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Susan Chroman
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I'm a MAC user and want to know if anyone can recommend a software program that works well with the Getting Things Done system
CSGiles;55227 said:If you upgrade to Leopard, the newest incarnation of the operating system you gain a new feature.
Calendar Events and Tasks are shared throughout the operating system and can be accessed in more than one place.
If you make a To Do item in iCal, that item also shows up in a special folder in Mail. In Mail, you can highlight any item in an email or a Note (see below for an explanation of Notes) and click on a button and it turns that highlight into a To Do item that shows up both in the To Do Folder in Mail and in the Task List in iCal.
Mail also has a new feature called Notes. Basically, a yellow pad that you can type things on that are stored in a special folder. You can email notes and/or save them in Mail as reference documents or reminders.
Notes works with To Do items as well. Therefore, you can create a Note for each project and list the action steps for it. Then, you can highlight the item representing the first step and turn it into a To Do item that will show up in iCal, assigned to any Calendar you want.
If you use dummy calendars in iCal to create the effect of Categories, you can select the Calendar you want the task to show up in easily.
For example. If I have a project "Teach Jim to Fly," I can create a note with that as a heading. Then, I can list the action items like "Call Jim to set up meeting" on that Note. If I highlight that item and click on a button, Mail will turn that into a To Do item. I can then select what Calender in iCal it will show up on (in this case my @Calls Calendar).
In this way your Project List is in Mail in the Notes folder, while your Context Lists are in both Mail (in the To Do folder) and iCal (as Tasks).
Therefore, it becomes easy to view your tasks by context (looking at the appropriate Calendar) or by Project (by looking at the Note).
As most GTD software involves somehow integrating and linking Tasks on the Context Lists with Projects, simply doing this using Leopard creates that identical functionality with no additional software.
Best wishes,
Scot Giles
Jazzthieves;55401 said:Would this work if I bought an iphone? Or is the iphone version stripped down in any way??