LaGTD

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Are you enjoying your coffee or just obsessing about the cup you put it in?
—Melin Mann, "It’s just a cup," 43 Folders (http://www.43folders.com/2006/07/06/just-a-cup/)
This reminds me of a famous saying of Achaan Cha, the great Thai monk. He would hold up a tea cup and say, "To me this cup is already broken." Everything is like this, already broken. Why does this upset us? When we think something is not broken, we think it is intact, that it is ours, so we have to protect it. And then when it turns out we cannot protect it, that we lose it, that it breaks, that it is taken from us — as everything always is — we go to pieces. We feel as if the world is not a safe place. We become paranoid and stressed out. But if we knew, with Achaan Cha, that things were already broken, that the nature of things — and of ourselves, especially and most importantly ourselves — is brokenness, and we could learn how to embrace and accept that, then I think we can live a happy life, appreciating the preciousness of what comes to us and goes from us. . . . So even though we might grieve, we are not surprised or shocked. We knew the cup was broken to begin with. It was always broken. . . . Bring me the rhinoceros fan. Bring me success, money, bring me love, bring me satisfaction, bring me happiness, beauty. Sorry, it is already broken.
—Norman Fischer, "Rhinoceros Fan," Everday Zen Foundation (http://www.everydayzen.org/teachings/talk_rhinocerosfan.asp)

Currently reinitializing GTD. See also: Daily 5 | LifeHacks

Table of contents
1 Upgrade

1 Set up: Reboot
2 Tweak iCal syncing
3 Publish iCal to TextDrive
4 Shape Your Day
5 Mind Sweep Web Projects
6 Refinements (someday/maybe)
7 See also
8 Resources

8.1 misc
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Upgrade

  • Upgrade kinkless: done
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Set up: Reboot

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Tweak iCal syncing

  • Refine kGTD => iCal syncing done
    • Set colors for contexts (K > iCal) done
      • Notes: Coordinate w/Activty Stream color coding; must select the cal name in kGTD, then set background color; test on one context first;
    • In iCal, organize contexts into groups done
      • what the fzck: ical is showing me completed tasks from 2004!!! I have 'delete taks older than 30 days" ON and "hide tasks 1 day after completed" ON?!?!?! (exit and restart)
    • Tweak layout for legibility and navigation done
  • 2nd pass persAdmin: review & update projects/actions done
  • Refs:
      • 43F: Contextlove (http://www.43folders.com/2006/02/27/contexts/)
      • 43F: 3 cool tricks in kGTD (http://www.43folders.com/2006/06/26/kgtd-tricks/) (fallow projects, setting color for iCal contexts, "twin")
      • 43F: iCal Tips (http://www.43folders.com/2006/06/29/ical-tips/)
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Publish iCal to TextDrive

  • Publish iCal to TextDrive
    • Getting error msge: do I need to use WebDav? yes
    • And, won't work till domain name propagates, for some reason (?)
    • OK, even with my new domain name I get error msges
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Shape Your Day

[T]ry to shunt some of the mental load into sub-projects and better verb choices in your tasks. . . . [T]his is ultimately all about choosing valuable work and then tracking it as simply as possible via carefully-worded task reminders. No amount of meta-crap can magically transform junk tasks into stuff you really want or need to do. Contexts can help shape your day, but they’re less than useful if they don’t track realistically to the demands of your work.
—Melin Mann, "Back to GTD: Simplify your contexts," 43 Folders (http://www.43folders.com/2006/07/31/simplify-contexts/)
  • Tweak Next Action lines for legibility (& layout in iCal)
  • Tweak contexts for clarity
  • Use wiki pages if that proves more effective
    • Project templates
    • Review templates
    • Set up in private namespace

Note: The kGTD system is based on the core GTD idea that: "I plan in projects, but I act in contexts." But for me, and I think many so-called knowledge workers, that's a false and misleading dichotomy. Especially for people involved in authoring or creative work (including programming and design), the context of actions is defined, to a large extent, in terms of projects, by mental mode and momentum — what I've turned my attention to and loaded into short term memory. Projects form a horizon of thought, and shifting gears between projects rapdily, even just to scan a list of tasks organized by, say, "online: admin," makes spagetti of my concentration. See Joel on Software on the myth of multi-tasking.

Maybe (well, yes, probably) I'm more sensitive to this than most people -- sticky attentional investment syndrome, something like that, a.k.a hyperfocus, deep niche diving, or, just possibly, deep thought? Granted, it's unfortunate that it's so hard to turn it off! Also, apparently, the toll of context shifting gets worse with age. Hey, great! So, clearly, I need to massage the GTD system to serve these cogito-attentional realities. Maybe that's partly why, without thinking, I started using the wiki like this, as a kind of spatial and fungible back end to kGTD that allows me to track tasks in project context, without getting lost in the whole kGTD overview and routine.

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Mind Sweep Web Projects

  • Mind sweep web dev projects & tasks
    • Flesh out web studioArchive project
    • Pull out hard copy files
  • Initiate procedures for reviews: daily/weekly/monthly :
    • Find method for doing daily review/planning w/out getting sucked into project view: use iCal
    • Create templates (wiki pages?) for weekly and monthly reviews
  • References:
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Refinements (someday/maybe)

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See also

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Resources

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misc

  • infinite (http://infinite.tiddlyspot.com/), GTD in tiddlywiki
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