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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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 Would it work to keep...Submitted by jason.mcbrayer on October 1, 2006 - 4:32pm.
Linda;6168 wrote:
Would it work to keep your home-system on the computer, but just to print a list of projects weekly, and a list of next-actions daily (or whatever frequencies match your situation?) Each night you could re-synch the lists, and it gives you access to the memory-joggers (though not all the project details) fairly easily. Probably. For now, I've decided to transcribe to index cards, and update projects weekly and next actions as-and-when their cards get full, crowded with done tasks, or ratty-looking. I need to write a better list-printing function to go with Org-mode before I can really just print my lists. In broad outline, though, this is looking like the way to go. Evening is family time, which means generally little-to-no computer access, and my before-work time is pretty limited, period. I'm coming around to the view that this more-or-less requires a paper-based solution, though it's going to have to be one that is compatible with my computer-based system because of the ability to link in references. Thanks for the suggestion. » POSTED IN:
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