Comments on: Midnight Inbox: An easy-to-understand GTD system for the Mac?

By: Brennan Cheung

Brennan Cheung — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:20:17 +0000

The concept of what this application does is very promising.

But from a user interface perspective it is way to slow. By slow I mean the design of it, not the computational performance. I should be able to use arrow keys to move around. I don't care that it looks pretty, I want it to be usable.

I'm currently evaluating this program and I'm probably not going to use it, at least it it's current form, because it requires me to jump through too many hoops in order to add items. I don't get the point of the collect either. It isn't true to GTD. Collect is where you dump things off your mind or just grab a whole bunch of legacy stuff and put it there so you can sort through it later.

By: Christopher Tilley

Christopher Tilley — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:39:00 +0000

Been using Inbox (1.2.2), as my sole GTD tool for while now. It’s pretty good, for me the biggest issue is that despite checking an item off it still appears in my work list until I archive the project. As most of my projects last months, this is annoying.

By: Lee Rodrigues

Lee Rodrigues — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:20:34 +0000

I have been using actiontastic with with quicksilver adn it is very user friendly. I can add notes very easily, but there is no email integration. I tried backpack before that and I abandoned it.

What version is this review for?

By: Michael Madsen

Michael Madsen — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:37:53 +0000

Looks promising – but no quicksilver integration is the big show stopper…

By: pauldwaite

pauldwaite — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:00:51 +0000

It's got some nice features (I love the natural-language date entry, and auto-collection is a very good idea), and an interface that actually manages to be more Mac-like than the Mac itself.

But it feels very over-designed. I've just spent 20 minutes trying to get started with it. Way too much going on. After I'd managed to create two actions, I set one to start 5 days in the future, and it still got displayed (albeit in grey) in the "Work" folder. I like a to-do app that only tells me what I've got to do now, and leaves next week's tasks for then.

By: Anneliese

Anneliese — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:51:30 +0000

That's right, it's not designed for GTD. It's just very configurable because of the very customizable smart folders and families, as well as tags, categories, labels, and markings (checks and flags).

I used to use it for projects, and I know others who do, but I really like to outline and hoist sections in OOP, so I switched. But Journler is still the best for next actions. I tried kGTD but constantly found myself syncing and waiting all the time.

The newest Journler beta is a treat!

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:58:05 +0000

Anneliese, I guess I stand corrected. But am I right that Journler is not designed as a GTD, but can be configured to be one?

By: Anneliese

Anneliese — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:11:10 +0000

Hmmm Pete, it’s strange you say that, because I use Journler for GTD every day, and I’m not the only one. I use it for my next actions, one entry for each action, labeled with a different color and/or category for each context. I use OOP for projects. I also use Journler for brainstorm writing, and also as my reference system.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:58:29 +0000

Journler is definitely not a GTD app. It has no workflow. As for Inbox, I’ve tested version 1 for two days and can report that it crashes at the drop of a hat! Not very intuitive either.

By: evariste

evariste — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:34:18 +0000

The keyboard command to add a Note is Cmd-Return.