Here’s a link to it: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=116&modelid=17406

Mac Mail, iCal, and Address Book come with your Mac. So does Time Machine (for backups).

Firefox, NetNewsWire, and Tweetdeck need to be downloaded, but are free.

OmniFocus does cost something. Jott for iPhone either costs a few dollars or is free, but requires a paid monthly subscription of $8 or so.

MindManager, OmniGraffle, and Quicken cost. I’d still have MindManager and Quicken on a PC, though, and Visio in place of OmniGraffle.

Microsoft Office is relatively expensive, in my opinion, but I think that Apple’s iWork may be more reasonable.

Thanks for a very helpful site!

(Sorry to be slow to respond, but I have been away from my office with very little Internet access.)

For instant messaging, I use iChat and, sometimes, Google Chat. But I don’t do much instant messaging at my laptop as of yet. I do text message a lot via my iPhone when on the go or when I just need to touch base with someone real quick on something.

David Allen made the point that social networking tools are like another virtual inbox. He wasn’t saying that’s bad, just that it’s another point of input that implies the question “is there any action here?” But there are rarely action items (unlike email), so it’s more like listening to the radio, except it’s real people, and you can participate.

I had Tweetdeck on all day the other day with its default alarm going off every time there was a new tweet. That was distracting. But if, like email, you don’t have it up continually, but check in batches, it doesn’t have to be distracting.

David Allen is on Twitter now. He also has an article on the productive use of social media, which I linked to in one of my posts within the last couple of weeks.

Matt, since you mentioned Twitter.. What’s your take on it? useful in any way? i’ve avoided it because i’m assuming it will be a huge distraction. curious what your opinion is from a GTD standpoint.

Interesting that you have switched to Curio — I’ll have to check that out.

Here’s how I use my moleskine. Actually, this interchange is a real-life example. I want to check out Curio, but can’t do it now. So I jot down into my moleskine “check out Curio.” Throughout the day, stuff like that collects in my moleskine.

Every morning or so, I process it like an inbox. I do the less than two-minute stuff, and put the other stuff on action lists or in project plans, etc.

There’s more to it also — I’ll flesh out ideas in there sometimes and so forth, but its main function is as an inbox that captures action items.

The reason I don’t just put those items into my OmniFocus in is that I find it faster to write down in my Moleskine. That also works well when I am away from a computer.

Matt