The interface for John's GTD app

Thought I'd show you the interface in action. Just as I said before, there's the three parts: action code, action statement, and status code.

Since I stopped using it for the entire year of 2005, and almost all of 2006, I forgot about a couple of things. First, the 'H' status means "hold." This is important, since there are tasks that I'm not sure if I need to do or not, but I don't want to forget them. Whenever I do an update, it gets added as an item, with the same 'H' status code.

Another thing is when you do an update of the app, you rewrite all the previous unfinished codes. However, you don't rewrite any Logs. It sounds obvious, but you could forget something you logged, and you'd want to remember it. How you get around that is you tell yourself to "Get log written down."

Something else I forgot over the 22 month layoff was another action code: Tell. Sounds as obvious as it sounds, just something to tell somebody else. Just for reference, here's all the codes in all their glory:

Action codes: Get, Tell, Findout, Log, Update
Status codes: _ (no status), D, R, X, |, H

Your thoughts on John's GTD app are appreciated, and you can contact me here.

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