Best Personal Development Software

[Goyis]

I just purchased the Dream Manifestation Wizzard from Dream Manifesto - The Quantum Method for Manifesting Your Dreams Its pretty simple. Just put in your goals and it pops up every 30 minutes or whatever time you want. The point is to continually focus on your goals through out the day and bring about the manifestation of them. If anyone else uses this program please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks, Goyis

[ninesuns]

I used to use MLO Light for a while for my Actions plus TiddlyWiki to manage a lot of my reference material and Journalling. I've recently switched to MonkeyGTD which is basically a mod of TiddlyWiki and can do everything I need, fits on a USB Thumbdrive and is free. The file can get a little large after a while though. Haven't run into that problem yet.

[Henry]

FREE Mindmap software, open source, and it's sweet too

FreeMind - Mindmapping software

[Johanka]

Freemind is good.
I use Instiki for various note-taking, drafts and brainstorming, Yahoo calendar for appointments and the command-line todo.txt for next actions.

[mustard76]

I use backpackit.com. You can add audio notes to your "backpack" from your cellphone. I love this feature.

[wilsonng]

I vote for ONeNote.

in terms of organizing myriads of information and tidbits of knowledge and readings it is great.

[Chris D]

I second Esssential PIM.

The reason I like it most is because it can run standalone off of a USB memory stick - I can take my information, notes and schedule with me wherever I go.

The pro version offers outlook synchronization amongst other things.

[scoobie]

Originally Posted by boris

I am working on an app for lightweight personal project management called FusionDesk. It should be ready in 2 weeks.

It supports GTD very well, and is very flexible so anyone can implement their own methodology if they have one.

Here is a screen-shot for a preview:
FusionDesk5 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

The screenshots look good. This looks like an interesting product, however I hope the feature set is wide and strong enough.

Some of questions about the features:
Will it be able to generate a prioritised (smart) to do list? (based on due date, importance, priority and other ratings)
Will there be a slider for task importance?
Will there be a slider to set task urgency?
Can tasks have dependencies?
Will it record time spent?
Will it show what you've spent your time working on graphically (like Life Balance does)?

I recommend you look at My Life organized and its Google user group if you've not done so already. The consensus of this very active community is that you should derive a task's priority from a combination of urgency and importance ratings. (ie don't sweat over urgent tasks that are of low importance to your overall goals). I think the way you are setting a tasks priority would be too basic for most users. Most people seem to want to have their to do list prioritised for them.

[scoobie]

I second:

MLO (My life organized) ( a very sophisticated task manager and prioritiser)

Onenote 2007 (especially tagging features)

Outlook 2007 Calendaring and task manager

and some new ones for you all:

LifeLog (personal time log)

Sciral Consistency (for regular recurring tasks like tracking food eaten, or exercise)

LifeBalance (similar to MLO above in many respects, though with graphical output for tracking time spent versus where you wanted to spend your time - this is a very nice feature - though overall a smaller feature set compared to MLO)

Achieve Planner Similar to MLO above but with an integrated calendar

[gberardi]

I use the Unix utility calendar on my Debian system. I believe Mac OS X has a GUI analogue called Reminder (I think).

I also have the CountdownClock extension for Firefox whenever I want to timebox or otherwise time myself.

Otherwise, I just use plain old pen and paper lists. B-)

[lipor]

I use Note Studio for my desktop and my Palm OS Tungsten C PDA. Works OK in a wiki style and the GDT system, there is even a free template, just it´s a little pricey ($50) .... well, I think I´m worthy .

[7thStranger]

Shameless plug, but I've just launched zenlists (http://zenlists.com) - a flexible webapp that allows you to maintain lists of items of any sort.

I use it for GTD - as the essence of GTD to me seems be lists, lists, lists.

I'd appreciate any feedback, it's still a little rough around the edges, but I wanted to release it early to see if it is of use to anyone else.

[AlexJ]

I agree with another poster.

UltraRecall is exceptionally strong and outstanding product.

However, it does not support East Asian languages (it freezes all the time), so I stopped using it after a day.

Currently using MyInfo from Milenix.

Quite happy with its features.

[and]

Originally Posted by boris

I am working on an app for lightweight personal project management called FusionDesk. It should be ready in 2 weeks.

It supports GTD very well, and is very flexible so anyone can implement their own methodology if they have one.

Here is a screen-shot for a preview:
FusionDesk5 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Boris, under what license will you release this? Free or fee? if fee, how much?

[trekr5]

I borrowed an excellent tip from someone here on the board...

Make up a powerpoint presentation of your intentions and then run it on our computer..almost like a screensaver. That's what I've done so I'm reminded constantly of where I want to be in my life

[jthayes]

Originally Posted by trekr5

I borrowed an excellent tip from someone here on the board...

Make up a powerpoint presentation of your intentions and then run it on our computer..almost like a screensaver. That's what I've done so I'm reminded constantly of where I want to be in my life

Wow. That's an awesome idea. I'm going to use that.

With respect to PD software, I just went with google notebook. It's very simple, quick access to it from the browser toolbar button and uses your same google account (I love the way you can use anything google with your one account).

So for simplicity I use google notebook. I would like to get into the habit more of using google calendar too.

[dor]

Originally Posted by trekr5

I borrowed an excellent tip from someone here on the board...

Make up a powerpoint presentation of your intentions and then run it on our computer..almost like a screensaver. That's what I've done so I'm reminded constantly of where I want to be in my life

great idea!
there is also some product that you can make flash files into screen savers -In flash you can almost make a 'trailer' of your goal.... I made a goal page for my browser too - that pops up as my home page but i think its good to keep it updated or changed otherwise fades into the background...but hey maybe that's good

[jandrewbentley]

Simpleology: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want

I really like this place.

Also, OneNote is one of my most favorite ways to organize myself digitally.

[sanjay71]

hello everyone,

there is one software which i wanted to tell you about it. this is a goal software but it is very different from other goals softwares. it is based on the law of attraction, intention manifestation. when you write a goal in this software than it will pressure you to give the details according to the software instruction. it will definately take time to even enter one goal in this software. but when you finished it than you find that what are your limiting belief that holding you back, it also tell the chakra status, many many other things. i like to tell you about it. it also has the free trial. i think you like it. Prova LifeGoals Effortless Achiever+

sanjay sharma, india

[aabukar]

I also recommend oneNote .. if you are looking for writing a journal, a to-do-list it is the best in my point of view. actually it is too flexible but if you are creative you can design its stationary in a way that would best fit you and ur needs

[goalenforcer]

If you are open-minded and enjoy new and interesting approaches, take a look at GoalEnforcer GoalEnforcer - Goal Setting, Goal Planning, Goal Managing

[SeanYuriua]

I'm using MyLifeOrganized (:: My Life Organized :: Task Management Software) on both Desktop and PDA. Quite impressive tool.
Sean