GTD: Improve integration in ThinkingRock

September 4, 2008 by fmonera · 1 Comment
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This article is about the way I organize myself (I happily follow the “Getting Things Done” metodology). To help me manage tasks and projects, I use ThinkingRock.

I have finished the infrastructure for integrating of external apps into TR (by using some scripting magic and the Notes field). At the moment it is a quick hack, but “it works for me (TM)” Razz

This article complements the KMail integration post which can be found here: http://www.thinkingrock.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2321

At the moment, I have integrated:

  • Freemind: For mind mapping and many other tasks (it is a very important app for my daily work)
  • Openproj: A MSProject like app for managing complex projects
  • TiddlyWiki: A very interesting tool for structured documentation

Adding new apps (openoffice, gimp, …) is really easy, as everything is done outside TR and without programming. I will come on this topic later.

VISION
I have just created a project/action in TR, and now I want to:

  • Attach a mindmap from an existing template very easily without bothering with filenames and folders
  • Attach a complex project from an existing template very easily without bothering with filenames and folders
  • Attach a new spreadsheet from an existing template very easily without bothering with filenames and folders
  • Keep everything related to the main project/action
  • Have all the docs available with a single click in the link
  • Easily create templates (for example I have a mind-map template with all the things I have to ask to a customer interested in elearning).
  • If I want to add 4 different files to an action, I just have to: launch the script, select the templates and press enter (this is not completely achieved at the moment Razz )
  • Everything must be safe (no modifying or reading the xml file) and must survive between updates of TR

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