
I’ve been using a free GTD system called Tracks for about a month now. From their web site:
Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like. It can be run on any platform on which Ruby can be installed, including Mac OS X, Windows XP and Linux. Tracks is Open Source, free and licensed under the GNU GPL.
So far I’m really diggin’ it. I installed it on an Ubuntu server in my office so I can always access it from my laptops or my iPhone. The application is very, very straightforward and does a good job of giving me the tools I need and none of the tools that I don’t. The mobile version (included) is also implemented very well, allowing you to enter tasks and projects quickly from your phone.
If you’ve been looking for a simple task management system you can run locally and access from many devices, Tracks might just be for you.


Today is my dad’s birthday so I decided to post a video of his granddaughter having a good time in celebration (well, we’ll pretend she actually knows it’s his birthday). I used my new iPhone 3Gs since I didn’t feel like busting out the regular video camera and going through all the importing and exporting jazz.



Zynga did a great job building Mafia Wars, but the sometimes the integration between the game and Facebook limits how efficiently you can do things. In order to make some of the more mundane tasks easier, use Bobby Heartrate’s Mafia Tools. They are a collection of bookmarklets that you can drag and drop onto your Firefox or Internet Explorer toolbar. They give you the ability to do things like switching quickly between someone’s Facebook and Mafia Wars profiles. Another handy bookmarklet allows you to add someone to your mafia while viewing their Facebook profile page.
