1. My answer on that score is Portable Firefox from PortableApps.com. My environment at work is quite locked down - more prison than work place in my opinion - and PortableApps.com is a godsend. It runs directly from a USB drive with no installation required. So, Portable Firefox and my mGSD go on the stick and I always have it with me.
2. I use journal entries for keeping my personal journal - not GTD info. I ended up making a new tiddler that has all of my journal entries listed using the ForEachTiddlerPlugin (http://tiddlywiki.abego- software.de/). 3. Don't think so, though you could just star the project maybe? 4. Hopefully answer to #1 will fix that. 5. That's one way to think of it. I think of Areas like "hats" or if you've read Covey's 7 Habits, "roles". Essentially, both Realms and Areas are other ways to group related projects and actions. So in my case, I have my Realm set to "Work", then I have Areas "Shop Support" (I provide engineering support to the shop - role or hat would be "engineer") and "Leadership Team" (where I am chairman of a committee for improving work-life for the engineering dept.). My contexts of Email, Desk, Phone, Fax, etc. can be shared across Areas (so I can send emails to the shop supervisor as part of "Shop Support" or emails to my committee as part of "Leadership Team") and across Realms (I can send emails to my friends from my home computer). If I know I've only got a limited amount of time/energy I can narrow my list down quickly to the things that give me the most bang for my buck. For me, it meant I didn't have to have contexts that looked like @Work- email or @Home-email. So instead of lots of contexts, I got Realms and Areas to help refine how and when I worked on projects. Check out PortableApps.com. I think you'll find it liberating. Grant On Aug 3, 8:35 pm, Gary Buckley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I've been using Thinking Rock for GTD for a while now and have > just picked up (and transferred tasks into) mGSD, a few things either > struck me as questions or issues other people may see. > > 1. The initial hurdle to using mGSD was the fact it wouldn't save > changes on my PC at work (the IT dept have restricted internet > explorer) but was fine at home (Firefox). This was irritating as d- > cubed saved just fine and from what I could tell with a bit of > research seemed to be doing the same thing on save. I discovered that > if I did a "save as..." and specified a complete file (rather than the > file/folder combo thing) then when I opened that newly saved file I > could then use the "save changes" option. Very odd behaviour and I'd > have given in if I weren't so stubborn. > > 2. I see lots of references to "journal" tiddlers, what's the idea > with them? I like the idea of keeping journal entries in mGSD as it > would keep my Work Log and Task List in the same place. But I > couldn't see how you reviewed previous journal entries effectively. > > 3. Is there an option that will force actions to inherit the star if > their projects have it? > > 4. I've just dumped my details into mGSD from Thinking Rock and > noticed that IE slowed down a lot, is this a known issue? Running at > home firefox hasn't had any problems with speed. > > 5. I'm used to Projects, Actions and Contexts but Realms and Areas are > new to me. I get the impression Areas are like never ending Projects, > thus Projects are really sub-projects of Areas. Is this how people > use them? Realms are much more obvious as they provide a clear way to > shift focus between managing work tasks/home tasks/whatever. > > I'm really impressed with the quality of the software, nicely done. > > Cheers, > Gary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GTD TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gtd-tiddlywiki?hl=en.
