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@Merlin: Yeah, I'm one of those...iCommit: PHP app for doing GTD By: Merlin Mann (23 replies) June 27, 2006 - 4:44am
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@Merlin: Yeah, I'm one of those...
@Merlin:
Yeah, I’m one of those Mac-at-home, Windows-at-work GTD-ers you mention. I’ve fiddled with systems like iCommit, tasktoy, Backpack, and others which I can access from either work or home. It would have worked great, but for two problems:
1) I like to keep my GTD information secure on my own computer. (Not that I’m paranoid… I just like making backups. Call me crazy.) 2) I like to plan projects and next actions quickly, which means I’ve got no time to click on buttons and select things from drop-downs. Plain text or nothin’!
Obviously, if I’m doing most of my planning in plain text, a Backpack or an iCommit account is just another bucket to sync with my text files. No good.
So I’ve settled on the uber-simple: editing my text files from work using an ssh connection. At work, I use puTTY to ssh into my Mac at home, fire up emacs, and away we go. If I need to check my tasks at the office, it’s a simple “grep @office projects.txt” away. And any @home tasks I come up with at work can go straight into the text files on my Mac.