MonkeyGTD

Well, I continue my search for a GTD tool that meets my needs. Today I looked at MonkeyGTD.

MonkeyGTD is based on TiddlyWiki, which is essentially a self-updating .html file. TiddlyWiki uses some scary-smart JavaScript to let you make your own wiki, along the lines of Wikipedia and such. It's meant to be used to build and maintain your own personal knowledgebase.

MonkeyGTD starts with TiddlyWiki's scary-smart JavaScript but pumps it full of steroids and trains it in the fine art of GTD. The result is some truly stunning technology. The people who built this are simply geniuses.

However, MonkeyGTD doesn't meet my needs for a GTD tool. Essentially it's just too complex to use.

If I jumped into MonkeyGTD I think I'd figure it out in not too long. But that's beside the point. By figuring out MonkeyGTD's view of the world, I think that my mind would set up a whole translation schema and I would be constantly (subconsciously) translating or mapping my natural, stress-free way of managing tasks into MonkeyGTD's paradigms. And I think that would introduce stress, even subconscious stress, into my task management. That means I wouldn't use it effectively and it could no longer be my *trusted* system.

That's a (hopefully) thoughtful and elegant way of saying I'm too lazy to figure out how to use MonkeyGTD.

Key requirements for my GTD tool(s): simple to use, easy to adapt, and little or no need to read the documentation.

Maybe that's why there are so many different GTD tools out there: Everyone looks at task management differently and therefore everyone needs different tools.

I would really recommend MonkeyGTD to other people looking for GTD tools. It's just not the one for me.