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The mention of the all-in-one-text-file...How does a geek hack GTD? By: Merlin Mann (48 replies) September 15, 2004 - 6:52am |
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The mention of the all-in-one-text-file...
The mention of the all-in-one-text-file idea triggered my recollection of setext, a structured text format from way back when (early 90’s), and how it could easily accomodate GTD list structures. Does anybody remember it? I think setext got short shrift. Setext stuctured text documents in a way that rendered it hierarchical and emminently navegable in setext readers yet allowed for easy reading/editing in a plain text editor. Tidbits was (still is?) distributed in setext format. The Mac setext viewer was called Easy View written by Akif Eyler.