Printing support in version 1.0b17
The eagerly awaited feature printing has finally been implemented in Ghost Action 1.0b17. Currently all incomplete actions are printed grouped per context.
Below are two sample printouts:
The printouts can be printed with different page formats and different font size. I would expect the printouts will be most useful when printing to smaller formats such as index cards or with several print pages per sheet.
The printout to the right have been printed with a different page format (using Page Setup…) and with fewer lines per page. The lines per page setting can be changed in the print dialog under the special “Ghost Action” setting.
This should be seen as the first version of the printing support. Please experiment, give me your feedback, and tell me what I can improve.
Ghost Action is a new to do list manager for Mac that helps you keep track of what you need to do using the Getting Things Done (GTD) method.
February 2nd, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I had a look at various GTD Tools for the Mac, and yours delivers the iCal / PDA integration I needed. Great work, thanks.
To print things on paper helps for my work, since I use paper during discussions with my boss or my wive. That way I can make notes to the tasks and enter the stuff afterwards into Ghost Action.
The printed list as it is currently presented is of reduced value to me. In the Gui it is always easily recognisable, which task belongs to which project. On the paper I see just the task name which is often not very helpful without knowing to which project it belongs. Example: ’specify functionality’ is a task I have in three projects, now which is which?
Could you consider to add the project name to the left of the task? Or have the project name on the first line and the task name slightly indented on the second line, but keep the sorting order based on the tasks?
Kind regards,
Urs Eppenberger, SWITCH
February 3rd, 2007 at 11:57 am
Urs, thanks for your feedback. I will include information about the project in a future release.
February 7th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Great GTD app. I would blog about it, but I am not very GTD centric. I have already emailed Jacob about the project/next action comment like Urs made, but wanted to echo that here. Definately like the printing to cards but need the project reference to make it useful. Thanks!
February 8th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I’d also like to suggest a print option where I can print more than 1 context on a page (with a suitable separator between contexts), to make the printouts mre compact.
Another idea would be to limit the printout to a select period of days.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Hey, i just checked out the app. Looks great on the first look.
But the print layout does look to childish, as the font is more a comic-style font. could you imagine to have a better designed print layout that makes fun to print out?
Check this layouts for hints:
http://davidseah.com/archives/2005/11/12/the-printable-ceo-series/
Thanks!
Micha
February 13th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
it would be great to have this print as a one-sheet, separated by context. less to carry
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Hi, I’m using the latest Beta and it keeps crashing when I try to print.
March 4th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Hi Andreas,
I have mailed you about this problem, but I’m not getting any reply. Can you contact me by mail (see the support page) and I will try to resolve your problem.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Did you ever see an old mac product InControl by Intuit (spelling??) Really great. To have color highlight to the priority would be nice. But without printing it is kid of a toy. WHY CAN’T I PRINT WHAT I AM SEEING ON THE SCREEN???? SOON
April 9th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
I’d like to be able to print just the view I’m looking at - sorted the way I’m looking at it.
Projects and time tend to correlate in my life. Having to print everything to get the one context I need now is a bit of a waste of paper and trees. Otherwise - I love this program.
Many thanks,
Brian