BrainDump
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SVN Module: braindump
Developers: Darren Hart
BrainDump is a Context based Todo and Note taking
application, based largely on the productivity tips outlined in the book
"Getting Things Done" by David Allen. Tasks are tagged with the context in
which you plan to accomplish them (Phone Calls, Evening, Online, Weekends,
etc.).
The user interface is designed to optimize the common cases, which I believe to
be viewing and checking off tasks, and populating new projects and tasks during
weekly reviews. As such, those tasks can be accomplished without the use of
dialog boxes, excessive mouse clicks, etc. I intend to make the app save state
automatically - so there will be no "Save" or "Save As" symmantics, just an
"Open" to work with a different data file.
MonkeyGtd
Submitted by Ankita (not verified) on Tue, 2008-04-08 10:39.
Hi Darren,
Dino introduced me to monkeyGtd, which is a tiddly wiki based app for maintaing the ToDo List and is also built on the lines of the book "Getting Things Done". Have you had a chance to look at it (http://monkeygtd.tiddlyspot.com/) ? Appears quite configurable. But yeah, the bad part of that is it requires quite a number of mouse clicks...
Thanks.
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MonkeyGTD
Submitted by dvhart on Thu, 2008-04-10 17:38.
I have actually. I used MonkeyGTD for a couple months. I had a few issues with it:
o very clicky as you pointed out
o doesn't scale (really slowed down after a month of data or so)
o inaccessible data (the inline data model of the SPADE apps makes accessing the data outside of the app basically impossible)
o it didn't streamline usage by only showing relevant data
- if you disabled a realm, the drop-down lists would still list the projects and areas under that realm, making the time to find the one you want take longer.
There are indeed a lot of different tools written to implement this model. A couple of lists here:
- http://gtd.jeffsandquist.com/Default.aspx?Page=GTDTools&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
- http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Category:Todo_Software
One tool that I haven't tried yet that looks like a better take on MonkeyGTD is:
http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/
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Where can I download this
Submitted by ego (not verified) on Sat, 2008-04-05 05:43.
Where can I download this from ?! :)
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Downloading BrainDump
Submitted by dvhart on Sun, 2008-04-06 04:38.
You can download the latest version of the source from the subversion repository:
$ svn co http://www.dvhart.com/svn/braindump
Please note that BrainDump is still incomplete and under heavy development. For example, it still does not have a backing store (it doesn't load or save files). Much of the basic application logic is in place, so if you are interested in trying out the work-flow and providing feedback, I would be very interested in hearing from you. If you are looking for a solid app to start using for real work - BrainDump isn't ready yet.
See the README for philosophy and dependencies. See TODO for what is still on my plate to work on (patches welcome :-)
Thanks for the interest!
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