TiddlyWiki time manager plugin
grough
but I'm not an experienced JavaScript or macro developer. I'm
wondering if anybody here can point me to something that exists
already, or steer me in the right direction. The idea is for a very
simple time management tool - something that tells you what you're
supposed to be doing right now until some time later.
Here's a usage scenario that will clarify its purpose:
It's 6:15PM, and I have my personalized TiddlyWiki open in my browser
ready to do some work. I look at the header section of my wiki and I
see a message...
Work on website design until 8PM - open notes
I click "open notes" and my WebDesignIdeas tiddler opens up. I look
at my notes, work on the site for a couple of hours, taking more notes
as I go. Now it's 8:05PM, and I notice the message has changed. It
says...
Put together MP3 mix for Meg until 9:30PM - open notes
I click "open notes" and my TunesForMeg tiddler opens up. So you
get the idea... It's just a time management tool that tells you what
you're supposed to be doing at the present time.
I'm not sure how the actual task list would be implemented as a
tiddler. Something like:
[Work on website design] 6PM 8PM WebDesignIdeas
[Put together MP3 mix for buddy] 8PM 9:30PM TunesForMeg
So that when you call <<currentTask>> at a certain time, the correct
task (if one exists) is rendered in its place. I suspect somebody has
already built a TiddlyWiki task system that could be used instead of
reinventing the wheel.
I imagine the DatePlugin (http://www.tiddlytools.com/#DatePlugin) would
be helpful somehow. As for the rest of the guts of the macro/plugin,
I'm a little mystified.
If anyone has any ideas or can point me in the right direction, I would
be very grateful.
Gavin
Daniel Baird
there's nothing other there that will do exactly what you want) but
have you looked at GTD? It helps you with the same decision ("what
should I do now?") but in a different way.
If you're interested post back here and I'll share some links.
Cheers
;Daniel
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Daniel Baird
> Daniel - I'm vaguely familiar with GTD, but not with respect to TiddlyWiki.
> Please do share some links. Thanks a lot.
Okay, try these..
Merlin Mann's intro to GTD:
http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done/
Wikipedia has a slightly sterile overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD
Your GTD in TiddlyWiki options are between:
= GTDTiddlyWikiPlus (aka GTDTW+)
..started life as an adaptation of TiddlyWiki by Nathan Bowers, now a
layout/style maintained by the (legendary) Clint Checketts.
This is very simple and doesn't help so much with the process of doing GTD.
http://tiddlystyles.com/#GTDStyleSheet
= MonkeyGTD
..started as a proof-of-concept by the (legendary) Simon Baird and
enthusiastically adopted by GTD folk. Clean look, nice feel, and a
sweet, sweet logo that I designed :)
http://monkeygtd.tiddlyspot.com/#About
= D cubed (aka D3)
..is the most heavyweight of the GTD offerings, with all sorts of
great features like auto-updating etc. Well supported by Tom Otovos.
Both MonkeyGTD and D3 are available as starting flavours on
tiddlyspot.com, so you can try them both out there.
Also, let me do a little contrast of GTD and your proposal:
In your propsed system, at some point you would have to make a bunch
of decisions about how much time you should be spending on each
project, and when. That is when you set up the messages you were
talking about (telling you to work on Project A from 10am to 11:30am
etc).
A possible problem with that is interruptions -- coz if you get an
important 20-minute-long phone call, or your spouse walks in and wants
to talk about your upcoming holiday for half an hour, you're off your
schedule for the rest of the day.
Also, you might have something scheduled that you do best when your
energy level is high, but when that time arrives you mightn't be
feeling at the top of your game.
GTD basically gives you an airtight way to manage a list of things to
do that means it's easy to check the list and pick the thing that
matches the situtation -- your location (eg you're at a cafe with your
laptop..) your available time (eg you have a lunch date in 20
minutes..) and energy level.
One of the core ideas of "GTD" is that for every project or outcome
you want to achieve, you identify the next _specific_, _physical_
action you need to take to move the project along. Your "to do" list
is a list of all those "next actions". So when you want to know what
to do now, you just pick something off the list.
This is diffferent than a non-GTD to-do list, which is usually a list
of your current projects. If you have 15 minutes before lunch, to
decide what to do you'd need to look at every project on the list, and
for each, figure out what specific task you could do right now. With
GTD the "working out what exactly to do" is already done. So if you
have low energy or not much time, you can still easily pick something
that you can do.
Another core idea is that you put _everything_ into your system. Then
it's out of your head. If you don't capture everything, you have to
keep reminding yourself of stuff, and you never know for sure if
you're working on the right task. If it's all in your system, you
know for sure that you're making the right decisions about what to
do.. and you can even decide to do something completely different and
unscripted, with the confidence that you know for sure that the stuff
you're deciding NOT to do is ok.
Anyway.. that's perhaps a bit too much GTD advocacy for you! If
you're gonna buy the book (which I highly recommend) please think
about going to danielbaird.com and buying it via my amazon affiliate
link -- I keep hoping that one day that thing will pay off! ;)
Cheers
;Daniel
Jel
The core is the use of journals as a diary scheduler. The first and simplest idea is a bar line on the lower margin showing elapsed time, with markers linking to journals. A future journal is your life scheduler, a past journal is the diary. Three Up-Down-Sideways buttons on the right end of the bar (ie the bar itself lives in a box) give future, access today's journal, past, and a menu button on the LHS or top gives everything else .<br> The second idea is to somewhat adapt all the manual small paper diary systems (no names, no pack drill) to TW, so what are now simply Tiddlers and Journals expand to include People to contact, Activities, Goals, each of these also a Tag, <br> These have become so uniquitous that although certain operations might wish to protect their coding ideas, they still have to challenge the oldest I know of, Rudyard Kiplings "Serving Men" as a master model, which rather subverts their claims to copyright. and patent. Another planning model I learned nearly 5 years ago is the military Orders template, Ground-Situation-Mission-Execution-Administration/Logistics-Command structure-Questions, and a third is a memory aid, "Men-Money-Materials-Machines-Methods-Motivation", as template structures.
On Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:10:10 UTC+1, grough wrote:
I have an idea for a TiddlyWiki macro/plugin that I desperately need,http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_serving.htm