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May 10, 2005
Macs and GTD
Apparently there's a rapidly growing awareness of GTD in the Mac community. Mention in MacWorld this month, and emails like this I got last night...
Getting things done in OS X
Hi David, I just wanted to tip you about my blog post about getting things done on the new Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). I guess you're a PC user, but maybe some of your friends use Macs. Thanks for making such a great book. =) Oyvind Solstad
Norway's on line with GTD, too... cool.
And FYI, our CTO, Robert Peake, is a serious Mac head, as is Jim Rider, our creative director, plus a couple of others on staff. Hopefully we'll dispel rumors that we're not Mac-friendly... I'm actually jealous of people who are bidigital...
Posted by David at May 10, 2005 06:35 PM
Comments
Me too, I have a Mac fired up right next to my dual-Dell Workstation and I think it smokes the PC in terms of elegance and panache. You may not be bi-Mac/PC yet, but your love for the iPod shows you're at least not Apple-phobic. And who knows, the iPod has been known to have a trojan horse affect on people. :)
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Posted by: Greg Fisk at May 11, 2005 12:12 AM
Just so you know, a large and thriving community exists around using Mac stuff for GTD and GTD-style activities. It is centered on Merlin Mann's 43 Folders. You should definitely check it out. He's doing great stuff.
Posted by: Greg Borenstein at May 11, 2005 02:27 AM
Greg, that's true. Merlin and I also both are alums of New College. If you know about New College, you'll know how strange both of us probably are, and that we'd run in similar grooves...
David
Posted by: David Allen at May 11, 2005 04:29 AM
You might want to note that 43Folders (mentioned above) is the number two Google result for the search query "GTD" and the number three result for the search query "Getting Things Done."
Posted by: PJ Doland at May 11, 2005 04:31 AM
It blew my mind when I first learned we both went to New College; at the time I graduated in 1990, there had been a total of about 2,000 graduates in the twenty-some year history of the school.
And yet I run into New College people everywhere. Amazing.
Posted by: Merlin at May 11, 2005 07:17 AM
Merlin - 20-something-year history of New College??? Excuse me, I graduated in 1968. You can count folders, but not years...! (I know, anything before 1980 is Paleolithic...)
David
Posted by: David Allen at May 11, 2005 03:12 PM
Heh. I meant 20-something years at the time (1990). I think the first class entered in 1963, if memory serves.
I know you and Ken Misemer were a vintage of the early vine! The big blue bus days, right? :)
Posted by: Merlin at May 11, 2005 03:30 PM
There's an excellent implementation of GTD on Macintosh in a program called Tinderbox by Eastgate Software. You can find a free template for its implementation in the Tinderbox Public File Exchange.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 12, 2005 12:34 PM
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