GTD using text files
A little while ago, I wrote about how I used Tinderbox to implement my the GTD method. At the time, this was inspired by Merlin Mann’s entry about hacking GTD, in which he described his ownârather neatâmethod using plain text files.
Well, now that I’m using TextMate so much for everyday work (and can keep a set of related files as a project in one window), I thought I mightâjust as an experimentâsee how easy it would be to translate my method in to plain text files. It’s not that I don’t like my method using Tinderbox, or that I think this is necessarily the best or easiest way to do things. It’s more a case of exploring other possibilities (professional curiosity is part of my job, after all), flexing my Ruby coding muscles, and seeing how far you can push the scripting abilities of TextMate. Some of you might quite legitimately wonder if I ever get anything done on my GTD list if I’m spending so much time fiddling with the list itself, but somehow I am still regularly managing to complete things off my list.
