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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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OK, I think I see...Submitted by Wordtrip on February 1, 2007 - 8:27am.
OK, I think I see what you're saying... and I think you're right that I'm making it unnecessarily complicated. I'm trying to figure out how to organize the extra layers of complexity I introduced when I took my current day job 8 months ago. I think I need to re-work my contexts basically... "Office" "Home Office" that sort of thing, I think I went to much "division of labor" with my contexts instead of actual "where I do the thing" contexts (probably one of the hazards of trying to implement things before finishing the book). Having not used the script yet (just installed it) I'm grateful for your info on how it looks/works... that it lists what page tasks come from is what will make it easier to organize to... Thanks again. solidsnot;7922 wrote: I don't know if you need to have a specific page for each context as the script will group all of your actions for you per context. If I'm understanding you right, you are using each context as a project? Your context page should just be a list of contexts such as @home, or in your case, @dayjob. » POSTED IN:
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