HeySage

In this episode The Sage shows you how to add tasks to iGTD via Quicksilver (difficulty level: intermediate).

Quick side note. In this episode The Sage decided to embed a flash version of the movie. In order to get the video to fit on the page the resolution had to be decreased. Thus, the video is a little bit small. The Sage tried to compensate by zooming into the quicksilver dialog but the resolution is quite poor. The Sage will decrease the screen capture area in future episodes to alleviate this problem. The traditional quicktime link is here.

iGTD is a donation ware application developed by Bartek Bargiel that incorporates some of the concepts of the Getting Things Done methodology and makes them easy to implement in your every day life. Think of it as an OS X way to organize your life by context and project.

One of the greatest things about iGTD is that it integrates with Growl and Quicksilver, two of The Sage’s favorite Mac applications. To add a task to iGTD via Quicksilver the steps are as follows.

1. Choose a context, project, due date, and priority rating for your task. In the screencast the context is Computing, the project is HeySage, the due date is today, and the priority is urgent.
2. Launch Quicksilver (⌃spacebar)
3. Type . to launch text edit mode in quicksilver
4. Type @ and the context (e.g. @Computing). You do not need to type the entire context. You only need enough for iGTD to recognize it as unique.
5. Type the project name enclosed by brackets ([HeySage])
6. Type the name of the task (e.g. Create iGTD to Quicksilver ScreenCast)
7. Type !! for urgent. The scale ranges from !! (urgent) to ??(not urgent).
8. Type #theday (e.g. #friday or #today or #sat etc. etc.)
9. Tab to the Action pane in Quicksilver.
10. Type p to display, “Put into iGTD Inbox” and hit ⌅

That’s it. Let’s summarize

@Com [HeySage] Create iGTD to Quicksilver ScreenCast !! #today

This may seem a little daunting at first but becomes extremely useful.

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