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Kinkless VoodooPad?
tycho garen | Oct 22 2006
Hello, I'm new here. I'm also new to GTD, but from everything I've seen, I've been doing it in a modified version to one degree or another, using my head steno pad. I come from a line of list-makers, and it works. Well enough. I've always wanted to digitize the process, but all of my attempts to use basic to-do managers always failed misserably. Someone mentioned GTD Tidy Wiki, and I liked the idea, but didn't know enough about GTD or frankly the setup to make it work right. One thing lead to another and I stumbled upon 43Folders and what not, and discovered Kinkless. I'd been using OOP for 6 months or more as my primary note-taking/drafting/creation app, and while I liked it, but it required too much meta time to get it to do what I wanted, but I am/was wanted to give kGTD a try, and I've finally gotten it to a point where I work with it. And it finally is both sophisticated enough to take care of most of my concerns (so I really like how automatically files things away appropriatly). The nature of my projects changed this semester (yeah, I'm an academic/student type), and with the update of VoodooPad (which I somehow missed when it happened). The tabbed browsing/editing and multiple window features really make this the ultimate app for, just about everything that involves text. So I've reverted back to VP, and I currently use it for almost everything. My question then, is, would it be possible to create (or for that matter are there already) a set of plugins/scripts that one could use to generate the content in VP pages for context specific lists, adgenda views, next action views, and so forth, without needing to footwork the items from one page to another by hand (or by quicksilver, even qs can't argue with automatic)? If you could do a GTD implementation inside of an existing VP document, you could, then, have actions and projects a and context related lists export to your ipod, or a flash drive, and so forth. As well as having projects and actions automatically (or nearly so) link dirrectly from your GTD data. I'm a social scientist, not a programer, so about all I can do is stick my finger in my ear and say "gosh wouldn't it be cool, if..." I used to be able to think conceptually in programer, but I don't have any practical suggestions that anyone would find particularly usefull I fear... 11 Comments
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 I second that emotion!Submitted by FrogProf on October 23, 2006 - 12:00pm.
I'd love to see the same thing. I don't have Tiger on my computer at home (just at work), so I'm currently limited to VoodooPad 2.5.4. I have a document titled MasterList that I keep updated and posted on my web space, so I can at least check what I'm supposed to be doing from any connected computer. (I still don't actually do the stuff so much.) The document includes these pages: inbox (alias "index") I try to prioritize the items on each page and prepend "TODO:" to the next action. There's a script that's supposed to collect lines that begin with that and let you paste them all into an existing or new page, but for some reason the script is broken with my setup, so I manually copy the next actions to my "next action" page. Then I use the "Strike Out and Move to Bottom of Page" plugin to mark actions as completed (and keep a running list of what I've accomplished). My priority codes allow me to use the "Alphabetize" plugin to group tasks roughly by priority. I use the letters A, B, C, and D combined with the Covey quadrangle numbers. A = non-negotiable, B = important, but, C = do it when you can, and D = dream on, sista. Glenda » POSTED IN:
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