At work, I’ve been using GTDTiddlyWiki + my own vague understanding of GTD to organize my life, and it’s been a great help. Soon, I’ll break down and actually buy the frickin book. It can’t hurt to get the big picture from the source.
At home, I use a Moleskine notebook and some tabs (a hack I borrowed, with modifications, from this guy) to do a quazi-GTD thing in a highly portable, analog format. But I have recently been tempted by Tracks, a Ruby+Rails-based web application for managing GTD. I haven’t tried setting it up on one of my own servers yet, but I discovered this very handy, free, hosted solution called tracks.tra.in. I’m not sure if I even want to replace my nice, offline Moleskine with a nice, online Rails app, but I’ll give it a shot. If I like it, I’ll try setting up my own install.
My argument against using a web application to manage my home life is based on 1) lack of portability, and 2) the fact that I’m online too much as it is. But my home life is also more complicated than my work life (i.e. more contexts, more projects, more tasks), and keeping the whole mess sorted out is tricky. So I’ll play around with Tracks for a few weeks and see if I’m willing to switch. Maybe I’ll make Tracks the homepage of my browser and just print out lists to take with me. Maybe I’ll paste them into my Moleskine with that paste we used to use in grade school (when we weren’t busy eating it) and bring the whole thing full circle.
And if none of this geekiness interests you (and why should it, really), here’s something fun, which I just discovered: 5ives.com.