31
Jan
GTD with Vitalist
I haven’t been looking for GTD software recently. I’ve finally managed to find a system that works for me, and what do you know? It is a plain vanilla system utilising Outlook and Pocket Informant. But regardless of how comfortable in my current system I am, I will still keenly check out anything shiny and new that crosses my path. So today, when I ran smack into Vitalist, I could stop myself registering to check it out.
One of the things I liked the most was the ability to assign people to ‘waiting on’ items, and move them to a separate list. Perhaps my biggest complaint with my current system is that while I use the ‘Waiting on someone else’ option with outlook, the tasks/next actions still remain on my list taunting me. While that is great to keep on top of reminding those people, it doesn’t give me the complete ‘mind like water’ feel because those things are still around. I find myself moving deadline dates for those things when people don’t finish them on time, which isn’t a major problem, but does require a bit of fiddling. And because I actually run two discrete systems, it involves some double ups. I think Vitalist’s separate ‘waiting on’ list is a good choice; it will allow me to keep a list of those things I’m waiting on, without them being on my main to-do list.
As well as the waiting on list, I’m excited about the projects. Outlook’s management of projects is famously woeful, to the extent that my project list is actually kept outside of Outlook and only the next actions are transferred. Vitalist allows you to list your projects, then attach actions to them.
Probably the one thing I’m not so thrilled about in my quick play so far is that selecting an action for editing requires you to click a small icon on the left of the action. Clicking the name of the action does nothing, although I rather expect to be able to open the action by clicking on the name, especially as my mouse pointer changes to a hand when I move over it. Perhaps this is a glich in my computer, so I’ll try again from home.
But all in all, while I’m currently very happy with my vanilla Outlook system, I’ll be keeping Vitalist in the background for the inevitable day when the wheels fall off and I begin searching for the Ultimate GTD System all over again.
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