Midnight InboxTM

get ahead of all the inputs in your life

Lots of project management or task tracking applications help you organize the stuff you have to do &mdash Midnight Inbox is designed to help you choose the right thing to do, in context and in relation to everything else.

Do the right thing.

Midnight Inbox helps you work smarter and with less stress, automating your inputs and organizing your tasks, files, and information so that you can always be in control. Collect emails, files, calendar and to-do items and notes automatically. Process all of your collected items into to-do items you can actually do when and where you are able. Organize those to-do items into projects you can track easily. Review your lists, projects, and collections to make sure nothing slips through the cracks. Do everything on your lists with a Zen-like focus.

What’s GTD?

Development of Midnight Inbox has been based around the ideas and practices of enthusiasts of GTD &mdash the philosophies of David Allen as presented in his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity which has become a phenomenon across the internet and the world for it's elegance and practicallity.

Being stress-free and productive is the main principle of GTD, and often overlooked in the search for tools to be organized. David Allen poses that in order to be stress-free you must get things off your mind and into a system you can trust to track what you need to be doing, and in fact, what it is you want to be doing.

Ubiquitous capture.

We live in an age of infoglut. Every day our decisions, insights and ideas get lost because they're simply not captured into a trusted system before the next distracting email, request from your boss, Web site or SMS comes in. The trick to dealing with this deluge is to capture everything that comes at you into a single clear and easy system where you can quickly sift out the unneccessary for the inspired. Midnight Inbox is that system.

Automatic Collecting

Midnight Inbox helps you quickly collect notes and information all over your digital life to keep your mind clear and focused. Using Spotlight technology Inbox constantly gathers items from all over your Mac that you're actively working with.

Decisions: upfront.

There's a "4D" theory of staying stress free: Do It, Delegate It, Delete It or Defer It. Inbox's Processing takes you through everything you've captured one by one and asks you to decide exactly what the next action is. Better yet, Inbox gives you tools to dispense with things right then and there: answer (or delete) that email from right within Inbox; send that image file to a colleague; delete a task you no longer have to do; or set a due date for later this month.

Fast Processing

To help you quickly sort through all the information you work with everyday, Midnight Inbox's processing features assist you in making decisions and acting on them. Follwing a simple guided workflow, Inbox provides you with efficient contextual commands while tracking your choices.

Say goodbye to ugly.

9 out of 10 scienticians say that bad interface design and poor typography make kittens sad and make life a chore. Midnight Inbox saves you from dullness and tedium with gorgeous typography and elegant user interface design. And function follows in step with its form giving you absolute control over your actions and lists, with quick editing and fast revisioning.

Easy Organizing

Often when stress is low you'll find yourself planning . Midnight Inbox's organize features allow you to freely create, sort, and manage all your lists; quickly moving around actions and notes while attaching files and delegating tasks to others via email.

Don’t let anything fall through the cracks;
in fact, abolish the cracks.

Never be surprised by a task or bit of information you've forgotten about again! Inbox makes sure you know what you need to know, when you need to know it. Inbox's Reviewing steps you through your lists on a schedule you set as deeply as you want. And Midnight Inbox guides you into tightening up your system, so nothing falls through the cracks (well, unless you want it to).

Effective Reviewing

The Yin to the processing Yang, a review is another simple workflow to help keep your actions current and keep you from missing anything important &mdash so your brain is freed from having to remember any nagging things. Midnight Inbox guides you through the essential work of gathering, reviewing, updating, and completeing everything you can.

¡Sí, se puede!

See what you can do, right now, and nothing else to get in the way. It's productivity nirvana: let Inbox help you pick your most important thing to do right where you are. Inbox's original Yak Timer can gently remind you to stop surfing the Web and get back to that spreadsheet; filtered action lists let you show only tasks you can do while you're at your desk; many users just show their very next action and nothing else. How you work is up to you; Inbox follows your lead.

Focused Doing

Using a wide range of customizable critia and powerful filters Midnight Inbox helps you see what needs to be done, and see what can be done now. It automatically prioritizes your actions according to what's next and what's due, while considering where you are and what you feel capable of doing.

High tech.

Because Midnight Inbox is built exclusively for Mac OS X using Cocoa, it plays nice with all of the standard Mac applications. In fact, Midnight Inbox is a sort of meta-application, allowing you to organize your data from iCal, Mail, and Safari, yet work with it in those environments you're already used to. Inbox is a Universal application for both the PowerPC and Intel Macs, incorporating Spotlight, Core Data, and other key Apple technologies.

Start to Finish GTD

Supporting the entire framework of GTD, Midnight Inbox provides additional symbiotic tools such as reference topic filing of information, archiving of completed actions and lists. Realms and contexts to catagorize your activities into sensible groups. And direct interaction with iCal, Mail, and Safari to keep you productive.