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iGTD is a fantastic GTD app - and i’ve tried em all (kinkless, actiontastic, etc, etc…). it’s made by a 26yo polish developer, and it’s the first Mac app he’s ever written. very impressive. there’s been a rash of GTD apps coming out (mostly for Mac), and this is the first really usable one that i’ve found. Merlin Mann, the GTD evangelist, also likes it.

basically, the idea is this: information and things “todo” are coming at you left and right in life & the workplace. the GTD philosophy says “get it out of your head” and “put it all in a trusted system”. that system can be pen & paper, index cards, whatever…for the uber-nerds it’s a GTD application like iGTD.

what’s great about iGTD is that it makes the 2 main steps of GTD flow really easily:

1) “Collect”: it’s effortless to create tasks with links to URLs, files or email messages. Dump them all into the “Inbox”. While working in any application, if you think of something you can pull up the Quicksilver plugin, type in the task, and it will be whisked away to the Inbox.

2) “Process”: periodically (at least daily) you process all the tasks in your inbox and assign a Context, Project, and/or Priority. This puts them into neat little buckets for you to knock off at the right time & context.

if this sounds like something that might help you out, i suggest reading the book first, or at least the GTD wikipedia entry.