Comments on: GTD: SiteBar/Wiki Frankenstein Monster?

By: a million monkeys typing » SiteBar Sidebar for Firefox 1.0

a million monkeys typing » SiteBar Sidebar for Firefox 1.0 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

[…] ox extension gives you a neat sidebar so you can easily manage and use those bookmarks. I suggested using SiteBar with a wiki a few months ago for GT […]

By: Jonathan Peterson

Jonathan Peterson — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 18:13:07 +0000

ooohhhh. shiny!
I really, really like this idea. I’m using ShadowPlan on windows and have all my files on my work desktop. I’m planning on USB keyfobing the files to my home laptop, but haven’t really gotten around it doing it on a regular basis.

where are so many wiki’s, but I’m willing to bet I can find one small enough and quick enough to run happily in java/cygwin/perl, etc. and still be reasonably snappy. Be really nice to find a wiki that can operate on xml files using a URI so I could run the UI on either laptop, and keep the files on my website.

By: AdamBell

AdamBell — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:01:57 +0000

the problem with wikis as lists is that you will have to enter things more than once if you want them in more than one list. Like a work project i keep in a work list and a list for that project, but who wants to enter things twice. Right now i use outlook GTD addin and a wiki for just keeping notes
SiteBar is great though

By: dougj

dougj — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:22:35 +0000

Adam, that’s true. But I think what I’d like to accomplish with this setup is to make a web-based notebook suitable for GTD. I have any number of programs that I can use on either Linux, OS X, Windows or my Palm that can achieve most of the basics. But I do need somthing that can span all of these OSes, that can be used wherever I am (which almost always has a network connection), and that can use a centralised “repository” of organisational information that is kept portable and in sync. I haven’t played with the GTD Outlook add-in, but as I don’t use Outlook anymore, that’s not really an option anyway. I’d certainly be interesting in learning more about it, though.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 03:19:47 +0000

I’m setting up something similar at the moment, but I have the same hangup as what AdamBell mentions: do I set things up by contexts, projects, or both? And if the latter, is there a good way to link back and forth? Any given project might have actions that occur in different contexts; straightening out a billing dispute might require some information gathering at home and some phone calls to be made during the day. Keeping these things linked is where I see the GTD+wiki method breaking down. Hopefully there’s a simple, relatively intuitive way to work that out…

By: dougj

dougj — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:34:32 +0000

Kyle, I think that SiteBar and wikis have strengths you can use. There’s no reason, for example, why you can’t have two entries in SiteBar referring to the same place. And wikis were meant for easily creating cross-linking content.

By: getting things done, productively

getting things done, productively — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:39:31 +0000

GTD via Sitebar/Wiki Frankenstein Monster
Now, this is interesting: set up a Firefox extension, to create a sidebar. Add a wiki. Then create bookmarks. Essentially, a Bonsai or ShadowPlan style outline doohickey on the desktop, but on steroids, so to speak.

http://tinyurl.com/448mw