I’ve been spending some of my free time (read that as “time when I should be working on other things but I’m procrastinating”) working on a Python script to implement some of the organizational strategies in David Allen’s Getting Things Done productivity system (if you haven’t, check out some sites like 43 Folders or Lifehack ). Tonight was a milestone in the scripting as I finished the parts of the script that will move all the items in my inbox that I’ve give an context (basically a category, if you’re not into the GTD lingo) into the correct context file.
If you don’t write programming code of any sort, you will not understand my elation since I have taken many hours to write a script that will do something that would take me 5 minutes to do by hand. My wife shares your curiosity, although she is polite enough to nod and smile when I have shown her what I have done. My fellow coders and scripters will understand why I am doing the dance of joy.
The TextMate connection is related to my quest for a text editor. On D’Arcy’s recommendation, I gave TextMate a 30 day test drive. As the demo deadline loomed, I realized that I could no longer live without TextMate. Tab triggers are the coolest thing in the world for coding HTML (or any kind of coding). I’ve written the Python script using TextMate, and I can run the script from right in the editor. The icing on the cake is that TextMate can be used as an offline blogging tool! In fact, I’m using it right now to write this entry. Pretty cool, huh?
I will release the final code once (if) I have finished. In fact, I’ll add that project to my GTD inbox right now.
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