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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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Well, I'm trying to get...Submitted by Wordtrip on January 31, 2007 - 12:03pm.
Well, I'm trying to get this put in place and (not sure if I'm making it more complicated than it should be) I'm adding one layer to your method. I've got the context page, and then I've got pages for each of the contexts as each of those contexts represents one "major project" (like the day job, the side job, the house, the hobbies, etc) that has many sub-projects to it (day job has multiple programming projects, side-job has several website projects, side job #2 has a bunch of projects for it, etc). I may be complicating things un-necessarily... but I'm trying to implement the GTD to the overall "Charles's Work" realm and then individually to the "Wordtrip.com/Jakender.com/DayJob" realms as well. Aside to moderator: Shouldn't this thread get moved to the Mac area? » POSTED IN:
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