Staying organised (part 1,657432)

It's a rather flippant title but just an indication that staying organised is an ongoing process.

At the moment I am reading the book Getting Things Done by David Allen. He advocates getting all the information about current actions and projects out of your head and into some kind of external system.




This, he argues, frees you up to have creative thoughts and become able to deal more effectively with the 'stuff' that just arrives in your in tray each day.

Part and parcel of this concept is having a place or places to put all those project details. It could be a filing cabinet or a stack of index cards but the computer offers lots of possibilities.

One of these is to use a TiddlyWiki that is set up in accordance with the ideas in the book. Good news there is such a thing.

TiddlyWiki is lot like the Wikipedia idea except that you can keep it all on your disc drive or memory stick. You use it through a FireFox browser (other browsers work too) to create your very own Wikki.

It really neat; try these links to find out more
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
The version I am trialing at the moment is D Cubed at
http://dcubed.ca/Welcome_to_d-cubed.html

I know it's going to take some discipline to put all my projects and actions on this way but I'm actually quite excited by this!

The TiddlyWiki programs are for free but most will accept PayPal donations to keep down their costs.