GTD and Other Interesting Software
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.
I am a long-standing devotee of the "Getting Things Done" (GTD) approach to life, as I first described in about him four years ago. We've become friends and stayed The GTD Way mainly involves habits of mind and action, but it also places a lot of emphasis on having the right tools, gizmos, and gimmicks to support those habits. Over the years I've used a variety of software to set up GTD-based systems on my computer. Ones I've liked include and . The one I keep coming back to for my own purposes, more than a dozen years after I started using it, is the idiosyncratic but powerful . Zoot is PC-only, and for that matter text-only (no graphics etc), but it runs flawlessly on a Mac under . Here are three more to bear in mind, with different strengths and idiosyncracies of their own:
