Your soon-to-be-favorite app is brewing inside the PowerBook. It finally has a name — KaDo List. Here’s a peek at the progress:

The picture above shows a new project being created. The drop down sheet has a spot for your overall vision of the project’s successful outcome. This information, along with other details, is available in a drawer for tweaking later during your weekly review.

This screenshot shows the main Project view with the filtering level set at “All.” Here we have created actions for this new project and assigned them to the appropriate contexts. This view serves mostly as a planning view but can also be used when knocking out tasks for a single project at a time.

This last image shows the Context view for “Calls” filtered by Next Action. The call to the VP about our Flying Car project is the very next physical action for this project. Thanks to the filter bar, no other actions are clouding the focus.

So what’s with the Airport-looking button in the toolbar? One click, and it will synchronize with a forthcoming web app which will also allow access from web-enabled mobile phones.

None of the above is set in stone, of course. I have been listening to all of your comments and emails, incorporating your feedback into what you see above. Thank you for your encouragement. That, plus my coffee habit, are fueling the 1.0 release of this app.

Three recent blog entries covering GTD, Apple, and Social Software are worth mentioning. First, PigPog mentioned the practice of “processing whilst collecting” (which is of course an option in my forthcoming GTD app). One important item was surprisingly missing from his GTD workflow list — delegation. This wasn’t quite enough to trigger a blog post, but then I saw the 43 Folders entry regarding Apple’s move toward social software and decided to connect some dots for those interested.

Think about it…Macs connected to one another using a ToDo service that allows flagging of actionable items in any app that uses this service. All of your actions in emails, or wherever they show up, can be tied together in an app delivered to you by yours truly. This, plus the ability to quickly delegate an item directly to someone else in your “network” while eliminating the time wasting process of copying into an email, getting the wording just right, sending, having the person on the other end lose it in an overflowing Inbox or slowly move it to their own ToDo list…all of this could be massively upgraded.

I have not personally seen the hooks available into the forthcoming OS release from Apple, but either way my app should be able to provide this smooth passing of the buck. (Did I say that? I meant to say delegation.) More to come on the delegation methods in a future post!

Things are coming along nicely for the new GTD app. It allows management of Projects, Actions, and Contexts, plus it has a nice little Inbox for collection. The missing link at the moment is that transition from Inbox to Action/Reference/Delegation, etc.

If you have an opinion about this, please chime in. How would you like to deal with your Inbox items in a GTD app? There are a couple of ways that I can see, but perhaps you will have a better idea. The way I see it, you can:

• Deal with the entire list of Inbox items in a Mac-ish table view, or…
• You can deal with them one-at-a-time in a more strict GTD way

The second option would be a method that followed very closely the process diagram in David Allen’s book (the one on page 36). This would be more like a step-by-step screen gently prodding you to make the clear decisions required for each Inbox item, eliminating extra “fiddliness” as Merlin might call it.

What do you think? Feel free to post or email my first name at this domain name.