For the past few months a new partner at Ghost Park Software and I have been working hard on a new GTD app for the iPhone called Actions. We think it’s great and it’s now ready for beta testing. Here are some of the highlights:

• Really fast startup and navigation, even with a very large set of actions.
• Very nice support for the GTD method
• Simple and easy to use. You don’t need to be a GTD expert to use it.

Because of limitations set by Apple we can only invite a limited number of beta testers. If you are interested in participating send an email to . Please include your 40 character Iphone identifier (UDID). You can find it in iTunes when your iPhone is connected if you click on the Serial Number label in the Summary screen.

Each tester that finds a serious bug will receive a free copy of Actions when it is released.

More information about Actions to follow soon…

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.

A minor update this time.

Improvements

• Due actions are shown in red color.

Bug fixes

• The color of projects were not updated directly when actions were marked as done

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.

Many improvements including a redesign of the GUI and improved keyboard navigation.

Improvements

• Expiration date for beta moved to 20th of January.
• Actions are always created and edited directly in the list of actions instead of in separate windows
• Notes and due dates can be directly edited in two new controls in the main window
• Pressing return or space when an action is selected will edit it
• Pressing return while editing names or due dates will finish the editing
• It is now possible to navigate in the action, project and context lists using the up and down arrows.
• Pressing tab while editing an action will move to the next editable field
• Contexts and projects can now be created through the meny and keyboard shortcuts
• The filters “only due actions” and “only actions not done” now remembers their state between launches.
• The autosync is now also performed when the application enters the foreground
• Nicer looking add buttons
• The due column now shows “Dec 25″ instead of “12/25″

Bug fixes

• A due action would sometimes not be shown when “only due actions” were selected.
• The column widths would appear incorrect after restart if the split view bar had been moved
• The filters “only due actions” and “only actions not done” now always have the same state in the project, context and action views
• Improved navigation using tab between controls
• Actions that are done are now shown in gray
• Projects that have no incomplete actions are now shown in gray

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.

I have released a new beta with the expiry date moved to 10th of January. Also the application size has been reduced from 9.2 Mb to 3.9 Mb.

I’m near a 1.0 release, but I don’t want to make a 1.0 release just before Christmas, since I will be away and might not be able to give immediate support in case something goes wrong. I think all major bugs have been resolved now, but there are some minor issues left, and I few improvements I would like to make.

I have actually been experimenting with a redesign of parts of the user interface which I hope will be a big improvement. So stay tuned for the next few updates.

Version 1.0b10 of Ghost Action has been released. It contains an important bugfix:

• Creating a new action in the context view would cause an extra action row appear in the action list. (This bug was introduced in 1.0b8).

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.

Yet another version of Ghost Action has been released with a number of bug fixes:

• The columns can no longer be selected.
• Resizing the window wouldn’t correctly resize the width of the project column in the project window.
• A crash could occur during synchronization if a to do in iCal was moved between calendars AND changes were made in the name of the to do AND the calendar originally containing the to do were deleted.

A new version of Ghost Action has been released. It contains a number of bug fixes and some improvements, most notable automatic software update checking for new versions of Ghost Actions

Improvements:

• A notification is shown if new versions are available for download.
• The description field in the action window now wraps the text, allows spell checking and adds a scroll bar when needed.

Bug fixes:

• The warning shown when deleting contexts was missing the @-sign from the iCal calendar name.
• Pressing the add button while editing a project, context or action name no longer looses the edit.
• Strange context names such as <Context: 0×4c55c0>… could sometimes be set as the default for new actions.
• To dos were imported even if they didn’t belong to a calendar starting with the @-sign if the action name contained a project name.

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.

Version 1.0b7 fixes a major bug that slipped through in the last release.

Bug fixes:

• From the second time and on that Ghost Action was run, the action name column in the action view would be replaced by an extra action done column.

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.

The biggest improvement in 1.0b6 is the new function auto-sync. Whenever you start, stop or put Ghost Action in the background, it will sync to iCal. You can turn on auto-sync in the preferences dialog. For the full list of changes see below:

Changes:

• The expiration date has been moved forward to Dec 20.
• A new preference option: automatically sync to iCal when starting, stopping and when in background
• A new license menu item has been added
• The column widths are retained between launches
• The window size and position are retained between launches

You can download the new version at http://ghostparksoftware.com. 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 method.