Wondering what the Getting Things Done (GTD) method is and how to implement it? We explore GTD by David Allen and rank the 14 best GTD apps.

A minimal clone of Wunderlist, with 30% of its features. GTD oriented. It stores the task list in a hidden JSON file in the home directory, making it easy to backup or share them.

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The agenda is one of the unsung power tools of GTD.

etm provides a simple, intuitive format for using plain text files to store data, a command line interface for viewing events and tasks in a variety of convenient ways and a cross-platform, wx(python)-based GUI for creating and modifying events and tasks as well as viewing them. Displayed items can be grouped by year, month, day, week number, quarter, context, keyword, location, user, file and/or priority and can be filtered in comparable ways. The display shows the number of items and time totals broken down by group headings. A display of busy and free times is also supported. Alarms are supported for events and repetition for both events and tasks in a powerful and flexible manner.

todo.txt-cli - A simple and extensible shell script for managing your todo.txt file.

When is an extremely simple personal calendar program, aimed at the Unix geek who wants something minimalistic.

QTodoTxt - Cross Platform todo.txt GUI

by Jeff Archibald

It’s easy to be busy; it’s hard to be productive. Raise your hand if you’ve spent entire days answering "quick" email after "quick" email; spent hours in your task manager organizing your tasks for productivity; spent a half-day organizing tidying up old design files; or looked back on your week and realized you worked your ass off, but you’re not really sure what you actually accomplished.

Bad news, those with raised hands: you’re a victim of false hustle.

Taskwarrior is an open-source cross platform command-line task management tool. It allows you to capture, annotate, manipulate and present your tasks, then sync them among devices.

GTD—or “Getting things done”—is a framework for organizing and tracking your tasks and projects. Its aim is a bit higher than just “getting things done”, though. (It should have been called “Getting things done in a much better way than just letting things happen, which often turns out not to be very cool at all”.) Its aim is to make you have 100% trust in a system for collecting tasks, ideas, and projects—both vague things like “invent greatest thing ever” and concrete things like “call Ada 25 August to discuss cheesecake recipe”. Everything!

Sound like all other run-of-the-mill to-do list systems, you say? Well in many ways it is, but there is more to it, and it’s really simple. Promise! So please read on.

Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.

Super-powerful Emacs plugin to manage outlines with associated timestamps, priorities, labels, etc.; available views grouped by time (agenda), tags, etc.; plain text storage format.