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Hawk Wings lists 10 Mac OS X tools for Getting Things Done
Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings has compiled a list of ten Mac OS X tools that can help you implement the Getting Things Done philosophy in the way you work. The tools are broken down into three categories: email clients, dedicated GTD apps and web-based solutions for that ultimate cross-platform effect. Mail.app, of course, starts off the list. Once combined with a few Smart Folders and the powerful Mail Act-on and MailTags plugins, Mail.app can become a most powerful GTD tool indeed. Other featured tools include kGTD (an OmniOutliner Pro template), a Todo.txt script for the ultimate in plain-text GTD, EasyTask Manaager (a stand-alone app without the GTD learning curve), iCommit (a web-based PHP tool), Backpack, Gmail and even wikis.
Check out Hawk Wings' list for more ideas and tools to help you, well, get things done.
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Christopher Williams said 4:13PM on 7-15-2006
Please stop calling Mail mail.app. This is quite possibly the most annoying trend to hit the Mac web as of late. You don't write Preview.app or Safari.app, nor do you see Windows users writing Outlook.exe, why write Mail.app?
If you want to differentiate it from other email applications (as if there were tons of them called "Mail") write Apple Mail, or OS X Mail, but for God's sake, please stop with the mail.app business. It's really annoying.
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Christian said 4:33PM on 7-15-2006
You know who's really "getting things done"? "The David," that's who. He's getting things done because he has a pool full of gold coins now that he's managed to sell a bunch of people the latest fad in "personal productivity."
Here's a hint: people got tons of shit done before GTD was around.
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Wry Cooter said 4:37PM on 7-15-2006
That is such an odd continuum, the GTD folks. You definitely see how the methods improve efficiency and kill endless procastination for some, while you also see it have the opposite meta-effect - the new time killer is all the organizational skills and methods they have created, and the time they spend proselytizing them.
I mean, if you spend an hour shopping for your favorite day planner, or setting up some similar rube goldberg device just to create an agenda for yourself, that is an hour you could have spent Getting Things Done.
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David Chartier said 4:51PM on 7-15-2006
We use "Mail.app" because it's a lot more search engine friendly; that's it. We know it's Apple Mail, or simply: Mail. But if you google 'mail', you'll turn up with a heckuva lot of other results that have nothing to do with Apple's Mail.
It's just a compromise to help people track down information easier. Nothing more or less.
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Christopher said 5:08PM on 7-15-2006
How about tuaw.website. ;-)
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Solipsism said 7:14PM on 7-15-2006
Continuing with what David was saying....
Chris Williams, the reason Mac users don't append Safari and Preview with a '.app' is that it's easily discernible. How many programs out there have the word Preview or Safari in their name.
I do blame Apple for not being more creative. Perhaps Leopard will address this, though I doubt it. At least we referring calling Safari as Browser.app
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south said 11:58PM on 7-15-2006
i had a lot of spare time today with which to get things done. made a big list, typed it all into voodoopad... then got a couple of beers from the fridge and surfed the internet instead. ah...
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Steve M said 5:29AM on 7-16-2006
@7
Had ya beat. I just got up and had the beer. Avoided the whole "Things I should do" list, as it is even more annoying than Mail.app...
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Hawk said 8:42AM on 7-16-2006
Why don't you boys hop on over to 43folders.com and troll there? I'm sure it'd be more productive, seeing as this kind of posting is the POINT of that blog, instead of just a random news post.
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