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!