More on GTD.

Anyone following my earlier post on GTD should watch this: GTD guy David Allen talking at Google on the basics - very entertaining, very clear, much better than I explain it.

N.B. should this link disappear for any reason, I have it as a .mp4 - yell if you need.

GTD apps for the Mac

So. In my quest to re-GTD my life, I need to find an app that will handle my projects/actions/etc. There's a lot more to pick from than there used to be, and so I need to decide what features I can't live without:

• Collect inbox items from Email
• Collect inbox items from phone/PDA todos
• Collect inbox items from documents (e.g. need to read/edit this file)
• Attach documents/emails to actions
• Sync action lists to phone/PDA

There's probably more of these, but that'll do for starters.

Of the ones I know about, Midnight Beep Inbox fits all these, BUT I don't trust the task management interface, as previously discussed. Inbox v2 promises to fix all this, but the first Beta isn't out till Feb 1, and I'd really rather not wait that long.

The main alternative options are iGTD, OmniFocus and Actiontastic. I shall be weighing these up over the course of the evening and adding to this post.

[Later.]

OmniFocus wins. Largely because I like their range of products, and the rest of the stuff they write is pretty damn bulletproof. iGTD suffers from v2 being Leopard-only, and being written by someone whose first language isn't English - the menu entries just... grate a little. Actiontastic isn't, as far as I can tell, finished to its author's satisfaction.

As for Inbox? My shareware fee covers v2, so I shall at least audition it in February if/when I get Leopard. But for now? OmniFocus.

And now? To de-stuff.