I just recently decided to look into a new GTD (Getting Things Done) solution for myself.  I want a tool that I can use on both my Macbook Pros, and and my iPhone.  Ideally, they should be able to sync with each other.  Bonus points if the iPhone syncs wirelessly. 

Anyway, I’m looking at two great looking products.  The first is OmniFocus.  This is a really nice looking product.  Very complete, with tons of features and a lot of flexibility in how you GTD.  Based on OmniOutliner, which is also a very well designed tool.

The second is called Things.  The nice thing about this product is that it is really well designed.  The folks at Cultured Code definitely put a lot of thought into this great app. It looks great, it has nice features and even though it’s slightly more limited than OmniFocus, it’s still extremely usable.

The one thing that’s not included (yet) in Things is syncing.  I’m hoping that this is done soon, but in the mean time, I heard about a great technology that makes syncing Things between Macs a snap.  It’s called Dropbox.

This is very similar to .mac, however it syncs on the fly, instantly.  So you have a folder called your Dropbox, and every time you copy a file to it, it automatically syncs it to the Dropbox servers.  Then you can access your files from any machine (Mac or PC) or even via a web interface.  Public files can even be accessed through a web link by anyone. 

This is really great technology, but unfortunately it’s not quite ready for prime time yet.  It’s still in beta and if you want to get a look at it, you need an invitation.  I was lucky enough to get an invite from Eric Belanger, and now I have 10 invitations that I can pass on.  So if you want to take a look at Dropbox, post a comment here.  I’ll send invites to the first 10 to ask.

I’ll give my take on GTD apps next time.