Tudumo (tudumo.com), a superb to-do list program, was recently
released from beta, and is now being sold for $19.95 till March 20 -
afterwards the price goes up to $29.95.
This program (Windows, requires .NET framework) combines power and
simplicity in an extraordinarily efficient and user-friendly package -
VERY highly recommended! (It does not displace traditional calendar/
PIM software, but rather supplements them.)
Please note that I am in no way connected to the developer, just a
very satisfied user who has been using the program since it was in
beta, and hence happy to pass on the news to others who might want to
take advantage of the discount, as I did.
I took a quick look at this package and it does indeed look very clean
and elegant. However, there is a strong incentive for me to work
within Outlook, not really through choice, but more for the way it is
central to my day-to-day work within the organisation I work in. What
I would like to see is the elegance of this package brought within the
GTD add-in for Outlook.
I am also stuck with Outlook (though I am a rare beast as I actually LIKE Outlook!). Have you considered the JelloGTD homepage as an alternative to the David Co plug in? It has very similar functionality without the often flaky side effects of using (any) plug in in Outlook.
If you need any help setting it up etc please feel free to email me 'off list'
On 10/03/2008, Simon <simon.bate...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> I took a quick look at this package and it does indeed look very clean > and elegant. However, there is a strong incentive for me to work > within Outlook, not really through choice, but more for the way it is > central to my day-to-day work within the organisation I work in. What > I would like to see is the elegance of this package brought within the > GTD add-in for Outlook.
Have loaded up and taken a look. Not sure I entirely understand it all
yet, but there are aspects that I like. The big thing I like is the
idea of the next action toggle that moves tasks to the next action
box. I think that 'next action' has two understood meanings in GTD-
land. In the book, it means what is the next thing I need to do
towards a goal. But in this app its more like, 'out of all the things
I *could* do next, across all my goals, what am I actually going to do
next'
Yes - that is one thing that Jello has 'bolted on'. You record all your N/As (as defined by DA) but it then contemplates the idea that you mingh look through your list of all N/As applicable to your Context and then que-up a list of item you will do today by using the next action toggle.
I perfer to use the more GTD-compliant method of scanning the Context list and picking a N/A and working on that.
The interface takes some getting used to but soon becomes intuative and I realy like it. There is a good Google Group here:
On 3/11/08, Simon <simon.bate...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Have loaded up and taken a look. Not sure I entirely understand it all > yet, but there are aspects that I like. The big thing I like is the > idea of the next action toggle that moves tasks to the next action > box. I think that 'next action' has two understood meanings in GTD- > land. In the book, it means what is the next thing I need to do > towards a goal. But in this app its more like, 'out of all the things > I *could* do next, across all my goals, what am I actually going to do > next'
Simon: a core concept with the user interface is that you can filter actions using different methods, depending on what you're focused on now.
So e.g. to see only N/A's you change the "state filter" to N/A and it filters out everything else. Same with contexts - you can select one or multiple tags to filter by. Even combine that with any of the others, so only next actions with either tag "@Home" or "weekend". The whole thing is a single filtered list, so you don't lose data in e.g. a tree structure.
I'll get a video out when life is a bit less mad :)
Howcome this place is so quiet? It's been a ghost town for ages - used to be quite noisy.
Cheers, Richard
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Simon <simon.bate...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Have loaded up and taken a look. Not sure I entirely understand it all > yet, but there are aspects that I like. The big thing I like is the > idea of the next action toggle that moves tasks to the next action > box. I think that 'next action' has two understood meanings in GTD- > land. In the book, it means what is the next thing I need to do > towards a goal. But in this app its more like, 'out of all the things > I *could* do next, across all my goals, what am I actually going to do > next'
> Lieb - thanks for the mention! Much appreciated.
> Simon: a core concept with the user interface is that you can filter > actions using different methods, depending on what you're focused on > now.
> So e.g. to see only N/A's you change the "state filter" to N/A and it > filters out everything else. Same with contexts - you can select one > or multiple tags to filter by. Even combine that with any of the > others, so only next actions with either tag "@Home" or "weekend". > The whole thing is a single filtered list, so you don't lose data in > e.g. a tree structure.
> I'll get a video out when life is a bit less mad :)
> Howcome this place is so quiet? It's been a ghost town for ages - > used to be quite noisy.
> Cheers, > Richard
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Simon <simon.bate...@btinternet.com> > wrote:
> > Have loaded up and taken a look. Not sure I entirely understand it all > > yet, but there are aspects that I like. The big thing I like is the > > idea of the next action toggle that moves tasks to the next action > > box. I think that 'next action' has two understood meanings in GTD- > > land. In the book, it means what is the next thing I need to do > > towards a goal. But in this app its more like, 'out of all the things > > I *could* do next, across all my goals, what am I actually going to do > > next'
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Dave Graham <dake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> checking out Tudumo at the moment, and first impressions are that it's > exactly what I've been looking for
> One thing: can you sort the headings automatically? I've set up headings per > client project, and would ideally like them alphabetically.
Not yet - actions are sortable but not headings yet. I've had a couple of queries for that so have just put it in my list now. It's been dog-fooded [1] heavily - all my bugs and requests are in there! 110 active actions just for Tudumo so it should be in by...2010? ;)
Richard
[1] I think MS came up with the term - "eat your own dog food".
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Dave Graham <dake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> checking out Tudumo at the moment, and first impressions are that it's > exactly what I've been looking for
> One thing: can you sort the headings automatically? I've set up headings per > client project, and would ideally like them alphabetically.
Not yet - actions are sortable but not headings yet. I've had a couple of queries for that so have just put it in my list now. It's been dog-fooded [1] heavily - all my bugs and requests are in there! 110 active actions just for Tudumo so it should be in by...2010? ;)
Richard
[1] I think MS came up with the term - "eat your own dog food".
