43 Folders: Useful, Short-sighted or Both?
I've been subscribed to 43 Folders for a while now. I can't say it's proven as indispensible as I thought it might when I initially happened upon it, but for whatever reason it was growing on me. Then the author announces that they have a new wiki and mentions a pre-existing non-Windows policy. This is just funny in a third-grade sort of way. "I'm all for curing cancer, but only if you do it with a Mac...", is the quote that first comes to mind, but whatever [1]. I'm primarily a Windows user, but I am also Mac sometimes Mac user, sometimes a *nix user. I work in all departments.
Seeing people discuss ways to implement GTD using a Mac and using a platform-agnostic approach doesn't bother me, it's sort of amusing that having someone chime in on the wiki that there's a great app on Windows for keeping life hacked is going to put people's panties in a twist. Normally, I'd just write it off as typically childish platform zealotry, but it was surprising to see it from a site that otherwise seemed well-conceived and executed. It was sort of like if Zeldman or someone in a mac-centric place (and well-established) stopped allowing any reference to Windows on ALA or his site. Sure.
Anyway, good software is good software, run it where you can, run it where you need to. It's a shame people don't get that. I wish I could run SubEthaEdit on a PC, I wish I could run Visual Studio on a Mac, sue me.
[1] I'm not a great fact-checker, but Steve Jobs said this in 1997. Never mind, that's a lie on my part, but people aren't thorough readers and maybe at least one person will go around falsely attributing that quote.