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		<title>Tracks: Slick, Rubyfied GTD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Gaden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tracks is a slick Ruby on Rails webapp for &#8220;Getting Things Done&#8221; (GTD ). I didn&#8217;t include it in my Top Ten Mac tools for GTD post because I didn&#8217;t know about it. It&#8217;s very nice. Highly flexible, the main page allows you to display all your next actions or just the next actions for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hawkwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/wp-images/tracks_icon.jpg" height="43" width="130" border="0" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="0" alt="tracks_icon" title="tracks_icon" />Tracks is a slick Ruby on Rails webapp for &#8220;Getting Things Done&#8221; (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_things_done">GTD</a> <img src="http://www.hawkwings.net/images/extlink.jpg"/>). I didn&#8217;t include it in my <a href="http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/14/ten-mac-tools-for-getting-things-done/">Top Ten Mac tools for GTD</a> post because I didn&#8217;t know about it. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s very nice.  Highly flexible, the main page allows you to display all your next actions or just the next actions for a particular project. You can also drag and drop things around until they are ordered how you want them to be.</p>
<p>The interface has a pleasing 37signals-esque (or is that just &#8220;Web 2.0&#8243;?) look:</p>
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.hawkwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/wp-images/trackstrain_main.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.hawkwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/wp-images/trackstrain_main.jpg','popup','width=860,height=419,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://www.hawkwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/wp-images/trackstrain_main-tm.jpg" height="209" width="430" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="10" alt="trackstrain_main" title="trackstrain_main" /></a><br /><small><em>Click the image for a full-sized view</em></small></div>
<p>Particularly nice because it doesn&#8217;t always happen, it includes international date options in its preferences:</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s overflowing with features, but I am not going to stumble through them here when the developer <a href="http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/">sets them out so nicely</a> <img src="http://www.hawkwings.net/images/extlink.jpg"/> on the app&#8217;s web site. </p>
<p>Obviously, as a webapp the natural inclination is to host it on a server, although it comes with its own built-in webserver, WEBrick , so you can run it on your own computer.</p>
<p>Tracks is open source and freeware. </p>
<p>Setting it up could be traumatic, although Jacken <a href="http://www.jackenhack.com/blog/archives/2006/05/25/gtd-ruby-on-rails-and-the-mac">has written a great walk-through</a> <img src="http://www.hawkwings.net/images/extlink.jpg"/> to get Tracks up and running on your own computer with Locomotive.</p>
<p>If you still don&#8217;t want to go through all the steps he outlines or you want to &#8220;try before you buy&#8221;, Chris Erway is hosting it on his site <a href="http://tracks.tra.in">tracks.tra.in</a> <img src="http://www.hawkwings.net/images/extlink.jpg"/> and allowing other users to create accounts. The screenshots in this post come from an account on his site. Head over and try it out.<tags>GTD, getting things done, ruby, rails, tracks, webapp, very nice, productivity</tags><strong>Similar Posts:</strong>
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