Getting Things Done – Capture Tools
Getting Things Done – Capture Tools
After reading David Allen’s book I’ve got excited on his ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD) schema and tried out some capture tools.
| Tool | Supplier | Features | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Braintoss | https://braintoss.com/ | App for capturing voice, photo, and notes. It sends emails to one ore more target email addresses. Pictures and voice will be automatically transformed to text. | App costs 1,99 EUR |
| Drafts | https://getdrafts.com/ | App to capture text or voice input, and act on it: send, store, post, ... only IOS | |
| Evernote | https://www.evernote.com | App and Website to take and organize notes, create checklists. Share notes. | |
| Nirvana | https://www.nirvanahq.com/ | App and Web, GTD tool, including time categories (next waiting, scheduled, Someday), projects with notes, references and tags as proposed by GTD. Initial installation comes with some demo tasks that guide through basic functionality, includes reading Allan's book and quick guide. Project attributes: Tags, description, Due date, flag parallel/sequencial tasks Free version limited to 5 projects. Export all as csv. Active on Twitter @nirvanahq | Nice full GTD tool. Provides necessry GTD features, no foto capture. UIX could be improved, but I've chosen it because of the project detail. New company, home pages says little about the company. (dropped 10.03.19) |
| To-do | Microsoft | New Microsoft app to organize todos, will be intregrated into Office 365 | https://www.netzpiloten.de/microsoft-to-do/ |
| Todoist | https://doist.com/ | GTD tool, App and Web. Basic GTD functionality. Most features need premium license. Includes assistants, and a lot of hints/tipps how to improve productivity. Sends email reminders and tipps by email in default setting. Projects can be indented building a hierarchy. Very active on Twitter @todoist | Nice UIX, Originally I thought, that's my tool. But free version offers too little functionality. Hints and tipps are good for beginners. Company since 2007, has two products: todoist and twist. Has open Job adds. Interesting: doist is promoting a virtual asynchronous working model. |
| Wunderlist | https://www.wunderlist.com/de/ | Manage and share lists, reminders, todos, ... Will be replaced by Microsoft To-do. | Microsoft bought Wunderlist in 2015 and has promised to replace it with Microsoft To-Do. |
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