A Tinderbox Toolshed
The Front Door
There's No Place Like Home
GTD-Take it From the Top
Quick Notes
About Me
About ProtoTyping
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Put in a New Context - Part III - Project and Actions Setup
Put in a New Context - Part II - The Agent
Put in a New Context - Part I - The Prototype
A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words
The Workbench
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Read More of the Story II: The Templates
My ToDo List
The Storage Shed
The Junkdrawer
A Document with a View
One of the powerful features of Tinderbox is is the ability to enlist different Views for navigation and modification of your document. Importantly for Getting Things Done, these Views can work together or independently, depending on the View. This allows one to separate Project input from Action output so that you can work with uninterrupted flow. You can always move to a more appropriate View to see a particular note in context or modify the note as needed.
What you do to a note in a particular window all depends on your point of View.
I keep five Views open at all times:
- Outline:Professional Agents
- Outline:Due Today and Past Due
- Outline:Repeating Projects
- Outline:GTD Rules Template (collapsed outline serving as index)
- Explorer View (fully expanded)
I'll go into more detail soon about where in the outline these Views come from.
In the meantime, I use Expose to reveal all the Views, which are labeled for quick selection. Then, depending on whether I'm in Input mode or Output mode, I select my next action, or navigate to Explorer View with a quick Select, Spacebar, and Command R sequence.
Though it may seem like a lot of windows, when you are in the flow, your next action item is clearly presented in one of three Outline Views; Due Today and Past Due, Professional Agents, or Repeating Projects. When it's time for your daily or weekly review, the GTD Rules Template and Explorer View are open for finding, inputing and organizing your projects and actions. In time and with the help of Expose, moving between Views becomes an effortless part of GTD with Tinderbox.
A Shed with a View
Tinderbox Help
GTD on the Web
My Toolbox
The Bookshelf
Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal
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