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05-17-2006, 01:39 PM
Interesting conversation going on...I just got done playing with Next Action I think it is a good attempt but I recently bought todoMatrix from rexwireless.com...that program is amazing and well done. I'm a GTD "lite" person, I like and use the concept of GTD contexts.todoMatrix isn't GTD preconfigured (Getting Things Done by David Allen for the non-GTD people) out of the gate but offers the ability to search all the data in any to-do very quickly which makes it easy to configure to-do contexts. It also searches special characters, a problem in some BB programs.
So...what I did is set up the standard auto text short cuts in regular BlackBerry Options. I went to Autotext to insert "@office" or "@car" or "@home" etc with a couple of regular keystrokes (I use (qqo = @office) (qqh = @home) (qqa = @all) (qqc = @car) because qq doesn’t appear in many words but you can figure out whatever is best for you). I can simply do a "find" in todoMatrix on "@of" and hit enter and I immediately see all the @office context to-do's, which I can sort anyway I choose. That is another feature I really like! Todomatrix remembers the last find, so referring back to the found folder works really well. I can also update my task status from the found folder...I do not have to go to the folder any one task is stored in. What is so cool about doing it the todoMatrix way...is that doing it this way makes the number of contexts and groups absolutely unlimited.
I think what you gain doing it this way is using the best overall to-do appl which gives you a lot of other functions. The downside is that TodoMatrix is not Outlook sync-able...but I never loved Outlook and I'm moving to a mostly wireless existance anyway. SO no love lost here!
I really hate bursting any bubbles on the Next Action GTD program but if you really want a great app and good support the rexwirless guys do it well!
Last edited by berrynut : 05-17-2006 at 02:35 PM.
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