The GTD space has been heating up lately, and
Actiontastic seems to be the innovative leader, at least since I've been considering giving these apps a whirl. Jon Crosby, the developer,
added a Quicksilver action early last month, and now he's gone and raised the bar with iPod syncing. In a
long post that refreshingly summarizes what all this GTD (Getting Things Done) business is about, as well as his approach to the process with Actiontastic, Jon also lists a number of major improvements to this latest release, v0.83. The new iPod syncing feature works with any iPods that support notes, but it isn't the only update in this release. Check out the bottom of
Jon's post for the full detains on all the changes and tweaks, but read the whole thing if, like me, you've been trying to understand what all this GTD stuff is about. This is the first time I've really felt like someone explained the concepts well, and the fact that he's illustrating them with his app certainly doesn't hurt.
Actiontastic is a Universal Binary, still in beta and at least for the moment: free. I can't tell if Jon plans to charge for it when it goes 1.0 official. Anyone know for sure?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
12-19-2006 @ 2:50PM
kajoob said...
Crashes immediately on launch on intel macs. Won't open using Rosetta.
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12-19-2006 @ 2:55PM
Jon Crosby said...
@kajoob:
Thanks for checking out the app. This issue was reported yesterday along with a workaround (see the top of the blog entry and the comments). A complete fix is on track for publication this evening.
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12-19-2006 @ 3:41PM
Jon Crosby said...
@David:
The plan is to keep these betas free and back-to-back until 1.0. At that point, a price will be introduced but I haven't nailed down the exact amount.
Thanks for the post!
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12-20-2006 @ 2:24AM
Podophile said...
"...but read the whole thing if, like me, you've been trying to understand what all this GTD stuff is about."
If anyone wants to really understand GTD, they should read the actual book "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. You can get the gist of it from a summary on the internet, but to really understand how (and why) to impliment the entire system, there are really no short-cuts to just sitting down with the book for a couple of hours. It's worth it.
Thanks for the tip on this software, BTW.
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12-20-2006 @ 2:29AM
Jon Crosby said...
0.8.3b is now available and fixes the launch issue for fresh installs reported above.
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12-20-2006 @ 3:20PM
Steve Lang said...
Just want to add this is a very slick and usable app that lets you cut to the chase.
I don't like any ToDo apps that take longer to use than scribbling on a Post-It note, because it's easy to stop using them.
Actiontastic has a very solid feature set, and I think online synchronization is coming (which would be even better than iPod synchronization.)
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