On 16 oct. 06, at 13:39, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
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.
This sounds very nice, I'll have to check it out.
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).
I use this a bit, but I'm pretty sure this could be done in some other way.
Most importantly, there is a converter that will take your kGTD file and convert it to the GTDAlt format.
Ah this is great. Does it also preserves the archive (as an history of what was done and when)?
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.
Very nice. So it would make integrating with the Palm fairly simple.
Another simple solution would be a way to export the list of tasks to files whose name is the context. This would be sufficient for a read- only integration with the Palm (which is how I use the iCal integration of kGTD today because of some bug that prevents "done" status on the Palm to be propagated back to kGTD).
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.
Switching GTD systems is never a small matter. The fact that you have a way to import an existing kGTD setup makes your option very appealing. So if I do the switch, I'll definitely report back.
Thanks a lot for your detailed explanation,
Alan
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