Chapter 4 done. Safe plaintext. Mining GTD ideas.

Just finished Chapter 4 of the novel. The longest thus far, at least in terms of wordcount. Some twists I hadn’t expected, too, which is always fun. And although it came in fits and starts throughout the day (thanks to many fine interruptions), when I was writing, the words felt as if they were emerging in more of a steady flow, and I also felt back in touch with the text. (Of course, there is a real sense of the amount of editing it will need, but I’ll leave that alone for now.)

Off to do the dishes in a few minutes, then off to bed.

As much as I like VoodooPad, I’m afraid I’m going to have to move away from it for journal purposes. The proprietary file format is just too scary. Back to safe plaintext files.

In fact, I think this will be the last entry in the old vdoc, and the first in the new one.

And so it is. ;)

Should this be reverse-chronological? Should it be an individual file for each time-slice?

Oh, don’t forget grep is our friend.

Been reading up on GTD again, mining ideas.

I’ve gotten my division down now between Office (using OmniOutliner) and unOffice (using the HPDA). I’m beginning to look into the project vs action idea now.

Notes on GTD Introduction - PigPog Creativity Wiki

5 stages of GTD:

1. Collect
2. Process
3. Organize
4. Review
5. Do

Notes on GTD Methods - PigPog Creativity Wiki

‘By just putting a code in front of all of your projects, and putting the same code on tasks relating to that project, you can easily find all the related tasks with a search. It’s a simple trick, but it can be quite effective, and save quite a bit of time at the weekly review. I tried this out for a while, using a five letter code for every project.’

Intrigued by the GTD process, which I’ll probably modify extensively for experimentation purposes.