On Friday, July 15, 2011 8:50:29 PM UTC+7, Ken Brucker wrote:
I'm working on migrating my note taking in meetings and 1:1s into a
TiddlyWiki and the key sticking point I have is in managing action items
that come out of the meetings. What I've seen of action trackers, they all
seem to require that actions be setup as unique tiddlers and the state is
managed via tags. That method complicates the note taking process in a
non-intuitive way and can lose the context (point in the meeting minutes)
where the action is captured.
What I've been wanting is the ability to have actions captured inline in
the minutes, along with ability to search across meetings for any open
actions for display in a Summary Tiddler. I'm not looking for one of the
full-on GTD type systems.
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Ken,
I'm afraid I can't help with your interesting idea, but thought I'd put in
my two cents in the hope that it might be helpful.
I personally think that it would be much more do-able to keep to the idea of
a tiddler being an "atomic" unit of information for anything you want to
list/display etc separately from its context.
My approach would be to change the idea of "the minutes" of a meeting to be
a collection of tiddlers rather than a single tiddler. TW's flexibility
means you can divide things up however you like, obviously in the context of
your request you've got "Action Items" vs say "Reference notes", but you
might also have relationships to projects, higher-level goals, people,
business departments, etc. The creation date is a natural sort, or you could
use a title prefix to ensure a sensible default "all-in-one" view of the
minutes of a given meeting at a whole.
I would use a single unique tag per event/meeting, plus then other ones for
the above selection/grouping dimensions.
A combination of these two tools from Eric will allow you to get a one-click
display of a given meeting, either as a collection of separate tiddlers, or
the latter one will present them all collected together in one tiddler.
http://www.tiddlytools.com/#OpenTaggedTiddlers
http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/msg/dc0857d0d61d4811
However the component "behind the scenes" tiddlers are still available as
separate units to be separately tracked, listed/displayed as you like,
taking full advantage of TW's native handling plus even more importantly
compatibility with the full range of available plugins.
I realize this isn't what you were asking for, so feel free to ignore, just
an alternative approach to consider. . .
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