One reason I might still upgrade to the full version of VoodooPad is if I could do some scripting to automate things with the live website.

OTOH I’m beginning to obsess on the text-file way of doing things again thanks to some reading on 43 Folders, not to mention:

• the.taoofmac.com/space/CLI
• freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html
• www.minezone.org/wiki/MVance/GettingThingsDone
• www.43folders.com/2005/02/guestmikeharr.html
• www.43folders.com/2004/09/quicksilver_app.html
• www.linuxjournal.com/node/3529/print
• www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/4988
• www.flickr.com/photos/merlin/5319224/
• www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/5695

I was just reading up on some traditional Easter fare. In the really old days, lamb was the traditional meat dish and still is in some parts of the world. I think though in the US ham has taken over as the main item. Eggs have been an Easter dish forever, of course.

From what I was reading, the Pennsylvania Dutch (who weren’t really Dutch but rather German) like to use glazed hams at Easter. One of their side dishes which sounds like it would go really well with the ham are some pan-roasted potatoes.

Also on the Easter food front is a British tradition of having hot cross buns. The theory was that any bread baked on Good Friday would never go moldy and would have special healing effects. The Brits would make bread with crosses on the top for Easter — which is where the name ‘hot cross buns’ comes from. Now, the Penn. Dutch also like to have homemade rolls with their Easter dinner too, so we could have some of our own ‘hot cross buns’ too! :)

I think I might split my ‘Currently’ ooutlines into Office and Home. Seems like it would make sense and reduce visual clutter. Would make sense for the HPDAs to do that as well.

It’s part of the whole ‘granularity’ thing — dividing things into the proper number+scale of categories. Like, for example, my categorization last year (Body, Cooking, Family+Friends, etc.).

My Do lists took on a higher-level last year, which worked fine until I started getting dozens and dozens of items, like this week when my brain melted.

So with the split of Office and Home, what about splitting it further into Writing, etc.?

What about re-consolidating them (since I don’t want a dozen ooutlines open simultaneously) into one ooutline, but each category with its own section? Seems like I did this before during my initial experimentation. Problems arise in the addition of the time factor — answering questions e.g. what needs doing on Monday?

Of course GTD talks about the idea of location-specific lists, or rather context-specific lists, so that if you’re in your @Office, you have your office list, if you’re away from everywhere but have your phone, you can use your @Phone list, etc. Which may be more what I’m talking about. Some things can be done anywhere.

Need to read some more.

There are differences among Topics and Contexts and Activity Types, and I have a feeling I’ve been mixing the three.

I wanna get rid of my wallet.

Take only what’s absolutely necessary (ID, Credit Card, throw it in a pocket Moleskine, write down the numbers/stuff that’s absolutely necessary. And be done with it.