Interesting synchronicity. Last night, I followed the mention in
another thread of Ta-da, the online todo list program, and spent a bit
of time also looking at its big brother, Basecamp. It looks
surprisingly full-featured and, if you set it up to allow "employees"
of external "companies" to have access (they are very much wedded to
the project paradigm), you can open up your project to other external
participants. It is sort of complex to wrap my head around so, other
than setting up the base (ouch) account, I haven't gone far with it.

I'm just starting in on learning the GTD system (reading chapter 2). At
this point, I have actually read more of the online blogs and articles
referred to from 43F and members of this group than the book itself. I
have 43 manilla folders sitting on a shelf by my desk at work in
near-readiness (still need to clear out space in my file cabinet) but,
before I get too far with that aspect, I think I need to finish the
book and start strategizing how it will work for me.

Manilla folders, ..., I don't know. If I understand David Allen's
message from the little I've internalized so far, the whole point is
NOT to segregate the "work" life from everything else.  I certainly
can't see carting around a milk crate of folders around with me. That's
the fuzzy part for me. If I have work to do in multiple locations, but
the tickler is at work, what do I do?

I think it all boils down to what Merlin and others have been saying
that readers of 43F have a much different style of working than the
more traditional business audience that Allen was writing for. We work
wherever there's a fast internet connection and that often means
external to the traditional office space, be it at home or in
Starbucks.

I'm casting about for something that will follow me around where ever I
am. My inclination is to do as much as possible on my Palm T3, since
that is almost never farther away from me than the next room. I've
looked at a couple of articles, including the one on Allen's website,
about using the standard Palm programs. But the tickler file part is
still murky.

Talk on another thread got me interested in trying out Dokuwiki (that's
the one that saves all your work as plain text files rather than as
mysql, or whatever-sql, database rows) as a GTD environment. The
original thread posed the question about using a wiki as an outliner.
But, I don't think any wiki has that particular strength and I
certainly haven't seen one that touts OPML in its feature set.

Never-the-less, Docuwiki is a really nice, light-weight wiki
environment and it has a lot appeal for me. It is SO easy, using
Transit (ftp program), to sync the wiki data files on my laptop with
the equivalent data files on my website. Verra cool!

The missing bit, of course, is having the wiki files available on my
Palm as well. I currently do all of my synching of my Palm at work on
my XP box. I've been happy with that arrangement since, hey, that's
where I do most of my work. I haven't bothered to install a Mac version
of Palm desktop on my laptop and, on the rare occasions at home when I
need to type a file rather than using the stylus, I do it in BBedit and
sent it over to Memo using Bluetooth.

MacNoteTaker[1] seems like a nice way to get my dokuwiki files over to
my Palm without too much dicking around. Consequently, I am now
thinking of installing Palm desktop on my Mac just to get syncing
capability for MacNoteTaker. Does anybody know of a way around that or
is Palm Desktop and HotSync the best option? If so, I plan to turn off
the other conduits since I will continue to use the XP box at work for
my desktop.

However, the final barrier is that I would also like to find a wiki
program for the Palm capable of using the Dokuwiki text files. I could
use MacNoteTaker on the Palm to read the files, but having a real or
simulated wiki on the Palm would be GREAT.

The closest thing I've found is PalmWiki[2], and that has several
problems.

MacNoteTaker designates a folder on your Mac as the "source" data and
uploads/synchs it with your Palm, keeping all the sub-folders intact.
So far, so good, since Dokuwiki allows nested folders in its data
folder (where the text version of the pages reside) and that will
preserve the nested folder structure of the Dokuwiki data files.

But, without having actually tried MacNoteTaker yet, I have concluded
that MacNoteTaker files do not live where Memo (on the Palm) can access
them, since the hierarchical folder structure of the files is not
something that Memo can handle. PalmWiki, of course, appears to use the
Memo files to store its data. Am I correct in my assumption that they
are incompatible?

The second problem is that I don't think that PalmWiki will even run on
my T3. It seems to be based on a Hack (which is essentially OS 4
technology). It MAY run under OS 5 (although seems to be eratic and
buggy from what I've read) and doesn't seem to run at all on Palm T3's
and the like. Does anyone know differently?

So, in case I haven't laid it out clearly enough already, has anyone
found a wiki (Dokuwiki or other) that can be somehow synced (sunk?)
with a Palm such that the wiki data can be read on the Palm using a
wiki program? Is there actually a wiki for the Palm? And if so, can it
share data with another wiki running under LAMP or MacAMP?

In the meantime, I think I'll explore the path of using MacNoteTaker
with my Dokuwiki files and see if that works to expectation. My T3
isn't networked in any real sense, other than through Bluetooth and a
trial version of Salling Clicker to run iTunes from across the room.
The factory installed WebPro browser has gone unused for want of a WiFi
SD card for the T3 for over a year -- what the hell is Palm doing? --
and I don't have a Bluetooth celphone.

So, using MacNoteTaker on the Palm rather than a wiki is probably not
the end of the world to what I ultimately want to do.

[1] http://mac-huwis.lut.ac.uk/~wis/programs/NoteTaker/NoteTaker.html
[2] http://pitecan.com/PalmWiki/index_e.html