I mentioned earlier that I use the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology for organizing parts of my life. A lot of this is managed on my iMac. I have been using iGTD for a lot of it, but I’ve recently started looking at other GTD software. One tool in particular, is Things. It looks interesting, and a lot more straightforward than iGTD. I haven’t converted to it completely yet, but if you’re considering trying out GTD on the mac, you might want to give Things a look. I’ll report back more when I have a bit more substance (and perhaps screenshots) to add.

Another interesting tool that I looked at was Goal Enforcer , which approaches GTD mind-map style. When all was said and done, that approach didn’t work for me, though I can easily see it working for many people. The walkthrough and tutorial was a great introduction to GTD though, and presented it in a fairly straightforward way. The product is well worth considering, but the tutorial is definitely worth it.

There are a few other packages that I’ve looked at, and I’ll through some more information up here. GTD is big in the geek community, so there are lots of people taking a geek approach to implementing it. I find that for the moment, the tools that I like the best are the ones that I install on my mac, and can sync to my smartphone. There are a large number of web-based tools that I’ve peeked at, but none of them have grabbed me yet, so I haven’t gotten excited about them. If I could have a desktop tool that could publish to the web and sync to my smartphone, I’d get excited.

I’d be delighted to take a look at other GTD packages out there if people have suggestions.

Tags: Getting things done, gtd, GTD tools, imac, tools