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Six free GTD apps ranked by how completely each one runs the capture-clarify-organize loop at $0: quik.md for voice-first capture, Super Productivity for open-source purists, plus the Apple, Google, and Microsoft defaults, with honest notes on what each free tier actually covers.
GTD maps cleanly onto a developer workflow once you stop trying to run your life out of GitHub issues. This guide covers the issue-tracker boundary, markdown files as projects, coding agents as delegates on your waiting-for list, and a weekly review that measures shipped work instead of started work.
The two-minute rule is GTD's simplest instruction and its most misunderstood one. This explainer covers where David Allen's rule came from, why the math behind it holds, the mornings where it quietly wrecks your priorities, and the voice-capture twist that makes deferring nearly as cheap as doing.
A GTD inbox works when three things hold: few capture points, a fixed processing routine, and a daily emptying cadence. This walkthrough covers the physical and digital setup, the clarify-first processing rules, and the weekly review that keeps the system trusted.
The GTD weekly review is the habit that keeps the rest of the method alive. This guide walks the clear, current, and creative phases with realistic timing, the checklist that actually gets used, and the fixes for the failure modes that kill the review in the first month.
Many people with ADHD find voice notes more reliable than typed task lists, and the reasons line up with what we know about working memory and friction. This piece covers why, plus a practical setup that keeps captured thoughts moving instead of piling up.
whisper.cpp is the C and C++ port of OpenAI Whisper that runs fully offline, with model sizes from 75 MB to 2.9 GB and accuracy that scales with size. This guide covers install, batch transcription of voice memos, the limits, and where a managed tool fills the gaps.
A voice brain dump is ten minutes of unstructured talking followed by AI filing and a two-minute review. Speaking beats typing for unloading because speech has no cursor and no backspace. This guide covers the ritual, the failure modes, and the daily version.
Capturing tasks by voice only works if the whole motion takes two seconds. This guide covers the 2-second rule, phrasing that files cleanly, where captures should land, and the review habit that keeps the loop closed.
Why a folder of plain text files outlives every task app you will ever try: portability, search, version control, and zero lock-in, plus the honest tradeoffs (no reminders, no sync magic) and the minimal setup that actually sticks.
