December 5, 2006: Two Pending Web Based GTD Applications -- scrybe and propel'r
Get Those web applications Done already, so we can Get Things Done!
Posted on 2006-12-05 09:00 by Jørn Støylen [permalink]
A while back I saw the demonstration video for scrybe, a web based GTD application currently in beta (as in “not publically released yet and undergoing testing”, not as in “released”, as seems to be the new popular meaning of the word). I had forgotten its name, though, so yesterday I made a Google search for “gtd web application” and found propel’r instead.
Aaargh! Two pending GTD applications! When are they going to be released, so we procrastinators will Get Things Done??
I must say, though, that they both look promising, but Scrybe looks more professional and less vaporware-like—or, rather, closer to an actual release, which I guess is why propel’r felt they had to put up their teaser site.
I’ve tried implementing GTD a couple of times now without success. I feel like I need guidance on a daily basis, and I’m hoping for an online solution that does that while also getting out of my way. I wrote about Tracks exactly one year and a day ago, and haven’t been getting much done with that at all. I tried liking it, but it’s way too slow and doesn’t do stuff as well as it should to be useable. Paraphrasing mr. Allen, if your system isn’t a joy to use, you won’t use it. And I find that to be very true.
Scrybe looks to be a very joyful experience, and it looks like it’ll mainly be a Flash application, which I think is okay. Flash works, and it’s available online everywhere. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that it even works offline with automatic syncing as soon as you get online again (which means I can use it on the train!).
Also, my moleskine hack/slash doesn’t get used enough, so the one in my pocket now is severely mauled. Scrybe’s PaperSync seems so much more usable to me: printing your calendar and next actions on a sheet that folds up to a booklet, and which has room for notes that you enter into the application as you get back to a computer (which, again, might or might not be online at the time).
I don’t know much about propel’r yet, but I the fact that they’ve organised their teaser site into Collect—Process—Organize—Review instead of Projects—Actions—Contexts is promising, because they focus on doing instead of tinkering with their tool.
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Hi, I’m a developer on Propel’r. Rest assured that we are working hard to get an initial release out early ‘07. We a urging people to blog about it and give their comments at blog.propelr.com.
We will release some screenshots and hopefully a screencast as soon as possible.