Implementing GTD

Firetask is strongly inspired by David Allen's Getting Things Done approach to task management, but of course with its own "spin".

Implementing GTD

The main Firetask user interface is basically built around David Allen's GTD process grouping all major views into the areas Capture, Focus, and Organize. The idea behind this is that you can easily focus on the views and lists that you will need most often depending on the GTD process step you are currently in.

• Capture is designed to make it easy for you to collect your thoughts and ideas in your Inbox.
• Focus provides quick access to the lists that you need when focusing on the tasks you need to do "Today" (all explicitly focused tasks and all tasks that are due or scheduled for today), or if you have additional time, what you can do "Next" (tasks that are focused as Next or due in the next days). Additionally, the Focus area also hosts the "Waiting" list, in our opinion one of the best concepts of GTD: a single list that shows you all tasks that you have delegated to other people, i.e., tasks that you are waiting for./li>
• Manage is the place where you manage your General task list and where you create and manage projects and portfolios.
• More mainly contains the GTD Someday/Maybe list.

A good way to not forget about your weekly GTD review is to create a repeating task and really complete the task each time you are finished with a review. If you also want to reserve some explicit time of day for the review we suggest to put this instead into your calendar app of choice.

The global categories filter is stays active across views -- allowing you to filter any view or list in any perspective. The Kanban and Calendar views are now available in any actionable list (all tasks, portfolios, projects) as view types (perspectives).

We have put a lot of thought into our implementation of the GTD process and also continue to constantly rethink, refine and improve our interpretation of the Getting Things Done approach. We hope that Firetask helps you with your personal take on GTD and are happy about any feedback you can provide us -- of course including suggestions for improvements!

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