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Edward Vielmetti

More options Dec 11 2004, 11:59 pm

From: Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielme...@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:59:07 -0500

Local: Sat, Dec 11 2004 11:59 pm

Subject: Re: [43F Group] Tagged to-do's

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sounds like fun.

it gives me great temptation to put my todo lists on the web in
Socialtext wiki pages and tag them with delicious as is. (or take
pictures of my todo lists and tag with Flickr). the objective of both
is to get some broader audience aware of what I'm up to.

tags are certainly more useful than say categories for the task
because the understanding is that you can create tags on the fly and
use them for as long as you need them and then ignore them.

Have you thought about using Gmail's mail tagging and filtering for
your todo lists? Email yourself reminders, and have Gmail auto-tag
things for you. That handles the intimacy gradient problem of not
wanting to expose your todos to the world, though it doesn't get you
offline todo'ing away from the wifi electrosmog.

tagging this with lazyweb,

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:20:55 -0500, Zach Paine <zach.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been thinking of writing an application (for OS X) for managing my
> lists.

> I manage all my to-do's currently using text files and emacs. I like
> the flexibility and ease of editing it provides, but I've been thinking
> about ways to improve the system.

> I've been thinking about extending the idea of "tags" (a la
> del.icio.us) to my to-do list.

> It seems like one of the most powerful suggestions that I got out of
> GTD is the idea of contextual lists. However, the problem is that one
> to-do may not apply to only one context.

> The idea being that you can apply any number of tags to an item. I.e.
> the item "Bounce tagged to-do idea off 43folders" could have the tags
> "email", "online" and "low energy".

> Then when deciding the proper context for any given moment, you have
> can define it with a lot more flexibility.

> Comments, suggestions, flames?

> -Zach

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