Comments on: GTD with plain text files http://leafraker.com/2007/10/24/gtd-with-plain-text-files/ Personal Productivity and Mac OS X Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:35:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: laddiebuck http://leafraker.com/2007/10/24/gtd-with-plain-text-files/comment-page-1/#comment-306 laddiebuck Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:57:09 +0000 http://leafraker.com/2007/10/24/gtd-with-plain-text-files/#comment-306 My method is very similar. I use vim, which also supports folding, so my text file, projects and tasks and calendar and all, runs into some 5000 lines. But when I fold everything up, I only see 10 lines, of which 2 are mottos I want to see at the top Mottos, line 1 (sorry, that's private) Mottos, line 2 (sorry, that's private) ---- +- Daily (15 lines) +- Now (604 lines) +- Review (36 lines) +- Tasks (306 lines) +- Projects (3204 lines) +- In (376 lines) +- Goals (51 lines) +- Optional (364 lines) +- Done (1155 lines) +- Scratch (0 lines) +- Formatting (5 lines) "Now" is just my calendar. It's much the same as yours, but I don't have a Today list, I just move the old day to "Done" at the end of each day, transferring any tasks that weren't done. The idea is to do no task management at all, just have a weekly review be a task, when I also create a calendar entry for next Sunday's weekly review. Then I just chug along and if the calendar tells me to do something, I do it. I don't really do "task management", I just give orders to my future self. Glad to see there are still calendar-based (and plain text to boot!) people around! Good luck, mate. My method is very similar. I use vim, which also supports folding, so my text file, projects and tasks and calendar and all, runs into some 5000 lines. But when I fold everything up, I only see 10 lines, of which 2 are mottos I want to see at the top

Mottos, line 1 (sorry, that’s private)
Mottos, line 2 (sorry, that’s private)
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+- Daily (15 lines)
+- Now (604 lines)
+- Review (36 lines)
+- Tasks (306 lines)

+- Projects (3204 lines)
+- In (376 lines)
+- Goals (51 lines)

+- Optional (364 lines)
+- Done (1155 lines)
+- Scratch (0 lines)
+- Formatting (5 lines)

“Now” is just my calendar. It’s much the same as yours, but I don’t have a Today list, I just move the old day to “Done” at the end of each day, transferring any tasks that weren’t done. The idea is to do no task management at all, just have a weekly review be a task, when I also create a calendar entry for next Sunday’s weekly review. Then I just chug along and if the calendar tells me to do something, I do it. I don’t really do “task management”, I just give orders to my future self.

Glad to see there are still calendar-based (and plain text to boot!) people around! Good luck, mate.

]]> By: kingrajul http://leafraker.com/2007/10/24/gtd-with-plain-text-files/comment-page-1/#comment-265 kingrajul Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:01:25 +0000 http://leafraker.com/2007/10/24/gtd-with-plain-text-files/#comment-265 Thanks for sharing. I use e text editor for GTD. I really liked the concept of using markdown to keep it more readable. Thanks for sharing. I use e text editor for GTD. I really liked the concept of using markdown to keep it more readable.

]]> By: Davide "Design" Muzzarelli http://leafraker.com/2007/10/24/gtd-with-plain-text-files/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Davide "Design" Muzzarelli Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:57:40 +0000 http://leafraker.com/2007/10/24/gtd-with-plain-text-files/#comment-234 Thank you, Markdown is really useful for a GTD tickler file. Now I use it in Kate but I prefer the MediaWiki markup for my to-do lists. Thank you, Markdown is really useful for a GTD tickler file. Now I use it in Kate but I prefer the MediaWiki markup for my to-do lists.

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