I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I’ve ditched my Palm, Palm Desktop, and Outlook for task management and switched to GTD TiddlyWiki. Since the organization I work for paid nearly $300 to send me to this seminar, I figured that I owed it to them to give these new methods my best effort. If they failed to get their money’s worth, it wouldn’t be my fault!

I still synch my Palm T5 at work to Outlook and at home to Palm desktop. I still use it for everything I always have, but just not for task managment—at least, not the way I used to. My Palm is still always with me as my ubiquitous idea capturing tool—Memo Pad is great for that. I use iSilo to convert my TiddlyWiki RSS feed so if I need access to my lists away from a desktop, I still have them. I’m still hoping for a Palm OS browser that will open a local HTML file, and interpret enough JavaScript to allow me to edit TiddlyWiki in the browser and save it back again. This system is working fine for now since I’m usually either at a desktop or laptop computer.

You may remember from previous posts that I’ve always tried to keep separate task systems for work and home. I do this becuase I don’t want my side businesses to interfere with my full-time job and vice versa. I started out with one TiddlyWiki file that had all my stuff in it but over the last few weeks I split it up into 4 separate files: Work, WorkArchive, Home, HomeArchive. During my weekly review, I paste my completed tasks and my Weekly Compass tiddler into the appropriate archive file. If I need anything I’ll know where to find it.

I’ve deleted all the unnecessary informational tiddlers—no use to wait on the computer to save information I don’t really need. My primary tiddlers in my Home Wiki are: Home Tasks, HomeWaiting, HomeSomedayMaybe, HomeProjects, HomePreFlightChecklist, Errands, WeeklyCompass, and GoverningValues. In the coming days, I’ll explain more about how I use these individual tiddlers, or lists.