This is good timing. I came back here (GTD forum) precisely because I have a new laptop; one that is unable to run a VM to maintain my Mac/Omnifocus instance.
My company is all-in on the O365 ecosystem, and I found it surprising that no real solution has emerged in all these years. I started with the Netcentrics GTDFO (I think that's what it was called) and really liked it. After its demise, I went to Apple (for corporate reasons), and am now back on MS Windows.
While there's a million ways to roll-your-own GTD system in O365, that's exactly the problem. There is no critical mass of users doing things the same way that would permit the development of scripts, best practices, in-depth documentation, etc. And, all the solutions are clunky, using tags, "put the project name in the title", copy & paste from one place to another, etc, etc to work around the lack of functionality in any single O365 app.
But, that's not fair. I'm a developer, and you could build a kick-ass productivity within O365 if you had a local database and MS Graph to tie all the relationships together. Outlook tasks were at least partially the basis for this in NetCentrics, and I was using them before, but it appears Microsoft is deprecating them in favour of ToDo, so there's no real way to tie everything together properly, and it seems most of the solutions everyone develops are designed to work around exactly that.
So why hasn't anyone done this? A 'single pane of glass' for my entire universe of things to do, without excessive friction.
Questions:
I ask the last question because part of my job is working as a mentor to startups, and it's not impossible that at some point one of them might be interested.
My company is all-in on the O365 ecosystem, and I found it surprising that no real solution has emerged in all these years. I started with the Netcentrics GTDFO (I think that's what it was called) and really liked it. After its demise, I went to Apple (for corporate reasons), and am now back on MS Windows.
While there's a million ways to roll-your-own GTD system in O365, that's exactly the problem. There is no critical mass of users doing things the same way that would permit the development of scripts, best practices, in-depth documentation, etc. And, all the solutions are clunky, using tags, "put the project name in the title", copy & paste from one place to another, etc, etc to work around the lack of functionality in any single O365 app.
But, that's not fair. I'm a developer, and you could build a kick-ass productivity within O365 if you had a local database and MS Graph to tie all the relationships together. Outlook tasks were at least partially the basis for this in NetCentrics, and I was using them before, but it appears Microsoft is deprecating them in favour of ToDo, so there's no real way to tie everything together properly, and it seems most of the solutions everyone develops are designed to work around exactly that.
So why hasn't anyone done this? A 'single pane of glass' for my entire universe of things to do, without excessive friction.
Questions:
- Have I missed a GTD application for MS Windows that is similar to Omnifocus or Netcentrics (no subscriptions, one time fee only)?
- Does anyone have any experience/comments on mylifeorganised? Seems like it might do the trick, but lacks 'deep' O365 integration.
- What would you pay a GTD app (think Omnifocus) for MS Windows, with deep integration into the O365 ecosystem?
I ask the last question because part of my job is working as a mentor to startups, and it's not impossible that at some point one of them might be interested.
