The developers of ThinkingRock--my current favorite GTD (Getting Things Done) tool--have released a Gamma version of their 2.0 version. But only for Mac! "Woe is me!," said I. At least until I noticed that ZZamboni had already knocked out some screenshots from his Mac...
From the Z-man's blog entry, 2.0 release looks to be shaping up nicely. My current favorite feature is the plugin capability.
My belief is that GTD tools need / must / absolutely freakin' have too integrate with other tools (like Outlook) in order to be truly useful. Otherwise you wind up duplicating information in more than one tool, and that goes against a very core belief I have about saving time with technology: Repetitious work should be done with tools, not by a human. Duplicating information (like taking ThinkingRock Actions and translating them into Outlook Tasks) is a prime example of work that is done much better by a machine than a human.
Given the limits of time and space imposed on all developers (and especially on Open Source, part time and pet project developers like me), it doesn't make sense to provide integration with all the various task and time management tools under the sun. However, it does make sense to provide extension points so that people who want to create that integration can do it without a lot of messy hacking.
Anyway, here's the link to the ThinkingRock 2.0 Gamma preview, and if you want to know more about ThinkingRock in general, check out the TR site.
For those of you who are interested in tool integration, what's your opinion on the need for GTD tools to be integrated? Is it absolutely necessary? Can you actually get away with being a one GTD tool man or woman? Post your comments below.
P.S.: Wait, did I imply that Outlook is a time management tool? It's more like a time sink. \\J
I also think that the integration in outlook or something is more than necassery, because i don't have the time to do my work in 2 progs.
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