Task managers - what should they be able to do?

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Apr 1, 2008 at 08:19 PM

Chris, you are right. GTD can be done with, or adapted to many kinds of software and/or paper planners.

And it is all mostly common sense stuff—one common sense idea after another. But the problem with common sense is that it is not always all that common!

Daly

Chris Thompson wrote:
>Graham, your impressions of the book are similar to mine. I found it quite a slog to get
>through, meandering and ponderously written, though there are a few useful ideas.
> >
>I think it’s interesting that when Allen wrote the book he was using a Palm Pilot,
>which only had very crude support for his ideas… all you could do with a todo on the
>Palm was put it into a single category, so you could either categorize by context or
>project, but not both (and using Palm categories for projects was pretty crummy since
>there was a maximum number of categories you could create). This suggests to me that
>the fancy software support for GTD that many people are seeking is basically
>“CRIMPing on steroids”. The core task management ideas in the book are common sense
>and could be implemented with any system.
> >—Chris