Not-so-kinkless GTD
Jun 20th, 2007 by Kay |
In my quest for organization and since I still didn’t receive my alpha invite for OmniFocus, I decided to give kGTD another try. I had looked into it before, but never bothered long enough to actually figure it out. Since I now have this plan of (re)organizing myself and my workflow during this summer I thought, since OF is anyways based on kGTD, I’ll use it as an interim solution.
kGTD brought the need of, again, installing QuickSilver. I had installed QS once or twice before, mainly to see what all the hype was but it went the way of many good, but poorly documented applications: into the Trash. This time I was set to make it work with kGTD where it is needed to have a quick entry feature.
Of course, with my luck, the latest version of kGTD has a bug that apparently sets some wrong permissions in QS’ application support folders. After reading through endless threads on forums and experimenting around for several hours, including the attempt of using the Send to KGTD Advanced script to avoid the problem I was left without a solution. It simply doesn’t work.
Now I’m stuck with a tentatively set up kGTD where I can’t do the ‘quick drop of a thought into the inbox‘ without actually switching to kGTD and the inbox and typing it in there. This was exactly the reason why I wanted to move from LifeBalance (which deserves a rant of its own), but didn’t want to wait until the OF invite arrives.
My take on the situation: Ethan has stopped development of kGTD since he’s involved in OF (and I definitely support that) while QS has probably moved on and now they don’t play well together anymore. I wouldn’t give a rat’s a** about that, if I wasn’t stuck without OF, a partially working kGTD, and an afternoon lost on troubleshooting.
Then there are some other more positive developments in my quest involving tagging and link storage which are keeping my level of frustration under control. More in another post…
