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Whitepaper: GTD LoFi/HiFi by Emory
R. Emory Lundberg | Apr 2 2006
Enough people have been picking my brain lately about my workflow that I decided to document it. Heavily. Published versions of this draft as I'm writing it will be available online and I will be commiting changes as I work on it. I'll probably also post something on my weblog or in this thread when revisions are made. Since email has been a hot topic lately, I started with that section, and I'll be documenting various other topics as I go. Permalink for this doc will be: http://kvet.ch/pages/gtd-whitepaper-emory 36 Comments
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 Hey Emory, I really enjoyed the...Submitted by emory on April 3, 2006 - 5:07pm.
stevenf wrote:
Hey Emory, Okay. I have two primary workspaces. For purposes of confidentiality and such the DEVONthink database at work never leaves work. It cannot and will not. It lives on an encrypted disk slice on the office workstation. So that is a problem I never even had to solve, but if I was going to solve it, I'd put the database on my iPod. As for what I do at home, my jumbo database (EMORYthink ;)) and my religious studies database (GodMining) both live in my home directory and are synced using Apple's Portable Home Directories feature in OS X Server 10.4. It works brilliantly. My home directory on my PowerBook is encrypted using FileVault, so I'm not too concerned about someone breaking AES encryption anytime soon and stealing my database. It exists unencrypted on the fileserver. I could turn on FileVault for my account on the fileserver as well I suppose, or merely create an encrypted sparseimage for my database at home like I do at work. I have never attempted to check my DEVONthink databases into SVN, but that may work as well: if you're copying files into DEVONthink it puts them in a Files/ subdirectory inside your database. Those new files can be checked in as anything else, and the raw database files appear to be just binary data: zsh 326 % file DEVONthink-3.database So you could be doing this with Unison (the file sync Unison not the Usenet unison), psync, rsync, AFP file copies, or whatever. But you could also do it with SVN. SVN may chew more disk space than its worth without pruning. Some of the property options in SVN may allow you to only store the latest file in the repostitory but I'm not sure. I'm getting off easy having OS X Server as the household fileserver. Using Portable Home Directories is fantastic. But you can probably roll your own solution using tools available to you. Before Tiger Server I was using Unison to do my ~homedirectory syncs across the network. It was almost too easy, but Portable Home Directories certainly is. So there is no reason you couldn't get a similar setup using Unison. » POSTED IN:
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