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Year of the Killer Task Management App: Wrap Up | View from the Dock – A series of excellent, detailed reviews of GTD apps for the Mac, including iGTD, OmniFocus, Midnight Inbox and Things. I agree with Troy's veredict about the best one being Things. (tags: gtd mac productivity reviews software tools )
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The evolution of task management (Things review)

February 24th, 2008 · 19 Comments

My history of task management applications…
Since I started using GTD a few years ago, I have used several applications for the computer-based side of my task management (which is where almost everything else eventually ends up). In chronological order, I have used:

The standard applications on my (aging) Palm device together with JPilot on the desktop [...]

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Productivity tip: keep a handwritten log

January 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments

This is the best productivity tip I have received in a long time, and it is surprisingly simple:
Keep a handwritten, detailed log of your daily activities.

I have been using GTD for some time now, and my problem has always remained in the last step: actually doing the things in my actions list. I am easily [...]

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Gentoo ebuild for Thinking Rock 2.0gamma

April 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Version 2.0-gamma of Thinking Rock has been [released for Linux](http://www.thinkingrock.com.au/gamma20.php). I have written an ebuild for it, you can find it here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154978.

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TR2.0 gamma also works on Linux

April 12th, 2007 · No Comments

The latest [release](http://www.thinkingrock.com.au/gamma20.php) of
ThinkingRock has been officially made only for Mac, but I copied the
application directory ThinkingRock2.app to my Linux machine, ran the
ThinkingRock2.app/Contents/Resources/ThinkingRock/bin/thinkingrock
shell script, and it seems to work fine!

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Ooooh, shiny: Thinking Rock 2.0

April 12th, 2007 · 27 Comments

I have been using Thinking Rock for a while to manage my GTD process, and I really like it. Today, after a long wait, version 2.0gamma has finally been released, at least for the Mac. So as soon as I got home, I downloaded and started playing with it. Here is my initial set of [...]

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