Getting Things Done

For those unfamiliar with the GTD concept, I highly recommend reading David Allen’s book “Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”. (http://www.davidco.com). There are countless websites and blogs dedicated to the concepts and processes of GTD. I won’t bother to discuss the GTD process itself. Rather, I’m going to talk about a single page application that I’ve been using for a few years now to help me manage the GTD process. It’s a single html file that allows one to create projects, assign actions to the projects, and put these actions into contexts. The app is called ‘MonkeyGTD‘. It is written and maintained by Simon Baird (http://glosoli.blogspot.com).

The picture doesn’t do it justice. You really have to try it out. There is an online demo that will give you a flavor of what it’s like, but until you’ve set it up and used it for a few days, you won’t appreciate the power and simplicity of this app.

I’ve added the Simile TimeLine to it as a plugin based on the fine work of Dawn Ahukanna (http://project.dahukanna.net/tiddlywiki/timeline/sampletimeline220b5.html)  and, of course, the folks at MIT that wrote the base code. It’s a spiffy Ajaxy scrollable and dragable timeline. I have a script that creates an xml file with all of my entries and the time/date they were entered. I can then pull this up and find entries I’ve updated on particualr days or just see a graphical representation of my updates. I will be happy to post the code mods I’ve employed if anyone is interested.

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