Getting it Done

GTD (Getting Thing Done) is all the rage these days, and Geeks love them ‘puters, but what options are there for GTD loving Geeks? Let’s take a look at what options are available to get thing done….for the price of free.

Doit.im

Doit.im is a very useful free peice of software that runs using adobe air; meaning it’s cross platform. It’s features include

• An inbox to add tasks quickly
• Ability to group tasks in projects
• Add contacts to mark individual tasks to them
• Ability to sync to the server
• Much, much more

Remember The Milk

Remember the milk is a web based to-do list application that has features that include:

• The ability to get reminders anywhere e.g. through SMS, IM, skype and E-mail
• The ability to tag tasks
• View tasks on a map
• And mooo-re (get it)

teuxdeux.com

teuxdeux is another web based to-do list application that is extremely easy to use and is very well designed, but lacks many features of the other mentioned applications. It’s features include

• The ability to add tasks to future days
• uh, oh, that’s it really. Did I mention it’s easy to use

tadalist

tadalist is yet another web based to-do list application that has the ability to group tasks and share them with friends. It’s very simple but very useful.

Todo.txt

Todo.txt is a bash script that works from the a command line like interface, it has very useful features that include:

• Add to-do’s
• Group to-do’s
• search to-do’s
• Prioritise to-do’s

Todoist

Yes, you guessed todoist is another web based application that is ‘fast and easy to use’. It features:

• A built in calendar
• The ability to create sub-projects and sub items
• Reminders
• Labels

Free GTD articles

Okay, so it’s not software but it’s still useful. Free articles by the GTD master himself David allen: