A post from the GTD front
David Rosam on Jan 09 2006 at 4:28 pm | Filed under: Computers & technology
A few months ago I thought I’d found my Holy Grail of Getting Things Done. A realisation that a wiki solved many of my information handling problems, followed by a later connection with Pimki - Assaph Mehr’s potentially great cross between a wiki and PIM. A series of e-mails led to us developing an idea of how Pimki could become a brilliant framework for GTD.
I’ve been using a mixture of Palm Desktop and Pimki for the past few months, while Assaph develops Pimki 2.
Trouble is, Instiki, Pimki’s underlying wiki, has lost its focus recently. It’s getting a MySQL backend to sort out its Madeleine (sp?) storage problems, or maybe it isn’t. To be honest I’ve lost track of what is going on. Alas, it does seem there’s precious little development-wise happening, and the Instiki mailing list has become a depressing place for me as Instiki seems at best to be moving sideways.
Assaph has said he’s moving Pimki on to another platform, which is great news. But my Palm sync started getting even sicker, I was getting further and further from having even a working GTD system - let alone the one we’d discussed.
I spent a large part of a weekend looking for another wiki that would allow me to do what I wanted - have my projects, reference material and NAs all in one place. No luck. Besides, most wikis are for geeks who love doing arcane things on servers.
For some reason, I looked back at Backpack from 37 Signals and found it had moved on considerably since I had my early-adopter’s play with it some time ago. Over the past month or so, I’ve developed the best implementation of a GTD system I’ve yet had.
I started writing it up as I had a couple of requests for further details after a posted to I mailing list. Watch this space…
