Every six months or so I look at Zoot, become intimidated, think about pretty screens, RTF, colour, and then close Zoot.

I have not been happy with my ability to get a task set up that I like in other programs. I want to use a GTD format. But I have always thought it would mean moving a lot of stuff around, and cloning it. So I don't really get down to it.

This morning I opened up Zoot. Looking at the task section, and seeing what the Admiral has already done, with some trial and error, and only one brief look at the help file, I managed to set up project and context-based next action views. It really seems to work. I have put in one task, and presto, it showed up where it should in the Admiral's views, as well as the ones I created.

I think I like it. I think it will do what I want, which is to be able to brainstorm, plan, and do task assignements from one place without a lot of fuss.

Guess I'd better send the Admiral some money.

Daly

Daly

Daly,

Welcome to Zooterhood. It is definitely one of those programs that is difficult to appreciate until you uncover its many powerful features. I think that if I hadn't begun using Zoot in an earlier incarnation, when it was a bit more straight forward, I probably wouldn't have picked it up. But every day it seems I learn some new feature that makes me marvel at how much thought Tom Davis put into his program.

Just in case you hadn't seen it, there is a GTD template available in the files section of the Zoot Yahoo forum.

Good luck. I will be interested in learning how you like Zoot after you've used it for some time.

Steve Z.