TiddlyTweeter, Thanks for this great feedback and thoughts. People like you are the kind of folks who makes it not just effective, but also fun, to use TW.
I'll reply inline to what you said. On Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 2:11:29 PM UTC-4, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Excellent to have this laid out so well ... I'll comment on ToDos > > *Third question: *What do you, TW users, use as your favorite note taking >> app and your To-Do app, if it's *not *TW? Especially as TW users, who >> respect and like TW, but feel that it does only Wiki... stuff? What have >> you learned to count on? >> > > I'm old and worn out. I've seen the rise and fall of more GTD systems than > God. Before they went computer they were filofax. Before filofax they were > note assemblies. Before note assemblies they were etc ... I worked through > Covey, MindMaps, Giants Within, ultimate systems etc ... > > The point about GTD's, it turns out was never the systems, it was always > the user. There is NO GTD system that fits all. The BEST GTD's are ones you > create for yourself that emerge from your own process that fit you. In > other words: decent GTD systems are emergent expressions of you, they are > themselves part of the GTD you are working on. In that regard TW is very > good because of the extent you can customize it. And, to use a > philosophical term, TW inherently supports "reflexivity". > > But still I want to widen your query to answer it properly. The options > are WIDER than software. They have to be because software is not me per se. > Software is an animal I can train, but only to the extent to which it can > perform the tricks I need. And paper remains pretty damn good for lateral > thinking and I use it a lot. And GTD's that last are adaptive to thinking > about "what am i doing?" as much as "when am i doing it?" Its been a big > error in the history of GTDs to ever pretend otherwise. > I agree with you deeply sir. I'm guessing I'm not as experienced as you, but I am tired of productivity apps and to-do list apps out there that are based on yet another company sitting on Amazon's servers somewhere hoping to create an account for you and then down along the line some social-network, and if they survive long enough, integrate some sort of a chat app into it as well.. man, it's a pattern I see time and time again. Don't care. TW is a private thing for me (it's my journal), it is not really meant to share as a to do app, and if I want to ask someone to do something, I make a to do to tell that person to do it.. right? I digress. GTD is one big cult thing I missed on. I have the book and all and tried it, but it just didn't do the thing for me. I have my own system, which I developed throughout the years, and it is this system that survives through the apps, and made its way into TW as well for a while. If you want to share more of how you actually write your projects and tasks down, even show me if you will, I'd be more than happy to see. > > For people who need ALARM CALLS to GTD, TW does not yet fit the bill. It > has no alert mechanism that can prod the somnambulant GTDer to awake to The > Priority. > > I have been very impressed and now use daily Thomas Elmiger's ToDoNow > plugin for TW. Why? Its orientated to the singular user. Its agnostic about > ones aims. It depicts tasks in CONTEXT (for me that OVERVIEW is more > important than the singular tasks). Its one of the most elegant designs for > a GTD I ever seen in my years of travail on the ToDo path. > > Then you have Cardo in TW that can deal with very complex projects. And if > I was running one I'd definitely consider it. Its not far off full Project > Management Software, yet without the complexity of their interfaces. > I took a deep look. It looks impressive, and I'm working out how to use it exactly. Thomas' work looks solid and he is very organized, but the "jump" is too high for me to understand at first or second glance. I'm going to install the plugin, run it, work on it, see how it works, maybe get in touch with him directly. When I understand how it works I'll see if it fits my needs. I hope so, because saving my tasks and projects in TW, along with my journal notes and my personal information, makes perfect sense. I'd love to replace it with Google Keep, which I now use, if possible. > > --- > > Okay you asked what I used, seriously, before TW, it was a DOS program, > InfoSelect. Now gone, long replaced by a crappy Windows version. I'd love > to implement in TW how that worked if I had the skill. Its display > mechanism was brilliant. Everything was by default OPEN. Then as you typed > into the filter the widgets on screen reduced to only what you needed. I > loved it. You didn't search then click on an item. The search itself > dynamically reduced the entries. Unicode killed it unfortunately. It was > ASCII only. > > Best wishes > Josiah > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/61a2a64a-c354-4742-8af1-9b78e52afae9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
