Comments on: OmniFocus: GTD for Mac

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:08:41 +0000

Periodically I scrounge around looking for the perfect organizer. On the latest effort, I’ve ended up with a free application called Thinking Rock which pretty well perfectly implements the GTD methodology. It has the additional advantage, for those of us who inhabit a cross-platform world, of running (under Java) on most all operating systems. You might want to check it out: http://www.thinkingrock.com.au.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:02:00 +0000

I haven’t actually mentioned what kind of law I practice because this blog is primarily about the work I have done (and continue to do) to set up my wife’s estate planning practice.

I am also a fan of Nisus Writer Pro and OmniOutliner. I used Nisus Writer Express my last two years of law school. Word kept screwing up my outlines. Then, during a final, Word (v.X) told me that it couldn’t save because it was out of memory. Thankfully, I was able to cut-and-paste into another document and save it, but that was the last straw. I switched to NWE almost exclusively after that.

OmniOutliner I am rather new to because I haven’t seen a need for it. I did just create a few outlines for trial with OO, and it seemed to work pretty well for that. I’ll try to see how else I can use it.

Circus Ponies Notebook I know about. I am currently trying it out for a bit with an eye toward writing a review.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:23:44 +0000

I haven’t read enough of your site yet to know what kind of law you practice – though I’m enjoying what I see here and can hardly wait for the Daylite video! – but you might want to give OmniOutliner a look. It’s a fantastic tool to use to organize information, plan out written or oral presentations or examinations of witnesses. It’s easy and flexible and has great video tutorials at the OmniGroup web site.
Circus Ponies Notebook is another app that I like a lot. It’s more for storage of information and snippets and ideas. It can hold information in all kinds of forms and automatically indexes whatever is in it, so that you can’t lose anything, no matter how hurried or disorganized you manage to be.
As long as I’m singing the praises of software, let me add that I’m in the process of learning and switching to Nisus Writer Pro from Word. I love its speed and power and the learning curve, unless you need to get quite deep into it, is minimal. There’s a really helpful support forum at the Nisus web site and a free trial download if you want to give it a shot. I bought a license within a day or two of my download.
Thanks for a wonderful site.
Stephen (who doesn’t work for, own stock in, or have any hidden agenda concerning any of the above software companies)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:07:38 +0000

Hi Gary. Thanks for your kind words.

I haven’t actually seen Circus Ponies. I took a look at it, and it seems quite similar to OmniOutliner.

Interestingly, OmniFocus was inspired by a third-party set of scripts, called Kinkless GTD (kgtd), that turned OmniOutliner into a GTD task tool. The kgtd developer collaborated on OmniFocus and now works at The Omni Group.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:28:32 +0000

How is this different from circusponies?

By the way, I like the website. I’m going to get the updated feeds. Keep up the good work!