Aggregating Plans

Posted by yrashk

As you may know, I blog on GTD-related topics from time to time

I was trying to use various planning tools to organize my work—Basecamp, iCal.app, Highrise, Google Calendar, DEVONthink Pro Office, and plenty of others. Each tool has its benefits and downsides but no one is a silver bullet (yea, I know, there is no silver bullet). Using few tools is a workaround that may work for someone, but not for me. I just losing focus, forgetting about one or another tool, getting tired when I should not be, etc.

What if someone will try to not to create a new shiny planning tool, but rather an aggregator for existing? Some kind of tool, that will be able to sync multiple icals, feeds and propriertary formats, and what is also important, being able to post events to the respective sources. Getting all this stuff in one place will make my planning much more perfect and will save me time. I’d personally would love to pay for it.

Basically, it could be even a desktop (OSX ;) app. I’d like to not to stop planning and going through the plan while I’m not online. Just some simple synchronization with servers when internet is back available and voila! I’m happy.

P.S. I’ve opened Xcode after writing this post. Let’s see what I can do to help myself.