Are you a procrastinator? Do you struggle to move forward the things you care about in life? Then you should seriously look into the GTD approach (gee, sounds cultish, doesn’t it?)
Software from this contest ought to be judged based on two criteria…
How feasible is it to make the software, what sort of market is there for the software.
In other words, I know your vote counts…. and I’m trying to encourage you to vote for iGTD
Feasiblity
This is the critical edge. How easily can your software be brought to market?
I sat down and looked, really, really looked at what sort of possibilities. I took ten minutes (don’t just vote, be an informed voter) and put the list of the apps in order based on the reality of what they do… and saw some startling surprises. I think that a bunch of the apps will be difficult (some almost impossible) to develop. I’ve worked closely with programmers for 20+ years; I hear their frustrations when it’s difficult to implement something the designer thought was “easy”.
I’m not going to share that list with you. I think you need to make your own list. Besides, it’s too early to poke holes in other people’s dreams.
What I will share is that iGTD would be fairly easy to design (sure eye candy is nice, and I have ideas about eye candy…) but the GTD process is well defined.
Collect, Process, Organize, Do, Review.
That’s it. It’s the moving of your Next Possible Actions of any given Project forward.
Market
There are two markets out there. People who use GTD and people who don’t know about it.
Market one is easy - If you’ve adopted the GTD program, and have a Mac you’re going to buy this software.
I am an early adopter. I had a 128k Mac, a first generation iPod and a first Generation Tivo. There are lots of people using GTD. Just type GTD into Google and you’ll know. I’m telling you, that if you’ve never heard of GTD before this contest, within the year, someone you know, will have picked it up and it will revolutionize the way they order their life.
I hear the voice in your head: But Jeff, what about the people who don’t use GTD?. iGTD will walk them through two or three prebuilt, realistic project, such as Finding a new Vet, getting the oil changed in your car, or Improving their finances, by showing them how the whole workflow works.
Best of luck to everyone, I’ve made my votes.
