Getting Things Done with Tracks

25 January 2007 @ 16:04 | In Software | 3 Comments

It’s been a while since previous posts to the blog, because we have been busy getting things done (GTD), amongst a couple of other things.

Getting Things Done can be carried out with lo-tech tools like pen and paper as in the case of the Hipster PDA, however yours sincerely has an inkling for trying out new software, and thus after trying out a range of different implemetations of GTD (everything from working with plain text files to dedicated productivity software), the current choice of application is Tracks. Tracks is a very pleasant application for GTD built in Ruby on Rails and was installed on my webhost without too much hassle.

Tracks, getting things done software

Tracks is quite fast to work with; everything from adding new projects and next actions to navigating the projects and context pages for the weekly review is fast enough for me. For faster performance the installation on a local server is probably recommended.

A nice detail is that all next actions are available as text and RSS feeds for creating nice overviews of what the next action should be. Tracks is at the time of writing in version 1.043, and we are expecting and anticipating lots of improvements to a already great piece of Free and Open Source Software.

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