Hawk Wings lists 10 Mac OS X tools for Getting Things Done

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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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...

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...

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

How about tuaw.website. ;-)

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.

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.

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.

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.