umm, what is the “guts” section for?

Heh. Sorry, tlrand. That’s where the actual “stuff” goes; the items of your list.

Pardon my personalized patois. ;-)

Thanks!

After I posted the comment, I stared at the file until it clicked. You drag stuff around! My initial assumption was that this was just a flat in-bucket.

I would love to see if I can hack some AppleScript to do the QS trick with OmniOutliner, which I have been using for my GTD system. Or I might just use BBedit 8 with the drawer.

I was pissing and moaning just this morning that BBEdit’s drawer doesn’t allow dragging or reordering. It’s completely vexing.

I’m actually thinking about learning just enough AScript to build something similar to what you want for BBEdit. You know there’s, like, a “move to completed items” AScript on the OmniGroup page (Here, maybe)? You might want to start with that.

Oh that was a nice little present. That script should be easy to modify.

What I’ve really wanted for a long time though is have BBEdit tied to a nice outliner. If they could make that happen creating structured docs in general (and using Latex in particular) gets to be easier than using MS word for the average user. And I wouldn’t have to wonder about which tool to open up ;-)

You might want to check out Smultron, a neat little Cocoa text editor.

http://smultron.sourceforge.net/

I use it for writing now. It has a nice pane at the left which lists open documents, and a drawer that you can use to find stuff, even showing the results in context. It’s light, easy to use, and I’m finding it better than BBEdit for simple stuff.

Kirk, you’re hired. Great tip.

So: at what, non-simple point do you feel Smultron breaks down, and what would you use for that “breaking” task in its absence?

Smultron needs two things: for the writer in me, it needs word count. (Though a quick wc -w on the command line does that easily).

Also, for the blogger in me, it needs to be able to edit files on an FTP server. For that reason, I’m using BBEdit for configuring my blog.

Do you divide the Guts section any further?

I don’t but you certainly can. I like that Einstein quote that goes “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

If you feel like some given pile can benefit from being further broken down, you should do it—as long as it doesn’t become so overly specific that it becomes hard to track and maintain, you know?

Agreed.

Markdown is a great thing for organization. It works AMAZINGLY well with Blosxom, you just upload the txt files as they are and they’re automatically converted, sorted by upload date, categoried by folder, etc. It’s a nice place for ideas to go when they get to big for @blogbench.

And if you ever lose files on your hd, they’re backed up in their original txt format on your server.

Merlin,

Just curious, why do you start your template with an a Markdown H2 (##)? Is there a contextual H1 (#) that you normally add later?

-t

Good eye, Tim!

I do that because of a nerdy little thing I do a couple times a week. I concatenate all my GTD files into one new file, apply markdown, and wrap it in an HTML template. H1 is the title of the page. :)

I like to have a hard copy to review and see where I am.

I’ve actually been able to automate almost all of it in TextMate. Pretty neat stuff.

Merlin,

I knew there was something to it! Do share!?

It’s obvious that TextMate has the power to work as a GTD command center. I’d really like to open up the discussion here about tweaking TM for GTD. I’m just learning the power of the command line and Ruby and TM seems the perfect tool to really leverage that power while still having a GUI framework.

I’ll post some ideas in the comments of “TextMate projects: faking metadata” thread comments.

odovxika zgbv.