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