Don’t ridicule.

While continuing to get my life in order, I plan to start Getting Things Done.  Maybe not to the letter, but certianly to the spirit.

Anyway, I often find myself making to-do lists, or jotting random stuff down, and usually I’ll do a Start|Run notepad and jot a few line items.  By the end of the day I have several whatever.txt files on my desktop, and they build up.  Someone out there please confirm if you do the same?  Tell me I’m not an aberration.  I need validation!

Whoa.  Ok.  Back to reality.  So in addition to all the notepad files, I might jot some stuff on a Post-It, or if I’m feeling a more orderly list coming on, put some stuff in an excel file, and so on.  All that adds up to is a bunch of scattered to-do notes that you may or may not remember to go back to, may or may not find, and may or may not remember.

So one of the things about GTD is that you basically brain-dump things into an “inbox” as soon as they come to mind.  No organization, not nothing, just dump them out of your brain and into something where you know you will find them and deal with them.  Instead of doing that…I made NBoxx.  It’s a very very simple WinForms app that manages a single to-do list, meant to be your to-do “inbox” (get it?  clever huh?).  The idea is that you have one list, one place to go, no scattered text files or whatever, and you work from that list like you would a paper inbox.  From here you can quickly dump items in, and remove them as they are completed.  It’s a good place to do a daily review, all that jazz.  No categories.  No separation.  No ordering.  Single point of entry, single point of escape, it’s an inbox.

Anyway, I really made this for me, but figured what the hell, maybe someone will like it.  If not…whatever.  If you do download it, it requires .Net 2.0 and you can contact me with questions or feature requests or whatever (no guarantees I’ll do any of them).  But if you do end up using it or have feedback seriously let me know, I’d like to know if someone is actually finding use for something I made and if I do upgrades (I may add functionality in the future) then I’ll post about them if I know people are using it.

Enough rambling.  Get it here.