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What a great idea TiddlyWiki is! If you haven’t come across it, it’s a Wiki that lives in a web page. It doesn’t need a server or a database, it simply lives on your own computer as a plain text file. It works by making use of some clever Javascript to make itself editable. Simple, yet much more effective than many costly and more complex tools. A great demonstration of the power of open source technologies. Yes, that means it’s completely free. You can download it in a few seconds and get started with it right away.
Various special purpose TiddlyWikis have been developed and I’m currently using one of them, GTD TiddlyWiki Plus. It’s designed for David Allen’s Getting Things Done productivity method, which I’m also endeavouring to get to grips with. (If I was better at getting things done, I’d have finished the book by now…)
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Do you not find the javascript transitions rather annoying?
My GTD implementation has to be online due to no longer working from home and I favour Tracks (http://tracks.tra.in).
Also, have you checked out the 43folders.com interview with David Allen. It is very useful.
Here’s my mac-biased review of various GTD solutions: http://community.livejournal.com/get_things_done/11370.html
Aagh! You’ve given me more things to do! I’ll apply my favoured method to this new list, which is to say “sod it” and go to lunch.
I was happy to have one tool which works, given my general disorganisation, but I will have a look at the other thing you suggest there. *grits teeth*
Sorry. The aim with GTD is to be able to trust your method implicitly, so you can forget about the process. This moment does come after, say, a year or so. Suddenly, the system all comes together – 50,000 feet to next action, collection buckets to weekly reviews – which makes it all worthwhile.
