Recently in Getting Things Done Category

I’ve been doing a major filesystem re-org lately in my ongoing mission to Get More Done. In the spirit of GTD, I created several directories starting with an “@” — @ARCHIVE, @PROJECTS, etc.

All was well and good until I tried to cd @<tab> in the parent directory. Rather than get a directory listing showing me the directories starting with @, it listed available network interfaces:

> cd @
@::1 @broadcasthost @localhost

What the heck? I asked around, and this morning on IRC I got my answer:

tell redmonk that bash thinks you’re typing user@host
use shopt -u hostcomplete to turn that off

Hm…

> shopt -u hostcomplete
> cd @
@ARCHIVE @PROJECTS

W00t! (Thanks to deltab on #swhack for the tip)

I’m just beginning to work on my own GTD system, and I’m using OmniOutliner 3 Pro for a good part of my action list management. Since David (Allen, author of ::amazon(“0142000280/merlinsblog-20”,”Getting Things Done”)::) recommends using your calendar to manage the hard landscape, I have appointments and such in iCal.

Today I wrote a short AppleScript that pulls today’s appointments from iCal into an OmniOutliner document called Today.oo3, stored (by default) in ~/GTD/. It’s nothing fancy, and I’d be open to suggestions if anyone tries it and has ideas.

The script can be found here:

http://redmonk.net/files/makeTodayOutline.txt

Bugs: for some odd reason, the script may grab all-day events from the next day.

Next action: add a column for the time of the event.