(Archived) GTD +?

[CodeMonkey 0]

I'm looking for a tool. (Insert obnoxious one-liner here)

I'd like something to organize my ToDo's in a GTD manner -- and I know Evernote will do that. (As will Omnifocus). But, I want something more.

I also want to organize details of my ongoing projects, in a searchable manner. Something that I can use to quickly create projects, add notes, attach files (or, even better links to files / applications).

Let's assume that I track bug fixes for a software company. I'd want to hold onto patches, link to e-mails, and have links to dev spaces so I can quickly pop up a terminal, extract the patch, compile, test, etc, and keep my results in a searchable place.

org-mode for e-macs almost does this. But, there is a huge learning curve, and I'm not quite there yet.

I think OmniFocus might do the trick, but, OF does not link to my android phone.

Do any of you have similar setups you can recommend? The data collection abilities of EN are amazing, so, I'd prefer to use it, but, I'm not sure if it's abilities over data collection can solve the rest of my needs.

Comments?

[s2sailor 2,504]

Evernote, at least today, is not a very good task manager. That is not it's focus. It can be used to some degree for todo items but if you want more heavy duty GTD functions you would be better off considering other tools. There are several good task managers out there. The one that I use and prefer is MyLifeOrganized (MLO). I use it for work related project management and it was written with GTD in mind. I use EN daily for data collection and really tried to make it work for task management but I could never find a setup that worked for me and came close to providing what a stand alone task management program can do. Others have ... if you haven't already, search on GTD and you will see ideas that others have posted.

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

A few people have implemented GTD style in EN. Please search the board on GTD.

Let's assume that I track bug fixes for a software company. I'd want to hold onto patches, link to e-mails, and have links to dev spaces so I can quickly pop up a terminal, extract the patch, compile, test, etc, and keep my results in a searchable place.

IME, I'd use tags. From what you stated, I'm thinking you're saying you may need to install a particular fix for the same problem for many users? If so, IME, I try to combine all notes into a single EN note. In that case, a tag may not be necessary, since a search may suffice. IE, one of my notes details what to do when a network printer works fine with Windows but not unix. Searching on the words "sharp unix windows" (not in quotes) will yield a very small number of notes. I can quickly tell which one I need from the title.

OTOH, there are times when initially debugging something when I may want to reference all notes, emails, screen caps, web pages, etc. I will then use tags. If I can then streamline the fix into a single note, I'll do that too & note that in the title. But I'll add a meaningful tag to all notes, so I can pull up notes I found previously. Actually, what I do when working on a particularly detailed issue is that I'll create a notebook. Pop all emails, screen caps & notes into it. When completed, I'll tag all notes, move them to their final resting place & delete the working notebook. Then if I need to reference them again, I'll pull up the notes via the tag.