GTD
The five second test
During the design stages of Harmony GTD I created a wide variety of possible layouts, logos and themes; deciding which to use was a real problem as I needed a visual identity that people could remember and most importantly associate with task management.
Our opinion is often formed within the first five-seconds of viewing a site; a great tool to find out your users initial reaction is appropriately called “Fivesecondtest”. The site works by showing users your design for five-seconds and then asking them to list five things that they remember.
Many of the mockups and designs had a 60’s theme with the intended atmosphere of a friendly and easy to use site; however when these designs were shown to users through the fivesecondtest website most only remembered the distinctive theme and none of the task management text or branding. To convey our intended visual identity every single element of the site needed to be in some way associated with task management; out went the other artwork and in came notepads, calendars and other task related imagery. After a few more design iterations all of the users responses were related to task management and GTD, success.
Our opinion is often formed within the first five-seconds of viewing a site; a great tool to find out your users initial reaction is appropriately called “Fivesecondtest”. The site works by showing users your design for five-seconds and then asking them to list five things that they remember.
Many of the mockups and designs had a 60’s theme with the intended atmosphere of a friendly and easy to use site; however when these designs were shown to users through the fivesecondtest website most only remembered the distinctive theme and none of the task management text or branding. To convey our intended visual identity every single element of the site needed to be in some way associated with task management; out went the other artwork and in came notepads, calendars and other task related imagery. After a few more design iterations all of the users responses were related to task management and GTD, success.
Getting Things Done
05/03/10 13:56 Filed in: Projects
Harmony GTD was launched on the 1st of March 2010, the initial response to the site has been very good and there are now quite a few registered users. We have been featured and reviewed on a couple of sites and lots of people are talking about it; Twitter has been an invaluable tool and is really helping us attract new users to the site.
The iPhone and Prism Apps help Harmony GTD stand out from some of the other tools and provide two great ways of using the GTD system. Hopefully we can continue development and further improve upon these Apps to provide even more functionality.
I will continue to update this blog with news and status updates on the site that I hope will prove useful to anyone starting a similar project.
The iPhone and Prism Apps help Harmony GTD stand out from some of the other tools and provide two great ways of using the GTD system. Hopefully we can continue development and further improve upon these Apps to provide even more functionality.
I will continue to update this blog with news and status updates on the site that I hope will prove useful to anyone starting a similar project.
Harmony GTD released!
12/01/10 11:33 Filed in: Projects
Harmony GTD
31/12/09 19:50 Filed in: Projects
“Harmony GTD” is the name of my upcoming GTD web-app.
I first started working with the GTD process whilst at University; David Allen’s philosophy really enabled me to better manage my assignments and other commitments. When given the choice for my final year project I leapt at the chance to develop my own GTD site.
Numerous reports, documents, presentations and one very comprehensive thesis later I had a fully functional and well documented GTD site. Whilst I was very happy with my work I also knew that there were areas in which I could develop further and improve on. Since then I have often thought of continuing the development of the GTD project however felt that the existing architecture and design choices held me back from my new ideas and goals.
This is where Harmony GTD comes in; it is a completely new project and has been coded from the ground-up to be fast, streamlined and user friendly. The whole design is minimal and is designed to keep out of the users way whilst they work with the GTD process.
The name of the site took careful consideration as I wanted something which really represented the sites purpose and not just a meaningless web 2.0 word. The name was chosen as I believe that by using the GTD philosophy the user does experience harmony and peace in knowing that their tasks are safe in the trusted system and can be acted on or added to at any time.
Numerous other GTD web-apps have come and gone however I hope that Harmony GTD will be able to overcome the other sites problems and design flaws and shine as a unique and well thought out GTD system that anyone can use.
Update: Harmony GTD is now online at: www.harmonygtd.com
I first started working with the GTD process whilst at University; David Allen’s philosophy really enabled me to better manage my assignments and other commitments. When given the choice for my final year project I leapt at the chance to develop my own GTD site.
Numerous reports, documents, presentations and one very comprehensive thesis later I had a fully functional and well documented GTD site. Whilst I was very happy with my work I also knew that there were areas in which I could develop further and improve on. Since then I have often thought of continuing the development of the GTD project however felt that the existing architecture and design choices held me back from my new ideas and goals.
This is where Harmony GTD comes in; it is a completely new project and has been coded from the ground-up to be fast, streamlined and user friendly. The whole design is minimal and is designed to keep out of the users way whilst they work with the GTD process.
The name of the site took careful consideration as I wanted something which really represented the sites purpose and not just a meaningless web 2.0 word. The name was chosen as I believe that by using the GTD philosophy the user does experience harmony and peace in knowing that their tasks are safe in the trusted system and can be acted on or added to at any time.
Numerous other GTD web-apps have come and gone however I hope that Harmony GTD will be able to overcome the other sites problems and design flaws and shine as a unique and well thought out GTD system that anyone can use.
Update: Harmony GTD is now online at: www.harmonygtd.com
A new web-host
08/05/09 17:46 Filed in: Site News
Version2software has recently moved to Little Oak hosting, they specialize in supporting Rapid-Weaver users and provide a great personal service.
Things To Do
24/01/09 09:45 Filed in: Projects
The Getting Things Done (GTD) philosophy has inspired the creation of many tools using different approaches to achieve the aims of GTD. From Online web-services such as "Remember the Milk" to Desktop Apps such as Things or Omnifocus there is a solution for every platform and budget.
If you have been following my twitter account you may already know that I have started developing my own GTD App that attempts to address some of the issues with the existing approaches to GTD.
If you have been following my twitter account you may already know that I have started developing my own GTD App that attempts to address some of the issues with the existing approaches to GTD.
To-do mini
14/12/08 14:41 Filed in: Dashboard Widgets
“To-do mini” has all the great features of “To-Do” but with a very compact interface.
To-do list
06/09/08 14:20 Filed in: Dashboard Widgets
To-do allows you to quickly note down important things to do. Clicking the cross next to the to-do item allows you to easily mark the task as completed; the list automatically re-orders itself so that your next to-do is always at the top. All to-do entries are auto-saved and loaded the next time you use To-do.
Features in development include:
Integrating the GTD (Getting Things Done) workflow process which consists of five steps: Collect, Process, Organise, Review, Do. This will be a major addition to the widget and will add categories, tags, actions, due dates and more.
Features in development include:
Integrating the GTD (Getting Things Done) workflow process which consists of five steps: Collect, Process, Organise, Review, Do. This will be a major addition to the widget and will add categories, tags, actions, due dates and more.