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Posted by Graham Rhind
Mar 31, 2008 at 04:02 PM
Ah, good point Daly! I should also have mentioned for (my) list: locally based (i.e., not online). Apart from the dangers of my personal information being hacked from a site, I won’t even consider trusting a company enough to be always there. If a developer stops developing their offline task manager, I can export my data into something else because the software won’t suddenly stop working. That’s not the case when my data is on somebody else’s server, which could be offline tomorrow and every day after that.
You do bring up in me a nostalgia for my old paper-based Filofax, though! I wish they could be synced with my Palm ;-)
Graham
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Graham, I like the web-based program given with my signature.
>
>I am also using
>Central Desktop http://www.centraldesktop.com , also a web-based program, to see
>how it goes.
>
>Part of this is crimping on my part because I prefer to do a lot of this
>stuff on paper.
>
>For example, I have a wonderful Circa notebook from Levenger in
>Boston that has plastic sheets with 96 pockets for conventionally sized index cards
>to be inserted vertically. Levenger has its own take on the index card—lined on both
>sides, vertically. I love this system because nothing gets lost in it, and it is
>helpful to me as a pre-planning step, plus keeping notes temporarily from journals or
>books. http://www.levenger.com/
>
>Daly
>Try This Great Web-Based GTD
>Site:
>http://www.nozbe.com/a-A3F240E3
Posted by Vladimir Radmilovic
Mar 31, 2008 at 09:35 PM
I’m founder of Dataland Software, developers of Agenda At Once.
Manfred wrote:
>You probably looked at Agenda at Once. See
>http://www.agendaatonce.com/features.html
Manfred, thank you for mentioning AAO.
Graham Rhind wrote:
>Agenda at Once comes very close,
>but there’s a bug which stops recurring tasks from recreating themselves in the
>current version (1.2.3 I believe), which the developer says will be corrected in the
>next release.
Yes, this bug was actual in v3.0.2, but starting with v3.0.3 released several days ago, it shouldn’t be a problem anymore.
Your features list is really impressive, and although AAO doesn’t cover all, it might satisfy your needs. Feel free to try it and let me know for any ideas or problems you have.
Posted by Cassius
Mar 31, 2008 at 10:06 PM
Graham Rhind wrote:
>...You do bring up in me a nostalgia for my old paper-based Filofax, though! I wish they could be synced with my Palm ;-)
>
I think Filofax is still around. Many years ago it bought the US version, Lefax. For a while, I kept college notes, etc. in Lefax. I still have the binders, including the double-ring ones. Now that I’m retired, I keep my plans/tasks and my may-need-at-any-time info in a shirt-pocket planner. It also serves as a money bely, toothpick holder, etc., etc.
-c
Posted by Jack Crawford
Apr 1, 2008 at 02:59 AM
Graham Rhind wrote:
>Thanks for the inputs up to now! Just some responses in the meantime:
>
>>Chris Thompson wrote:
>>I honestly think “GTD” is a
>liability
>
>I agree entirely! I wrote in an Amazon review of the book that I thought the
>system flawed and only applicable to certain people in certain
>circumstances.
Interesting observations. Maybe I’ll start a new thread on this. I don’t think we’ve really covered GTD in much detail here.
Graham, can you point me to your Amazon review? I don’t have time to wade through the hundreds of comments.
Jack
Posted by Jack Crawford
Apr 1, 2008 at 06:35 AM
Graham Rhind wrote:
I also have a problem with using Outlook as the basis of task
>management mainly because of its strange behaviour in deleting an associated e-mail
>when deleting a task. I know the task can be marked as completed and not deleted, but
>this stuffs the task manager full of completed tasks which can never be deleted.
>Strange and utterly annoying.
Graham
If you drag & drop an Outlook email onto the tasks panel, it gives you the option of copying the email as a text or attachment. If you subsequently delete the task, the original email remains untouched.
Or I am misunderstanding your point?
Jack