Hi,
this post is going to be part eulogy, part rant, so bear with me or just ignore it.
Having started first GTD, then quite fast TR about 1.5 years ago, I quickly had some really overwhelming effects regarding my 'personal productivity'.
The GTD method became a good way of getting myself organized and really Getting Things Done.
TR was helping along quite nicely, even if there were still some areas for improvement: a better editor, a calendar, integration with outlook, blackberry support. Still, the main features were there and the GTD implementation within TR is actually quite good and thorough.
There was only one thing I didn't like - the user interface is not, aahhh, sexy: no fancy graphics, no beautifully designed icons, no nice animations. Just plain old functionality.
So I started looking for alternatives - and there seem to be many. To name just a few, in no particular order: Nozbe, RememberTheMilk, Things, Omnifocus, KOI community, Wunderlist, NirvanaHQ.
Some of them were visually appealing, so I gave them a try, sometimes even paying money because they looked really promising. Don't ask how often I entered my contexts, projects, to-do's, and next actions. But all of the tools I looked at fell short of several things: ease of use, flexibility, and, most of all, adherence to the GTD method. They were nice, really. But they did not help any better than TR with Getting Things Done.
I fell for 'productivity pr0n', as Merlin Mann puts it; I wanted to find a better tool, a nicer software, a more beautiful interface. And I kept searching... until I realized that there is not THE best tool for GTD.
So now I'm coming back to TR, because this is the software that keeps me on track - a bare-bones tool without distraction, a stable, reliable skeleton that's for me to flesh out, a basket in which to fill my ideas, my tasks and my responsibilities.
To sum up: Thank you for a great tool! Keep up the good work.
Sincerely
GWHome
