For me Remember the Milk scratched my itch for awhile (and I contemplated potentially using that web service as the GTD engine for CollectiveGTD or a Django project), though now I’ve gone totally desktop-based with OmniFocus.

This took the form of CollectiveGTD for Plone 3 and has some core GTD features.

I wasn’t able to wrangle up fellow open-source developers, so it didn’t reach critical mass, and I’ve moved on to other projects, though the code is available.

From a Plone perspective, the “date conversion from english to a real date” could be simplified — or rather replaced with existing libraries. I wouldn’t write the server-based conversation code again, and today would use jQuery instead of KSS for the ajax pieces. There are also existing javascript libraries that could do the conversion on the client. There are pros and cons of both approaches.

Also, the product supports unicode, and works internationally, but is not localized.

-Bri

I’m interested in possibly collaborating on your Python GTD library as it is something I’ve been thinking about working on lately.

-Dinh-

I’d love to hear what you think of Chandler. I’ve been peeking at it for years now and this last release had some really interesting GTD-type features. Seems like in a couple releases it will be nice for small teams.

Steve

My favorite tool at the moment is OmniFocus

I have come to feel that from a users prospective GTD needs to be primarily a desktop application program that syncs with a central server. The central server should then provide a web interface as a alternative method.

The Chandler Project is taking just this approach. http://chandlerproject.org/ and they finally are issuing functional preview releases. Chandler is built with Python so it looks like there would be a good set of API tools.

I am waiting Apple’s upcoming icalendar server tools that should be part of Leopard http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

I think that it would be best for Plone to do a first rate integration with a project like Chandler than trying to build from scratch. Look at how long Chandler has been in development.

Let us know how you move on…

As a first step, which is actually planned to be a 4 day “sprint” I and
Daniel Nouri will work on some base framework for Plone — one feature
I really wanted for sooo long time in plone will be developed there: A
Mail-In gateway. I want this to have something like the 47signals guys
do with their backpack stuff: intelligently parsing mails to appointments,
tasks, todos. I want to be able to just forward mail to a plone instance, and
have some rule-based thing create content out of that.

So, a Framework for the GTD Action/Context/Project stuff would be great.

I think, though, that what Plone would offer is much more: The ability to “mark” any content as Action/Context/Project at will like the Plone for Artists
guys do (Hey Nate )

The most difficult thing (for me) would be the User Interface, which has to be
very clean.

I’ll be at the Plone Conference ‘07, too, so there would be the possibility to collaborate at the after-the-conf sprint.

You might want to have a look at Remember the Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com) which is a multi-user GTD app with a lot of nice Ajax functionality. We have been using it at Jazkarta to keep track of internal tasks.

You can also forward emails and they appear in your GTD inbox, which is really nice for turning an email into an actionable item.

I’ve tried all the GTD apps that Limi mentions above including KGTD, but found that this web-based one works for my needs right now.

I might have another look at Omnifocus when it is finally released.