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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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 Jason, Steve, Linda... I have the...Submitted by jason.mcbrayer on September 30, 2006 - 3:04pm.
jasonechols;6156 wrote:
Jason, Steve, Linda... Keeping them logically separated isn't the problem for me. When I was working at home, I didn't have any trouble with that (well, no more than one would expect). The problem is keeping them physically separate. My work computer cannot be used for non-work purposes, and that includes non-work websites (actually, the firewall/filter is not terribly strict, but web use is subject to periodic auditing). And yes, I could almost certainly justify my use of an external site for project management, I just don't want to have to. It's a new job and I'm just getting a feel for the culture. jasonechols;6156 wrote:
This is why I use Tracks. If you have server space to run it off of, you are good to go. It is web based, so the home and work computer issue is not a factor. I can keep my context, project, next action structure in one place. I could do this. I could also just keep both my home and work projects in Org-mode on my computer at home and ssh in to it, which would probably be even easier and more effective. The problem is that I'm not entirely comfortable doing so given my workplace's computer use policy. Using a system for both of them on my own computer wouldn't be as bad as using a system for both of them on the work computer, but is still something I'd be a little leery of. I'm not saying it benefits me to have a split system; it actually pretty clearly isn't working for me right now. I'm thinking more about Linda's suggestion, and I'm kind of leaning now towards keeping a cache of my home system in an hPDA. The home trusted system is still in my home computer, but I have some access to it way from the glowing screen. I can probably fit my projects and next actions lists; it will just be separate from even the most basic reference material... » POSTED IN:
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