[TxMt] GTD vs GTD2 vs GTDalt?

[Charilaos Skiadas]

Hi Alan,
On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:45 AM, Alan Schmitt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm currently using kGTD as my tool of choice, but a pure text- 
> based solution looks very attracting. I see there are several  
> bundles mentioning GTD and I was wondering what were their  
> differences and if they were all maintained.

I'll let Mike Mellor talk about GTD and GTD2, I'll focus on GTDAlt  
which I wrote. I was using kGTD before that, so it is to a large  
extend influenced by that. In particular, you can have projects and  
subprojects, and if a project's name starts with an exclamation  
point, it is permanent, meaning that it does not get marked as  
completed once all the actions in it are completed. There is also a  
system similar to the Quicksilver integration, where instead you use  
quicksilver, with essentially the same syntax as for kGTD, to add  
actions into a kind of "inbox file". Then from within GTDAlt, you can  
ask for the inbox file to be processed, and the respective actions  
are moved to their appropriate projects, or to a temp.gtd file if  
they have no projects associated with them.

The one thing that doesn't work as well as expected is the "reset/ 
repeat" functionality that kGTD offered, though if I recall there is  
something similar (been a while, and I don't use that feature that  
much).

Most importantly, there is a converter that will take your kGTD file  
and convert it to the GTDAlt format.

There is limited integration with Remind and iCal. The iCal  
integration is not  very stable yet, though I think a couple of  
people use it. Improving that is one of my goals for the bundle.

> Additionally, is someone using one of these bundles and somehow  
> synchronizing their GTD setup to a Palm? If so, I'd be delighted to  
> hear about it.

I don't have a Palm, so I can't really comment on that. Does this  
synchronizing go through iCal? In that case, it should be  
theoretically possible.

> Thanks a lot,

You do bring up an important point though, namely this plethora of  
bundles for essentially the same task. Part of the reason for this is  
that they all have pretty different workflows. There is some  
discussion among the developers as to how best resolve the problem  
that users like yourself face, so any feedback from users of the  
bundles will be helpful. At the very least, it would be helpful to  
find out how many people use each of these bundles.

> Alan

Haris