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This post has two purposes, first to describe the kinkless to gtdalt converter, and second to describe my gtd format as it currently stands and is used in the GTDAlt bundle.
Update: The converter has now been updated to deal with subprojects (thanks bbum for bringing this to my attention!). Also, there is a command now in the bundle. Just open the OPML file in TextMate and run the command.
Let’s start with the converter:
Mike Mellor has been doing a lot of great work with the GTD bundle, which I must say I have not really followed, basically because I’ve had no time and my own ideas about how a GTD bundle should be. Here in fact is my take on it. It is kind of inspired by Kinkless I guess.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The GTDAlt bundle now lives in the Subversion Repository of Bundles for TextMate. You can find details on how to access bundles this way here. The version on my website linked to in the previous paragraph will NOT be updated any more.
I apologize for the inconvenience to those of you not using subversion, but I can assure you that following the above instructions is pretty painless, and the benefits to my sanity and general state of mind are too numerous to list here.
Update: Added support for notes, and corrected errors because of empty lines (thanks Alan). Here’s a new and improved screencast, with sound. I still have problems with the sound though, it goes faster than the video. It’s quite irritating. There’s a new screenshot at the end.
Update2: Simplified the language grammar, and refined the syntax highlight a bit. Also, there is now a script to convert the Kinkless file to this format.
Update3: Fixed some bugs with the document parser.
Update4: Incorporated additions by Alan Schussman for archiving and moving lines around.
Update5: Totally revamped. A lot of documentation added here. Also added RDoc documentation for the ruby classes underlying the bundle. It can be found inside the bundle, under Support/bin/doc/index.html.
Update6: Added GTDFile.next_actions, GTDFile#next_actions and Project#next_action. Rearranged the menu. Added command for generating an HTML of all next actions.
Update7: Fixed grammar to work at end of line.
Inspired by a recent discussion on the TextMate list, I was inspired to create a “proof of concept” set of “global bookmarking” commands for TextMate. There are three commands in this set. The first one saves a bookmark to the current line on a global file, which I have named Read the rest of this entry »/Users/haris/testing.magic, but which you will probably have to rename (in all three bundles), unless you have done me the honor of using my name for your computer user’s name. Here is the code of the “save bookmark” command:
I haven’t been writing much here because I am hard at work to finish my thesis, so I only write about things that come up while I do that. In particular, here is a picture that I particularly like and that is quite relevant to my thesis, believe it or not. Can you guess what it is?
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Btw, it was all done in Ruby.
Later
