The Evolution of a Wiki Entry
Who knew the heavy metal umlaut could be so illustrative of why wikis are cool?
I actually us a wiki for a big part of my personal information mangement. Check out WikidPad. Below is a screen shot of what it looks like on my computer. I have it in my startup folder, so it’s the first thing I see every day after bootup. I’ve organized it around the principles from Getting Things Done (aff.).
(Special thanks to geekanddiva for inspiring me to be more disciplined in using WikiPad with Getting Things Done.)
Update: Here’s another, more close-up screenshot in response to a discussion on the WikidPad discussion list.
June 18th, 2005 at 9:34 am
Hi there
I’m really interested in this. I have been fiddling with WikidPad for a few days now,
trying to get it to do what I want it to do. I think it’s a brilliant programme, and by coincidence I found it whilst in the middle of reading GTD too. I posted a question to the discussion list yesterday - but
I think you are one of the people who have shared your WikidPadHooks file on the list. I’m
struggling with figuring out how to format a NextActions page so that I can see all actions
grouped under project heading, and each action appears on a separate line when sent to html
so that I can print it out. Have you any ideas what I need to do? I’m not a programmer, so
don’t really know what to do - the best I can do is copy other people’s code into files!
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Stuart
June 20th, 2005 at 9:07 am
Thanks for your interest, Stuart. Unfortunately I’m not very knowledgable about Python, which is WikidPad’s programmng language, so I haven’t had much success hacking it.
In terms of daily use, I set up a separate page for each project and list the NextActions on them along with their context.
Example: todo.phone: next action that can be done at the telephone here
I also recently started putting the project name at the top of the page so that it shows up in the projects node in the tree view.
Example: project: project name here
When doing my weekly review, I actually start two instances of WikidPad. I set one of them to show the auto-generated NA list, and use the other one for navigating around and editing. I frequently use alt-F to launch the find window, then search on what I’m looking for. This is not perfect, but it’s smooth enough that I still feel productive.
Good luck!
August 24th, 2006 at 7:21 am
when i key in [font: Courier New] isnt the font supposed to change in the preview some how i end up with the [font: Courier New] in the preview too .. any insights