TaskPaper Rocks GTD
Right now, I love TaskPaper by Hog Bay Software. It’s by far the best Getting Things Done (GTD) application I’ve used. Everything about the philosophy of Getting Things Done by David Allen rings true to me. But the philosophy gets lost in translation when moving to electronic applications for some reason. Every application I’ve tried has too much stuff to fiddle with which means you’re spending more time worrying about the system and less time getting things out of your head and into a system you trust.
I have tried kGTD for OmniOutliner, I’ve tried iGTD, and I’ve been beta-testing Omni’s new OmniFocus for the last several months. OmniFocus was close for me, but I didn’t like that I had to keep my OmniFocus file in the Application Support folder. I wanted to keep it on my iDisk so I could travel with my tasks. But there’s no way to do that in OmniFocus. iGTD is just way too over the top for my needs.
The best answer is often the simplest one. I started using TaskPaper and immediately bought a license. Like smarter people than me have already said, it provided a solution for a problem I didn’t know I had. Once I fired it up it became painfully obvious that my other methods were not working. I love the simplicity of it and I would like to thank the developer for getting back to basics.
If you use the GTD system, I would highly recommend giving this application a whirl.
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