[Ma-linux] GTD/Slightly Off Topic

[Keith Bennett]

Kevin -

A wiki is an awesome tool for entering, searching, and displaying 
various kinds of information.  It's easy to use too.  I don't know if 
there are any free hosted wikis, but you could certainly put one on your 
own server, if that's an option.

There are many wiki products.  My favorite is Confluence 
(http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/), which is a commercial 
product, but with a free personal license for one user.  My only 
objection to it is that I don't think there's a way to export all the 
wiki data in a way that it could be used by another app, so you're kind 
of bound to that product.  It's very polished, though, and the folks at 
Atlassian (the software vendor who wrote Confluence) are really sharp 
and helpful.  They give free licenses to open source projects and user 
groups by the way; I just got a free license for a web development study 
group in which I participate.

- Keith



Kevin Kitts wrote:
> Hi All,
>   I've recently been reading the book GTD (Getting Things Done) - 
> though - I can't seem to find the time to complete reading the book... 
> ;-) There is some irony there somewhere...
>
> I use a mix of Windows XP, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris computers - I 
> have a Mac Laptop - but much of my workday is spent on XP using putty 
> to connect to solaris and linux computers to do Oracle database 
> related work.
>
> I have a lot of stuff to keep track of - license keys for various 
> pieces of proprietary software... and other small tidbits of 
> information that I need to store and recall when needed...
>
> Is anyone out there using any kind of web service that supports GTD 
> and can store small files for later recall?
>
> I was glancing through a web site called www.evernote.com 
> <http://www.evernote.com> that looked interesting. Support for 
> multiplatform web access, as well as Mac, Windows - and even an iPod 
> Touch client - not sure of the utility of an iPod Touch client - but I 
> have one and I thought it was a nice bonus...
>
> Any thoughts or pointers on how to adapt something like evernote to 
> GTD - or other general ideas on how a tech worker can get organized 
> most apprec.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
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