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Splitting your trusted system
jason.mcbrayer | Sep 28 2006
I've just gone from being self-employed to a regular full-time job. Lots of culture shock, of course, but the thing that is really stumping me is this. When I was self-employed, I kept all my projects, contexts, and actions in one trusted system --- Emacs Org-mode. This worked really well, and I was able to keep a full view of all the commitments in my life in front of me. My problem is that now I feel the need to split my system between work and everything else (home, hobbies, volunteering), because my computer at work, and everything on it, is the property of my employer and subject to monitoring, seizure, backups, folding, spindling, mutilating, etc. I have set up a work GTD system using Org mode as well (previously Monkey-GTD, but it didn't meet all of my needs). This system works well for tracking my work needs, but because I am at home so little (relatively speaking) now, I find that I do not check and update my home GTD system frequently enough to keep on top of my non-work commitments. Obviously, one needs only one trusted system, not a collection of them, which is my problem. I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem. How do other people deal with having to split their trusted system? 14 Comments
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Linda, that sounds like good...Submitted by jason.mcbrayer on September 29, 2006 - 5:59pm.
Linda, that sounds like good advice, but I'm afraid that my non-work projects are too big for me to reasonably keep track of without some kind of computer assistance. At least, I'm fairly sure I couldn't do them with a hPDA, nor with my Moleskine as I currently use it. Maybe if I went with a full-sized DIY planner, but that might be too much of a shock for me, and too bulky to carry around. Of course, the fact that I don't have time to do any of these non-work projects anymore suggests that maybe a pared-down system might be good enough now.. Hmm...I'll take it under advisement. Anyone else have any suggestions? » POSTED IN:
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