[TxMt] GTD Upgraded

[Mike Mellor]

Haris -

I am reading Learning to
Program<http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_ltp/index.html>by
Chris Pine.  Not very deep, but well written and a good intro to Ruby.

Mike

On 6/9/06, Mike Mellor <alaskamike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dan -
>
> Thanks for the input.  Here are some quick thoughts.
>
> First, on contexts, I thought that "TODO", "CALL", etc. were contexts (in
> my mind, I use TODO for a physical action or something that doesn't fall
> into another context).  Maybe I'm missing something here.  And maybe I need
> to explain how I use the GTD bundle betetr.  I created a GTD project in
> TextMate where I add a *.gtd file for each project, e.g. "stuff to do
> around the house," "paint the living room," etc.  Then I add tasks, using
> the TODO, CALL, etc. contexts.  Finally, to use what I've done in context, I
> do a "view GTD tasks" (control-shift-T) to group my tasks  by context.
>
> I wrote to Nick Fagerlund (FMP creator) and he has given me permission to
> include FMP in the GTD bundle.  I think that FMP is a great tool, but it
> works the opposite of how I think.  I like to "think in projects, execute in
> context" where FMP is designed to take a text file with more-or-less random
> categories and split it out into separate lists.
>
> My plan is to put the functionality into the bundle, and see where it
> goes.  Again, thanks for the feedback!
>
> Mike
>
> On 6/9/06, Daniel Käsmayr <daniel at kaesmayr.net> wrote:
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> > Mike,
>
> I like the fact that you are now working from your own scope
> "text.plain.gtd", so the tab triggers no longer kill my other stuff ;)
>
> The major point I am not happy with your version is that it does not
> use contexts; what we have now is a rather pimped TODO-List
> generator. Very useful, but not "gtd" yet… don't get me wrong, I am
> bay far no gtd apostle nor do i try to kill any good idea.
>
> As I have mentioned before, I am trying to see if "My fiendish master
> plan" is useful. And what this one does is it takes an input text
> file, reads each line to see if it starts with ^context and then
> moves that todo item to a separate text file for that context.
>
> So what I would like to see in that gtd.bundle is:
>
> a) a means to work with contexts
> b) some way to keep project files, but also extract next actions from
> those projects
> c) an easy way for getting stuff IN the system
> d) maybe some assistance for the weekly review
>
> Since I am not really up-to-date with my programming skills (I would
> like to pick up ruby and ruby on rails… any good pointers for
> reading?) I have no solution yet, but I am willing to help out.
>
> It is, in a way, just a question to see whether I will try to roll my
> own or if you are interested in moving the bundle from todo-lists to
> a nextaction-and-project-based approach?
>
> Dan
>
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