Getting Things Done with KGTD
October 30th, 2005 | by Tim Wilson |In the ten days or so since my first post on the subject I’ve read and now re-read most of David Allen’s Getting Things Done. I’ve spent hours at this point clearing my desk of clutter and my brain of all of the things tasks and projects I’ve been trying to keep straight in my head. My action lists are getting populated, my inboxes are empty, and I’m pleased enough with my progress to keep with the program. I stopped to consider how many different pieces of hardware and software I have to try to track all of these things for my work and home life. The hardware: 15″ PowerBook, 12″ PowerBook, Palm Tungsten C, and a Sony Ericsson T610. The software: Apple Mail and iCal, Life Balance, FastTrack Schedule 8, NoteTaker, OmniOutliner Professional, and Kinkless GTD (KGTD). I suspect that I’m not alone in this proliferation of personal productivity gadgets and applications. It’s time to prune that list!
I never use the Palm anymore now that my phone (and even my iPod) can show me my upcoming schedule. I travel with my laptop wherever I go so I don’t have any reason to enter information on that tiny keyboard. Time to find someone at work who could use it. As for the software I don’t think I need anything besides Mail, iCal, Omni Outliner, and KGTD. The rest has to go.
That brings me to the real subject of this post, the Kinkless GTD system. KGTD is just a set of Applescripts that can be applied to OmniOutliner Professional to create an elegant GTD system that syncs with iCal. Read the Intro to KGTD article for more details. The scripts are open source, but the they require OmniOutliner Pro which has an educational price of about $40. You can get a free trial license for OmniOutliner so there’s no reason not to give this system a try if you’re in the market for a tool to help you get things done.
Tags: ipod, Open source
2 Responses to “Getting Things Done with KGTD”
By Michele Sabatier on Oct 31, 2005 | Reply
You might enjoy the 43 Folders blog which in largely on GTD/productivity, has a wiki, a Google group and so forth.
Unrelated: By the way, I was on NSBA staff (the conference blog) at T+L2 and had a conflict during your blogs & wikis in the classroom session. Will that perhaps be podcast? But that’s where I found your blog, and have enjoyed it very much. Thanks for the work you’re doing.
By Graham Wegner on Oct 31, 2005 | Reply
I know you operate in a Mac world, Tim but I couldn’t get by anymore without my Pocket PC (nearly 2 years old now). Because I am on the move a lot around my school, it is invaluable for right then and there type of notations, scheduling etc. I also enjoy downloading blogs to it so I can read them of a evening without being totally antisocial to my wife! And quite often I will compose a blog entry on it as I move around the house or work and then cut’n'paste into my blog later. And what better way to listen to the Savvy Technologist podcasts - saves me buying an iPod!!