Hi Phillip, I, and I would suspect many others, really appreciate your valuable insights in this thread about how to position Chandler. I am not quite following what you've written about Chandler and its suitability for use with the religion of GTD (love the analogy) and wanted to offer some thoughts. Echoing one of your comments, perhaps I also have a profound misunderstanding of GTD or Chandler (or both). You mention a LifeBalance application, and I'm assuming you mean the Life Balance app by Llamagraphics. Having used the Life Balance application for many years, I don't understand how either the Chandler app or the Life Balance app actively discourages (or encourages, for that matter) turning stuff into action according to the precepts of GTD any more than or less than a 3X5 card does.
Might it be that a kind of philosophy/religion of Chandler Triage is what is diametrically opposed to the philosophy/religion of GTD as compared to the product of Chandler? Assuming even a religion of Chandler Triage that has influenced the design of the Chandler product, for me, to date, the religion of Chandler Triage is separable from the product of Chandler. It may be that as I use Chandler with GTD that I would be graded as failing to apply Chandler Triage. However, similarly, when I use Life Balance with GTD, I fail at making any use of the application's namesake, that is, at using the Balance tab to balance my efforts across the top-level-items (LB-speak) in my Life Balance outline. When I was using only Life Balance for day-to-day GTD, the most significant selling point for me was that my information was accessible from the tools I predominantly used then, Windows-based PCs and a Palm, not the innovative tools intended to aid the balancing of one's efforts across different arenas of life. I like and use (in my own way perhaps) the Chandler triage features, but the current, most significant selling point for me for Chandler is the CalDAV-based workflows for sharing of items regardless of kind, that is, not only calendar items, with or without the rites of Chandler Triage, or GTD for that matter. Thanks, Andre Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Except we are not actually *addressing* that problem, because Chandler > actively *discourages* turning "stuff" into action. This is the place > where it diametrically opposes the GTD philosophy, which states that > the only way to actually get things done is to convert your "stuff" > into actions that are concrete. > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
