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Posted by Hugh
Apr 3, 2008 at 09:57 AM
Apologies: on GTD’s cultural specificity, not Chris but Graham, who also said much that I’d agree with on GTD’s occupation-specificity as well.
Posted by Matty
Apr 3, 2008 at 01:56 PM
Hugh wrote:
Unfortunately the book on Getting
>Things Written hasn’t been published yet…
>
Amen to that!
Posted by Hugh
Apr 3, 2008 at 06:01 PM
What I should have added is that although the book has not been published, the blog has! Here is the link: http://www.antonyjohnston.com/gtw/
Posted by Robert
Apr 3, 2008 at 06:06 PM
Sandro Perotti wrote:
>I am far from being an expert, both in
>GTD and software, and reading the posts in this forum I realize that my needs are rather
>simple compared to most of the members here.
>
>Having said that, I did a search for a
>good task manager that would support GTD, and for my needs the best I found is
>uOrganized (http://www.uorganized.com). It doesn’t have all the features mentioned here,
>but it does have most of them and -even better- the developers have been open to every
>single suggestion I’ve made so far.
>
>I guess a disclaimer is on order: I have nothing
>to do with them. I am just a registered user. Of course I want them to do well and keep
>improving the product, but without any $tring$ attached… :)
>
>Best regards to
>all
Sandro, don’t worry, you won’t pay for new features, you’ve paid once for a life license with free upgrades…for life :)
uOrganized is still young (almost one year), but we’ve put some hard work to reach ‘older guys’ in usability and features, even overtake some of them.
From my experience with GTD and from the conversations with our users, i can say the this method is extremely flexible and it’s interpreted very different from person to person, but the main concept is understood. I don’t have nothing with this, being so flexible, users can create their own GTD like system easily and adapt to their work and life since they follow the GTD idea and results in a productivity increase/easier life.
I met users who are so addicted to GTD implementation and details that forgets what Allen wanted to achieve, they are so focused on every detail resulting in lost hours just to put some simple things up in the system… and they say…“oh, it’s hard, i can’t make it work, i think i need to read the book again”.Why? don’t try to implement the perfect system, just do what works for you, but make in such way that will help you: - stop procrastinate, increase productivity, manage your time which all are in fact a result of tasks accomplishment.
This is what GTD and time management software should do, help users to ‘design’ their own ‘better life’ system and uOrganized it’s a very good assistant, i don’t say this just because i’m one of the developers, but most of our users say.
Robert
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Apr 4, 2008 at 02:58 PM
Sandro, I installed uOrganized, but it will not run on my computer. Windows shuts it down, says there is a problem, and will seek a solution. I uninstalled and reinstalled, and restarted the computer, and still a problem. Did you have any difficulty?
Thanks.
Daly
Sandro Perotti wrote:
>
>>- I’ve
>>yet to see a good software implementation of a working version of GTD. MLO is
>probably
>>the best I’ve seen so far, but it still didn’t work for me. I’m always
>interested in
>>developments in this area because I think many of the basic
>underlying GTD concepts
>>are sound, practical and, yes, common sense. In one form or
>another I think it is here to
>>stay.
>>
>>Jack
>
>I am far from being an expert, both in
>GTD and software, and reading the posts in this forum I realize that my needs are rather
>simple compared to most of the members here.
>
>Having said that, I did a search for a
>good task manager that would support GTD, and for my needs the best I found is
>uOrganized (http://www.uorganized.com). It doesn’t have all the features mentioned here,
>but it does have most of them and -even better- the developers have been open to every
>single suggestion I’ve made so far.
>
>I guess a disclaimer is on order: I have nothing
>to do with them. I am just a registered user. Of course I want them to do well and keep
>improving the product, but without any $tring$ attached… :)
>
>Best regards to
>all
>
>
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