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GhostAction – Getting Things Done

Reviewed by Robert Pritchett

Developer: Jacob Wallström

Ghost Park Software

http://ghostparksoftware.com/

Released: February 17, 2007.

$20 USD

Blog: http://ghostparksoftware.com/blog/

Strengths: Cocoa-based (made for Mac) GTD.

Weaknesses: There are a few more betas since 1.x

What They Say

Ghost Action is a new Mac application for keeping track of your to-dos using the simple and stress-free "Getting Things Done" method.

  • Group to-dos according to project or context
  • Synchronize with any iSync compatible device such as a PDA, an iPod or a phone
  • Both contexts and projects are synchronized
  • Full two-way synchronization with iCal and .Mac without iCal running
  • Attractive and easy to use Cocoa user interface
  • Full keyboard navigation
  • Printing of to-do lists
  • Developed for Mac only

Instead of having a single list full of unrelated to-dos, Ghost Action gives you different views of your to-dos, grouped according to context or project. You will use the project view when planning the next action for your projects. A project can be, for example Repaint bedroom or Review report. You will use the context view to get an overview of what can be done at the current context. A context refers to locations or situations, such as Home, Computer, Work and Errands, that are suitable for doing a certain kind of to-dos.

Ghost Action features full two-way synchronization with iCal, which enables synchronization of your to-dos to any iSync compatible device such as a phone or PDA, so that you may access your to-dos even when you are on the move. Users, who don’t use a portable device, can achieve the same goal byprinting their to-do lists.

Getting Things Done® (GTD) is a simple method for managing your to-do lists invented by David Allen that recently has become very popular. Everything you need to do is listed as actions. Unlike many other methods Getting Things Done doesn’t emphasize priorities. Instead, actions are grouped according to the context they can be performed at and the project they belong to. Possible future actions are typically ignored until they can be acted upon. This makes GTD stress-free, simple, and attractive even to people who normally wouldn’t use a time management method.

What I Say

Did you even know there was a genre of software known as “Getting Things Done”?

http://macupdate.com/search.php?os=macosx&keywords=gtd&button.x=0&button.y=0

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/16/what-todo-gtd-yet-again/

Here is a quick-and-dirty to-do list application made especially for the Mac provided as “Shareware”. It synchs with iCal or any PDA. It does it well.

Precise. Oh, and when things are due, they go red. Like this review. ;^)


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