Hi Haris
Trouble: I do the following. 1-quit and relaunch tm (just to be sure) 2-create a New from template GTD file, the default Sample is ok 3-save as untitled.gtd on the desktop 4-add some garbage text at the top of the file (before the first project). (Now Haris you will say: my fault, since nothing is expected to work with extraneous text. Anyway) 5-execute the Current Actions command; it works perfectly. 6-click on an action in the HTML window: the WRONG action is selected in the gdt window. The selected lined is off by the number of extraneous added lines, so this must be some simple problem in the ruby script. I know it's my fault, but surely you know how to fix it easily.....
Request: what about recurring events/actions? I know, you will say GTD is not for this kind of stuff, we have remind (or iCal) etc etc, but, please? Let me show you an example: a permanent project "pay taxes". I can put in it all kind of recurrent taxes; each one has a due date, which is the same every year; moreover, I would like to remember about it in advance, say, two weeks. It would be so nice to just write e.g. 2006-12-20+1Ya2W which means, due on December 20, every year, please start nagging me 2 weeks in advance. Maybe this is pushing too much the GTD bundle? (but it should certainly be a pleasure to code ;)
Thanks, Piero
On Dec 6, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Piero D'Ancona wrote:
(Now Haris you will say: my fault, since nothing is expected to work with extraneous text. Anyway)
Well, sort of, I thought it would have worked just fine with the extraneous text, but it turns out I had been away from the code for too long. All the line information is created on the fly by the objects themselves, and they are not aware of the extra lines. So one would need to add these extra "non-active" lines to the whole infrastructure, and just make them do nothing other than sit there. All this require considerable changes in the code and will take me some time. I would bet that the "Actions -> Archive Completed" command would also fail for you, since it uses the infrastructure to generate the file contents, fix the numbering of notes etc. It will likely remove all these extra lines you've added, if I am not mistaken.
I therefore would discourage you from using such lines for the time being, and I gather it will be a while until I am able to fix this. It is not a simple fix at all.
Haris