Abstract: A primary disconnect of GTD systems is that they are more interested in the data than the actions. As an analogy, let’s pretend you are are tasked with starting a new rocking chair manufacturing company. Would you rather have A pre-designed assembly line that had all the jigs and supplies for the steps [...]
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In the car this morning, in response to one of Micah’s silly questions: “what will we do with this cell phone car charger now that you have a new phone?” Amy flippantly answered, “we’ll hang it on the Christmas tree.” “Hey, what if we really did that?” she asked. We brainstormed for a bit, all [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about a wiki-like system to facilitate the habits of GTD. It’s a wiki in the sense that everything is an item, and there is no explicit hierarchy. There are no folders, and no binary parent/child relationships between projects and tasks. But its not enough to depend on a simple wiki, [...]
I started my first Grails project today, using the basic project in NetBeans. I was going to start with vanilla Groovy, but learning thick client Java seemed like more work than going whole hog into Grails. I’ve said for some time, I’m scared to try Groovy/Grails, since I’ll probably get angry at all the time [...]
Given the background about my use of GTD, now I get to into some new opinions. I’ve been thinking a lot about personal productivity after getting a blast from the past and the emails it spawned about the persistent poor state of high volume email management. In object oriented programming terms, GTD is an interface, [...]
My previous post covers any background that can fill in the gaps if you’re unfamiliar with Getting Things Done. This post establishes the baseline of where I’m at for GTD tech. My current system is MonkeyGTD on a thumb drive. MonkeyGTD is a micro-wiki, running standalone in a browser without any infrastructure than the browser [...]
I am a big fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) system for personal productivity. I anticipate several of my upcoming posts to be on this subject, so I’m including this post as boilerplate. I’m not going to make this another blog about GTD. Nor am I going to make this post a reference post. Here [...]
I’ve named this blog “Pragmatic Geek.” At my core, I’m a pragmatist, and these are thoughts about how that overlaps with being a geek. (I’m also a realistic enough to realize that my thoughts aren’t that unique, and this could likely be “another blog.”) Pragmatic: concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, [...]