first published revision. You can download the tarball from the gtdshell web page or check out from the subversion for the bleeding edge. Feedbacks are appreciated.

Have fun.

2 comments:

emre said...

Although it is an ad for a commercial product I am not gonna remove it, just because this the first comment I get ;)

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the info! Outlook Track-It is a very cool GTD tool, if you have any info on that. its a small plugin for outlook that flags emails for followups.

Label Cloud