[TxMt] Re: a request on GTDalt bundle: flexible input

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

On 9 Nov 2006, at 14:52, Mark Smith wrote:

>
> On 9 Nov 2006, at 10:31, Piero D'Ancona wrote:
>
>> Mark Eli Kalderon <eli at ...> writes:
>>>
>>> On 8 Nov 2006, at 23:44, Piero D'Ancona wrote:
>>>>  Wouldn't it be nicer if anything which is
>>>> not contained in a project...end pair would simply be
>>>> ignored, so that the file could be used in a more
>>>> flexible way?
>>
>>> Use a URL in a note. Create a note with control-{. Create a link  
>>> with
>>> control-N, give a brief description, replace the 'http://' with
>>> 'file://' followed by the file path of a text file containing your
>>> notes. When in the note, control-L will open the links in the note.
>>> Your text file with your notes will open. Best, Mark
>>
>> Thank you, but this is not a solution for me. Of course I can keep
>> projects and notes in different files, my request was exactly
>> about the possibility to have them in the same text file.
>> My project files are at the same time logs of the work already
>> done in a certain area, a collection of background information,
>> and the place where I think about new actions.
>
> Put them in a separate file in the same project ?
>
> Specifically, put *all* of the .gtd files in a single folder  
> reference inside a .tmproj container e.g.:
>
> 	_INBOX.txt
> 	GTDAlt/
> 		myFirstGTDfile.gtd
> 		mySecondGTDfile.gtd
> 		etc.gtd
> 	Code/
> 		whatever.css
> 		foo.rb
> 		index.php
> 		etc.html
> 	Drafts/
> 		myDraft.markdown
> 	Meetings/
> 		bigProject2006-11-09.markdown
> 	etc/
>
> As you can see, this has a particular advantage that might persuade  
> you to give up the notion of having everhing pertaining to a  
> project in a single file: you can use different syntaxes for  
> different aspects of the project: .gtd for your actions, .markdown  
> for meeting notes ?, the appropriate syntax for each of your code  
> files etc and the GTDAlt bundle still works from anywhere within  
> the .tmproj container.
>
>> You propose to create a net of inter-related files which I feel  
>> would be more difficult to maintain for me
>
> no more difficult to maintain than any other single folder of files.
>
>
>> (and would make more difficult to use a different text editor if I  
>> need to)
>
> well, that's true, but GTDalt only works in TextMate.
>
> mark.

Piero, I don't know how to do what you want or even if it is  
possible, but let me second Mark's suggestion here---it really is  
more efficient to have complex info broken up into different files.  
TextMate's projects make it easy to keep on top of them. I do  
something similar. Within the context of a project I found it  
actually *easier* to maintain. Though of course there are always  
costs to changing workflow but these are minor and temporary. Sorry  
not to be of more help. All the best, Mark