Bashing GTD

[dave.gi...@gmail.com]

Before any one gets their anti troll spray out ... As a Linux user
trying to fit GTD into my crazy life I've been hacking together some
Bash scripts to find @work context next actions. I do a good deal of
my work with my laptop and I keep all my notes in text files when I
realize the need for a next action I add it to the text file. The
script checks my work related sub directories for any next actions in
my notes.txt files.
A cron job e-mails the output to me every night.

If anyone is interested I can post the script.

Dave

[Merlin Mann]

Dave, that sounds super-helpful (I love me some bash and want to learn
more.)

Email me if you'd consider writing a few paragraphs around your scripts
and letting me post it on The Mothership.

[thi...@gmail.com]

Interested! Very interested!

[Amit]

yea, I'd be interested. I'm starting the switch from winblows to Linux.

[breit...@gmail.com]

I'm also very interested in this.

[Jenna Pfister]

Also interested.

[Evan Edwards]

On Monday 03 October 2005 07:54 pm, dave.gi...@gmail.com wrote:
>  I do a good deal of
> my work with my laptop and I keep all my notes in text files when I
> realize the need for a next action I add it to the text file.

You might be interested in doing what I do (have done for almost 15
years): I use a plain text file... sorta. It's an mboxish file -- enough so
that I can manipulate it with mbox tools and find entries that I want. I can
mount it with any mail program and sort, search, etc.

An example header:

From betty
Date: Sat 24 Sep 2005 08:15:17 PM EDT
Subject: Essay - Seasons
Publish: ch

The From line is required to start an entry, and I put the hostname of the
system I'm using (betty is my laptop, riffraff the system in the closet and
tim, susan, nell and barry are the work servers). The date is autostamped
usually. Subject is "type - keywords". Publish is a new field I added
fairly recently, and it ties to a few blogs (I started this before the web
existed, let alone blogging).

I have them all in $HOME/doc/text/journal/, and they are named by four
digit year. I'm currently editing ~/doc/text/journal/2005.


--
Evan "JabberWokky" Edwards
http://www.cheshirehall.org/

[Dave Price]

Dave,

I use linux, and mostly command-line / text applications for day-to-day work. 
I would love to take a look at what you a doing with bash.

aloha,
dave

[timseal]

Definitely interested

[dave.gi...@gmail.com]

I'm working on writing up the script plus an explanantion so Merlin can
post it up to the Mother Ship

Dave