GTD Redux

An update on my Toolbox/Workflow posting from a couple months back.

After using Backpack for a couple months, it just wasn't working for me.  At this point, I can't even remember why it wasn't working, it was just lacking.  The same rang true in using Basecamp for personal task management, while Remember the Milk was fun, but not practical. Then along came vood2do, which more or less is the second coming for personal project/task management and GTD fanatics.  Tasks associated with dates? Craziness! Assigning tasks to multiple projects? Who ever heard of such a thing? Creating different views to see how tasks are integrated into different projects. But I liked my myopic view of the world. Email integration to add tasks? Phooey! Complete desktop and deadline management interfaces...how did i ever get anything done before?

Silliness aside...its a truly amazing little piece of web app. Although, Email/SMS reminders and an iCal feed would be nice additions.

Also, I went back to my good friend Bloglines to read news feeds (it was still there waiting for me after all those months of neglect).  Newsgator seemed to be buggy and sluggish, the browser subscribe button isn't as good at finding feeds, and the UI functionality just lost its appeal. The result was that I just wasn't reading much anymore. Just like the good old days, Bloglines is helping me once again transcend those moments of procrastination into productive reading jags.

As for calender, I switch over to Calendar Hub to have a web-based calendar. Not ideal, but gets the job done better than anything else I've seen (Google Cal....where are you?).

I'm loving Writely for taking notes and document sharing (especially for sharing docs with clients). Using MS Word only on the rare occasion these days.

As for billing and time tracking my consulting gigs, I'm using Billing Orchard: Simple, clean and provides many different invoicing options depending on your clients' needs (HTML, email, PDF). Some ability to customize one's invoice would be nice, but those invoices are looking far better than the Word docs I use to send out.

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Comments

[gitsul]

I started using 30 Boxes (30boxes.com) a couple of weeks ago. It is new and developing, but I think you'll find it does a lot and will do even more for GTD as it grows.