| | |||||||
| Register | FAQ | Members List | Calendar | Search | Today's Posts | Mark Forums Read |
| Technology & Technical Skills Computer skills, hardware, software, internet topics, gadgets, programming |
|
Welcome to the Personal Development for Smart People Forums, the place for lively, intelligent discussion of all personal growth issues -- physical, mental, financial, social, emotional, spiritual, and more. You're currently viewing as a guest, which gives you limited read-only access. By joining our free community, you'll be able to post your own messages, access many members-only features, see the new messages posted since your last visit, and of course remove this header message. Registration is fast, simple, and free, so please join today. If you arrived here from a search engine, you may want to explore the main site first, which includes hundreds of deep and insightful articles on a variety of personal development topics. |
| | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
| |||
| Can anyone recommend good personal development software out there? Any genre really - just curious as to what is out there that has really worked for people.
__________________ Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| |||
| What helped me alot was "The Journal" by David RM Software - i keep track of all kinds of special days, dates and such in it. Also i´m journaling my thoughts in there, even use it to store bookmarks, winamp livestreams, pictures, mindmaps and so much more - great piece of software! |
| |||
| I like Backpack by 37 Signals ... it has a great set of tools for collecting and organising ideas and information. Basic edition is free, and than various enhancements are available in the paid versions. Plus, the interface and design are really good. Excellent source of inspiration for my own software development.
__________________ toby hede --------------- Toby Hede’s Blog on Ruby, Rails, User Experience and Stuff Need help with a technology project: Hire Toby ================================================ FiniteStateMachine - Software Development for Social Networks ================================================ |
| |||
| I really like Tracks It's a GTD organizer written in Ruby on Rails. If you don't want to invest the time to get Tracks running on your own, here are a few hosted solutions.
__________________ Jim RunFatBoy - Exercise for the rest of us. "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'" -- Jack Kerouac |
| |||
| I organize everything in Outlook. With the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2007 everything is tightly integrated.
__________________ http://miloriano.com: Young man’s journey to become a CEO & succeed |
| |||
| Quote:
|
| |||
| Quote:
|
| |||
| nice little app which runs in Firefox .
__________________ “It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light” -G. K. Chesterton , found at the highly-reccomended"Happiness Project" blog . |
| |||
| Tiddlywiki is a bit of a Swiss Army knife. A wiki in a single file that runs in your browser. |
| |||
| 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! |
| |||
| I know Steve likes and recommends Action Outline for a PIM (Personal Information Manager) and I tried it out as well as several other programs that were recommended in the comments under the relevant post: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/200...ng-mental-ram/ By far the best one that I've found is UltraRecall by Kinook: PIM software for Windows - personal information manager and knowledge manager for Windows It has a lengthy trial period and I really put it to the test. It features a free reader as well so you can keep your database (which is kept as a single file!) with you on a pendrive and use your info on any computer. Very useful for me when I'm trying to share my research notes with others. Web pages, pdf's, all office docs imbed into the interface and can be linked and inter-related within the outline. I just ponied up the $100 for the unlimited pro version and I am continuing to discover more and more useful capabilities. Very cool app. I also use DavidRM Software's The Journal (per Steve's recommendation) and it is an elegant and usefull application that delivers exactly as it should. I axed MS Outlook as soon as Thunderbird was on it's feet and running. I find Outlook bloated and complicated and Outlook Express under featured. Thunderbird works beautifully for me and keeps getting better. I recently added an extension called Reminder Fox which helps me keep track of all my auto-payment schedules as well as all the birthdays and travel dates, etc. You can find it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/1191/ Feel free to ask me anything more. Last edited by wheelie : 11-06-2006 at 03:35 AM. |
| |||
| I like Google Notebook + Google Calendar to implement the GTD system.
__________________ Public Speaker, Writer, Marketer, Gym-o-holic, Loving Husband. |
| |||
| Quote:
For journaling I've been using MacJournal from Mariner software for a couple of years now, a relatively simple way of maintaining an organized collection of entries, and the newest versions have a really useful full screen option for writing without distractions. My only issue with it is that it has started to become heavy with time (currently at around 600k words total) and so I'm sure it's hogging more resources than it should. Might be able to do an archive in it though.
__________________ Everyday Wonderland: A practical guide to spiritual awakening |
| |||
| I've been trying out EverNote - I use it for well, everything, but mostly to jot down my thoughts as I'm doing something else. It helps me to stay focused on a task (a la GTD) without worrying that I'll forget that I need to buy cat litter (or whatever). |
| |||
| I have been using My Life Organized for about a year now and really enjoy it. It's flexiable enough to be used for storing daily tasks, tracking goals, scheduling due dates and more. I looked at other outlining software and this had the right amount of features.
__________________ My Mind Map - Learn about Mind Mapping and download free templates |
| |||
| No one mentioned OneNote. While most of us have get used to MS Office, there are still very exciting things coming from Microsoft. OneNote is the killer note taking application. It allows you to take notes in a very 'holistic' way. (and I don't even like this word!) |
| |||
| Another vote from me for MyLifeOrganized - and the PDA version isn't bad, either. |
| |||
| Quote:
|
| |||
| I use GoalPro, though there are probably better programs as far as organizational ability goes. But I like the way it hierarchically organizes goals and the various progress reports it has. Based on various combinations of log-in frequency, completed goals, tasks, etc. it creates different types of reports and charts. It's rather painful when you see a downward spike, but that's why I like the program: charts don't lie! Has anyone had any experience with Franklin Covey's PlanPlus ?
__________________ Der einzige Weg heraus ist der hindurch. |
| |||
| I use PyGTD. A couple months ago I was looking for a way to start organizing all the tasks on my mental to-do list. I read about GTD [Getting Things Done] and decided it made sense. I then decided I wanted some software to aid me in this advanced listmaking/self organizing ideal. I went through many programs, many of which already noted here, and came to the conclusion they were all hard to manipulate and generally Bloated software. I stumbled upon PyGTD. I originally thought it would be too difficult to use, but I am now in love. PyGTD is a python script that organizes a to-do list based upon entries you put into different categories. For each entry, you use a code to put in urgency and importance, due dates, and even how often you want a task to recur. Example of something you would put into a category file: * Morning Review C=0 I=5 U=4 T=1H D=2004-11-08 S=0D R=2004-11-01+1W ID=1 1. Review upcoming tasks and appointments T=10M 2. Clear your head T=20M C is for percent of completion, I is for importance, U is for urgency, T is for estimated amount of time it'll take you to complete, D is the date you want this to pop up, R is the recurrance. ID is generated by the script. This isn't even really a program in the way you may normal think of them. You edit text files and run a python script to generate a new text file based on the priorities you state (even which categories you want to work with at the time). This concept may take some getting used to. Read the site and the couple pages of documentation, and you, like me, may like what you find. |
| |||
| Welcome to AbstractSpoon Software - Where everything is TodoList (Windows), best free desktop todo list program |
| |||
| Quote:
I use MonkeyGTD (http://monkeygtd.tiddlyspot.com/). Last edited by oliodu : 11-07-2006 at 11:08 AM. Reason: quote too long |
| |||
| I second TodoList as it is easy, straightforward and best of all it is FREE!
__________________ Kind Regards, Maher F. Farag http://www.ancientsoft.com (addictive games, tools and VB ActiveX) http://www.ancientsoftgames.com (Under construction) http://www.osakit.com (Bring your game online in minutes) |

