I officially claim: The people at OmniGroup can read my mind. Today, I saw that iGTD has released yet another update. Coming from kGTD and having followed the creating of OmniFocus, I had seen but so far ignored the roaring development of iGTD with its growing fanbase – I had even withstood the fact that they integrate with my newly licenced copy of MailTags2.
Still… today I felt that I have to get back to being more organized, and that means using a trusted GTD system again. I had been slow on keeping my kGTD up to date – it just did not feel natural enough to work in it, as good as it is, and just knowing that people are already using the OmniFocus alpha made me wonder why I still have to put up with its ancestors.
So I did two things: First, I updated my copy of iGTD, pulled it out of the trashbin, and tried to like it (for the tenth time, at least). Did not work. I tried to add some tasks, and it gave me options that I did not want to have, it did not click with me at all. Second, I tried to find out if there is a chance that I have been already selected as alpha-tester from Omni, but did not notice – I was hoping they sent me a message that my spamfilter caught. But no – only the regular Viagra, Pornsite, Stock-trading boredom. I checked for their status of the invitations (they are working their way down the OmniFocus-mailing list chronologically) – and it said that they are up to the day BEFORE I signed up. Which made me sigh, search all email folders again, and get back to work – knowing that I will jump up and down once I can get my hands on OmniFocus, and knowing that I really don’t click with its alternatives.
Guess what happened minutes ago: I got my sweet invite. Omni can read minds! Now – I know, for most of you out there it is not imaginable how happy one can be to be allowed to get an alpha version of some piece of software. Alpha means pretty much it is under heavy development, unstable, crashy, changing every few hours / days and nothing is for granted. But still – this is not just any software: I have been reading up on 43folders and kinkless.com, later on omnigroup.com about its development, I have drank up every blog post, and watched every screencast. It was _almost_ there, just not quite.
Now, folks, I got it. It installed my kGTD without major problems (only ignoring hyperlinks, but that is fine with me), and it is syncing well with iCal – it seems. Now all I have to do is force myself to go back to work.
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