Can't....make...a...mockup....worth...a....damn.
I don’t know about other entrants. I really wouldn’t know how to mock something up, if you paid me. But I did. It took forever.
I have some ideas in my head about how the app should look. This isn’t it. It’s a working model (please, please PLEASE, feel free to give your ideas. Or mockups.)
I’m not a software designer. I have no real clue about what I’m doing.
But I know that You’re going to live out of (mostly) your daily review.
So, I envision that it welcomes you by name, you choose a context (in this case work) and that you can rearrange the items to your liking.
When you’d mouse over an item it’d open up (like a web 2.0 item) to reveal/notes details (or perhaps also have a line of such). Perhaps when you click, a popup (like DVDSP, or Motion) asks about the status (Done, perhaps deferred and to whom)
On the right sidebar would be the Upcoming events on your calendar (you can pick how many days ahead). Critical note: Only those things go on your calendar that have to be done on at specific time. The GTD mentality, is that you choose what the next best thing to do, given the context of where you’re at. Since items on the calendar have to be done at a specific time/date that’s when they get scheduled. You don’t put frivolous things there.
There’d be some tab on the upper right to switch to your week view.
A crappier (and took my poor skills forever) idea of perhaps what the “collection” phase would look like:
You’d probably still need a widget of when the app is closed (to add stuff on the fly).
A bucket is where you hold different items before you process them.
The time reminder is how long it’s been since you handled that bucket.
You need to track what different buckets you have (and remember to empty them regularly). Otherwise you don’t trust your system.
Some of these buckets are electronic - such as your Apple Mail inbox that you built that’s a “smart folder”. Some might be folders on your system - you’d toss documents there that you mean to give to specific projects (and iGTD would spotlight tag these items - and automove them to a folder structure on your machine - keeping your documents organized).
Some would be physical, like the voice recorder in my Treo phone, the basket where I toss my bills when I get home, or the notebook you keep by your bed, in case you get a brilliant idea in the middle of the night.
