Mi lista de incompletos

fmonera — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:04:09 +0000

Una de las actividades importantes en GTD es realizar un completo “Mind Sweep” (barrido mental) tan a menudo como sea posible, y al menos una vez por semana en la revisiÃ³n semanal.

Â¿De quÃ© se trata? Se trata de conseguir bajar a un papel todo lo que tienes en la cabeza y que reclama tu atenciÃ³n.

Â¿Para quÃ© sirve? Sirve para liberar al cerebro de una de las tareas que peor hace: Recordar. El cerebro es muy bueno generando ideas y conectando las ideas para generar nuevas. Es decir, es bueno procesando. Pero es deplorable como almacÃ©n de informaciÃ³n. Un desastre. De hecho, si tiene muchas cosas que recordar encima no es capaz de procesar.

Â¿CÃ³mo se hace? Volcando todo lo que tienes en la cabeza a un papel. De verdad, probadlo. La sensaciÃ³n de bajada de estrÃ©s y de incremento de control y perspectiva es muy alta. Es importante que el volcado sea completo. Si todavÃa retienes cosas en la memoria, el control no serÃ¡ total y la eliminaciÃ³n del estrÃ©s no serÃ¡ mÃ¡xima.

Hay trucos para conseguir que el Mind Sweep sea realmente exhaustivo. Yo utilizo una Lista de Incompletos para ayudarme a hacer un Mind Sweep durante mi repaso semanal (es el paso 5 de 11 en mi repaso semanal). Simplemente leo la lista. Me detengo 1 o 2 segundos en cada elemento y si el elemento me evoca algo, lo escribo en el papel.

Os pongo aquÃ la lista de incompletos que utilizo. La original la bajÃ© en su momento de “El Canasto”, y luego la completÃ© con las listas que aparecen en los libros de David Allen y con mi experiencia personal.

incompletos.pdf

incompletos.odt

GTD: Improve integration in ThinkingRock

fmonera — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:48:43 +0000

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)”

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 )
Everything must be safe (no modifying or reading the xml file) and must survive between updates of TR

MAIN PICTURE

On the TR side, the magic is done by linking to files in the “notes” field. This links are opened by xdg-open, which in fact calls the default application for the file. Nothing new here.

On the Linux side, there is a script (I have created an icon in my panel) which:
1) shows the available templates (you can select one or more)

2) asks for -optional- base names (names and paths are not important as they will be correctly linked from within TR)

3) creates folders to store the new files (it ensures there will be no collisions, so you can have many “Brainstorming” base names for different projects ). You can choose a folder if you want, but I see no reason for that. This is done through an option’s window, which in many cases you can just accept the defaults and press enter.

4) creates new files based on copies from templates (mm, sxw, pdf, …) and puts them in the new folders

5) Shows a popup with the text you have to paste into TR

THE TEMPLATES

To find the available templates, the application looks into the TEMPLATES folder (see below). There it finds a folder for every template.

Inside every folder, there is a single file named exactly as the folder plus the corresponding extension (NOTE: This will probably be improved in future versions to be able to put more than one file on each template). You can edit the file with the corresponding application to adapt the template to whatever you want:

Obviously, you can put there whatever you want. Any kind of file.

In the end, the template file will be copied to the destination and renamed to the base name you choose.

THE CODE (and install steps)

1) Select all the text and paste it to a text file, named “tr_integration.sh” and assign execution rights (chmod 755 tr_integration.sh).

2) In the code, you will need to change:
- PROYECTOS: which points to a folder where you want to store all files and folders created
- TEMPLATES: which points to the templates folder

3) Create a shortcut available easily

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Name: tr_integration v.0.1
# License: GPL v3
# Author: fmonera at opensistemas dot com

PROYECTOS=”/home/monera/temas/personal/proyectos”
TEMPLATES=”/home/monera/temas/personal/templates”

# List of items
for I in `ls $TEMPLATES`
do
WANTEDLIST=”$WANTEDLIST $I $I off ”
ITEMS=”$ITEMS $I”
done
WANTED=`kdialog –checklist “Select items to create:” $WANTEDLIST`
if [ "X$WANTED" == "X" ]
then
exit
fi

# OPTIONS
OPTIONLIST=”newfolder NEW_FOLDER on”
OPTIONS=`kdialog –checklist “Select options for this files:” $OPTIONLIST`
echo $OPTIONS
# Parse options
NEWFOLDER=`echo $OPTIONS | grep -c newfolder`
# end parse

# dir
if [ "X$NEWFOLDER" == "X1" ]
then
NOMBRE=`kdialog –inputbox “Base name for the folder (no special characters please):” temp_folder`
DIR=`mktemp -d –tmpdir=”$PROYECTOS/” “$NOMBRE.XXXX”`
if [ "X$NOMBRE" == "X" ]
then
exit
fi
else
DIR=`kdialog –getexistingdirectory $PROYECTOS`
if [ "X$DIR" == "X" ]
then
exit
fi
fi

for I in $WANTED
do
# Unquote
I=`echo $I | cut -b 2- | cut -d’”‘ -f1`
# Create documents
NOMBRE=`kdialog –inputbox “Base name for $I (no special characters please):” $NOMBRE`
echo “NOMBRE: $NOMBRE”
echo “DIR: $DIR”
SOURCE=`find $TEMPLATES/$I -type f`
EXT=${SOURCE##*.}
DEST=$DIR/$NOMBRE.$EXT
cp $SOURCE $DEST
done

# Format TR Text
for I in `ls $DIR`
do
EXT=${I##*.}
FORMAT=`basename $I “.$EXT” | sed ‘s/_/ /g’`
TEXTO=”$TEXTOÂ Â· $EXT: [file:$DIR/$I|$FORMAT]”
done
TEXTO=”$TEXTO
”
kdialog –textinputbox “Paste into ThinkingRock:” “$TEXTO” &

You will need kdialog and mktemp. Both are available in every unix system I know.

It might work in Windows and/or MAC if you install KDE4 and adapt a bit the code. You will probably need Cygwin or, at least, mktemp for your environment. I don’t see major problems for that. Sorry, no support for Windows as I am a free software man since 1997

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Mi lista de incompletos

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