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On Jun 11, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Mike Mellor wrote:
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On Jun 11, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Ron Rosson wrote:
I am on the hunt for the perfect GTD system (who isn't ;-)). I have been looking thru the GTD bundle and I think I have a few questions. My interpretation of the GTD bundle is that each file is a project in the GTD sense. and lines in these files begin with the appropriate word to make up the action to be performed. One of the pieces or the logic that I am not seeing is location. Once you get into GTD it is just not work.. It becomes your world. ;-)
I kind of use context and location together loosely. For example, EMAIL has to be done on a computer, etc. Based on another comment, I plan to add "WORK EMAIL" and "HOME EMAIL" and so on, for folks lucky enough to be able to use TextMate at work!
I do not know how I ever survived before I found TM. I used it to cut my teeth on XML, my shell script writing, and now I actively added using it for posting to my blog. The more I am doing in TM the better. I was talking to a non-Mac person about TM and he stated it sound a lot like Emacs. Without making war in editor land I said sorta but not sorta. I don't have to get carpal tunnel to use TM. ;-). I currently have a .Mac account and I placed by GTD project up there. when done updating I HUP the sync agent to make sure the iDisk is in sync (Sharing information between mini at home and my roaming powerbook).
P.S. A couple of feature requests:
- Possible editor to edit the labels actions.
- integration with either the unix cal program or iCal
- re-occurring tasks
I have more or less deliberately avoided using any calendar notation in GTD - in keeping with "the book," any tasks that is time dependent goes on my calendar, my todo items are not (as) time sensitive. Perhaps we can look at a macro, somehow tied into FMP, that creates an appointment in iCal but not on a list? I use Google calendars for input to iCal, so I'm not sure how it would work.
Thanks for the feedback!
I look forward to your changes and additions to the Bundle. Like the author of FMP stated. "I love the lazyweb". I be interested to if anyone else other than what I have seen in this months thread if they have made any feedback or come up with ideas. I think the integration of FMP will be a great enhancement.
This week has been kinda weird for me. I have found my self utilizing the append to text file feature of quicksilver to generate a grocery list of items I need when I go shopping. in GTD I had an item to go shopping the weekend. What would have been really cool would have been able to link the grocery list to the action item of going shopping. ( I can see it but have just cracked the cover of the Programming Ruby book )
Keep up the good work.
- -Ron
- -- Ron Rosson oneinsanedotnet@gmail.com http://www.oneinsane.net