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New Job, Windows and GTD

I am starting a new job in a week (woohoo!), it is a big step in every category except one: I will have to work on a Windows PC. I have become very comfortable on my Mac at work and home and have been using Actiontastic to organize myself (among many other failed experiments).

What options are there for cross platform GTD? I don't want to use a web-based app unless I can host it myself (a little nervous about down time and disappearing companies/services) and I want to be able to take my "home" project and use their contexts, etc. at work.

Any suggestions?

TOPICS: Windows
jason.mcbrayer's picture

I had a similar situation...

I had a similar situation a few months ago, coming from Unix at home to Windows at work. I started off with MonkeyGTD (a browser-based local javascript system), and was almost but not quite satisfied with that. I would still recommend it to anyone wanting a portable cross-platform system.

I ended up being able to install GNU Emacs on my work machine, and use the same system at work (org-mode) as I do at home. Emacs is also cross-platform, of course, but if you're not already an Emacs user, you probably won't want to start using it just for org-mode.

 
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