Seeing Forests

I occasionally rant about unforeseen substitutes and new entrants into the competitive local mix (have to get some value out of my 20 year-old Porter book). Although out for a while, OmniFocus, the GTD tool from the OmniGroup (maker of fine Mac drawing, outlining and planning tools) has the capability to do business search embedded within its iPhone application.  What’s useful is that it will re-issue the search given your current location and find the nearest set of locations matching your search.  I’ve kind of cheated here and insured that the searches were for “can’t miss” business names (where did King Soopers come from?).  What’s difficult here is that things have to fit into the Getting Things Done paradigm so getting this kind of behavior to happen takes some work (locations only go with contexts, each business has to be a context, each of those contexts needs locations associated with them, etc.)  Do believe this is on a correct tangent.  It’s just that I can’t imagine many people are using it this way as it takes a GED in GTD to get er done.  More to come…

Local Search in the Getting Things Done framework.

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