The Glass is Too Big - Home

I've been carrying my new Hipster PDA: Pierced Edition for a bit now and have started to accumulate both completed ToDo lists (very gratifying to tear up) and a stack of notes, taken over the days. The question of what to do with those notes, most of which are little more than a sentence or two, an idea, etc. has been nagging at me almost since the beginning. I looked at GTDWiki, but having not yet read the GTD book (it arrived yesterday though), it didn't seem to accomodate the wide variety of stuff I want to have "written down". However, a few days ago, I ran into a standalone Wiki with autosave, etc. that has really been clicking with me: wikidPad (be sure to note the "d" in the middle. I was for several days and lots of other sites still are missing that "d"). It's freeform enough to be flexible, yet structure can be imposed into it for doing things like GTDWithWikidPad.

I prefer the standalone versions of things that I rely on for constant use. Clearly I'm not alone, asthis posting shows. So, in the spirit of "fix it instead of complaining", I whipped up an FTP sync setup for wikidPad. It actually took longer to write up than it did to build (not like that's a rarity), but the end result is relatively simple and serves as an example of stringing things together even when they weren't necessarily designed for it. In this case, wikidPad remains entirely unmodified, yet with FTP capabilities added when it opens and closes. I didn't want to have to dig into the Python source (and later have to deal with either syncing my change to the main tree or constantly reapplying my patch for new releases) and only had a short bit of time to dedicate to it.

The end result is a quick, cross-referenced way to file all of these ideas and quick snippets of text that would be cumbersome in individual text files and wasteful to file on paper into cabinets. My personal wiki is filling up FAST and quickly becoming my main notetaking tool while at a computer. And, the Hipster becomes an extension of that while in the field.

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