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New Job, Windows and GTD

Jered | May 3 2007

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?

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Jason, Thanks for the reply, I...

Submitted by jeredb on May 6, 2007 - 4:56am.

Jason,
Thanks for the reply, I have tried MonkeyGTD and other wiki-on-a-stick solutions before and have always managed to screw them up some how (i.e. nasty error messages trying to save it, or it not getting saved at all). But that was when TiddlyWiki was very new, so I'll take a look again.

Yucca,
I think you may have hit the nail on the head trifold. 1st, I worry about putting all my data in a system that can't really be trusted like a webapp provider who is here to day but disappears tomorrow. 2nd, windows GTD apps feel very kludgy (at least the ones I've tested) and you are completely right about wasting time with inferior tools, and 3rd, I do have a Mac, and I can put up with cutting, pasting and emailing (for now).

Thank you both for reply, I know the Windows portion of this board gets less traffic, so I appreciate your time.

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