Actiontastic: Simple powerful GTD app
Jon Crosby has released a public beta of his new GTD application Actiontastic which takes a powerfully simple approach to implementing David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” approach to productivity.
I’ve only played with it for thirty minutes, but it looks very likely to earn a place in my list of Ten GTD apps for Mac Users. I like it.
The interface is intentionally sparse and focussed (Jon says that the app is designed to be “a lean mean action contextifying machine”):
New projects and actions can be added in the Inbox, the Project view lists actions and their contexts for each project and the Context view lists actions by context, including an option to view just the next action in each context.
It’s beta software. As the release notes warn “because this is a pre-release version of the upcoming 1.0 release, please note that it may behave in strange ways on your Mac.”
It includes hints of features still to come like web syncing.
Jon is actively seeking 
feedback and user requests.
The public beta is available from his web site and expires on 12 October, by which time I imagine there will be another beta or, if all goes well, a final release.
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Tags: getting things done, gtd, not apple mail, Productivity, task management, workflow
September 29th, 2006 at 2:08 am
Looks like a very nice little tool, but unfortunately is a little too self-contained at the moment.
Add syncing with iCal (primarily so that to-dos can land on other portable devices) and this could very well be the perfect solution for somebody looking for a very simple GTD app. I’m presently using kGTD, but sometimes that’s a bit more complex than I really need.
September 29th, 2006 at 4:55 am
Great start!
Add iCal synching (via SyncServices) and my credit card is yours. ;-)
September 29th, 2006 at 6:06 am
The best way to maintain productivity is to NOT INSTALL BETA SOFTWARE :)
September 29th, 2006 at 9:17 am
hehehe… Nicely put! :)
September 29th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
EasyTask manager appears to be a few steps ahead; not sure what Actiontastic has to offer (or not) over ETM.
October 1st, 2006 at 3:22 pm
How can this earn a list on your top 10 GTD applications when it is yet another simple task list app? Or am I missing something clever about it?
October 1st, 2006 at 9:12 pm
First, I think it is full of promise and secondly, it looks very polished. And a Mac-like interface is a virtue that is much on my mind at the moment :)
July 18th, 2008 at 1:45 am
This is a great, intuivie, sleek gtd app. One quirk and question though is the the All vs. Current section on the left-hand side. Seems to be functionless. Great that it ipod/phone syncs!