I use Quick Add a lot to create projects for my travels. Each travel is
unique, but still has the the same tasks every time: Create a travel
request, order tickets, order hotel, create a travel claim etc. Some of
these are Next actions (such as Create travel request), while others are
future actions (such as Create travel claim). I like to make ticklers of
future actioins, just to make sure that I am reminded of them when its time
to to handle them (I don't know if this is OK according to GTD, but it works
for me).
The problem has been that suing Quick Add, everying but the project text
became actions, so I had to go in and modify them to ticklers every time. I
therefore tried to modify the Quick Add code to add ticklers as well. I
turned out to be doable with very few changes.
Here is how it works, given the following input to Quick Add:
Travel to NYC 16-20 Nov 2009
.Create travel request for travel to NYC 16-20 Nov 2009|N|Office
.Create travel claim for travel to NYC 16-20 Nov 2009|20091123|Office
This creates a project for a business trip with one Next action (the travel
request) and one tickler (the travel claim) which kicks in the first Monday
back at work after the travel (23 Nov).
The code for this is given below, pardon the clumsy style, I'm no Javascript
programmer. I suggest this an enhancement to the Quick Add functionality -
what do you think?
- Erlend
The code is added to tiddler MgtdProcessInbox (see right hand column, tab
More..., subtab TW, subtab All, find it in the list, open and edit it). It
is basically the new block of code marked below instead of the
single fields.push("Action"); line and then a modification to last
line of the saveTiddler() call to add the date for tiddlers.
if (document.getElementById('piShowActions').checked)
displayThese.push(title);
//------------ begin code for tickler in Quick Add -------------
var ticklerdate="";
var tmpfields=new Array();
for (var ii=0;ii<fields.length;ii++)
if(fields[ii].substr(0,2) == '20') //this fails after 31 Dec 2099...
ticklerdate=fields[ii];
else
tmpfields.push(fields[ii]);
if(ticklerdate){
fields=tmpfields; //remove ticklerdate from fields
fields.push("Tickler","Once"); // make it a one shot tickler
}
else
fields.push("Action"); // make it an action
//------------ end code for tickler in Quick Add -------------
if (currentProject.trim() != "")
fields.push(currentProject); // make it in this project
// these should be configurable
var automagicContexts = {
'Call':'call',
'Errand':'buy'
};
for (amc in automagicContexts) {
var checkExists = store.fetchTiddler(amc);
var startString = automagicContexts[amc];
if (title.substr(0,startString.length).toLowerCase() == startString &&
checkExists && checkExists.hasTag('Context')) {
fields.push(amc);
}
}
if (store.tiddlerExists(title))
alert("Warning: '"+title+" already exists, did not
create");
else
store.saveTiddler(
title,title,
tiddlerText ? tiddlerText : "", // content
config.options.txtUserName,
new Date(),
fields, // tags
ticklerdate ? {'mgtd_date':ticklerdate} : null // tickler's date, if set
<<== Tickler in Quick Add
);
}
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