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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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 What you want is this...Submitted by solidsnot on January 24, 2007 - 11:55am.
What you want is this thread on flyingmeat's boards. This script is actually pretty dang good for GTD. This is how I've implemented it: I created a page in VD called "Projects" and then proceeded to create pages within "Projects" for all of my projects. Inside each actual project page I would then list each action preceded by the context like such: @home Kick cat. and so on. After creating all of my nifty projects I then went back to my Index page and created a page called "Contexts" which contained all of my contexts as such: @mac After all of this was done, I copied the script mentioned in the thread above into my favorite text editor and saved it in ~/Library/Application Support/Voodoo Pad/Script PlugIns with a .lua extension. Once this is done, fire VDP back up and you should notice a new entry in your Plugin menu called "Compile Actions." It should even have a nifty command-shift-A keyboard shortcut. When you use this script it looks through your entire pad for lines beginning with whatever contexts you listed in your "Contexts" page. It then puts them in neat order on a page called "Actions." You can then print this off or whatever. What's handy about this script is that it ignores lines that have been struck through. So, this means that as you finish your Next Actions you can use the other nifty script in VDP that lines-through and moves the text to the bottom of the page so you can keep track of what you've actually accomplished. If you're still having trouble let me know where I've been unclear and we'll get you going. » POSTED IN:
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