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I was looking for a way to implement David Allens "Getting Things Done" scheduling system for a PC or laptop, which led me to "43 Folders". Found a reference to Tiddlywiki there and on Wikipedia as well, and decided to have a look. After some mental indigestion - I had still have something of a mainframe COBOL programmer's mindset after all these years - I got the hang of implementing it, and it is the shiznit.

Essentially, TiddlyWiki allows you to build an HTML document that can open and close bite-size bits of info - microcontent or 'tiddlers' if you will - right there on the page, and arrange them in any order you want and link them through each other 6 ways from Sunday. It's like being able to arrange all the info you want in index cards in front of you instead of having to leaf back and forth between pages in a manual (which my experience with following links on typical Web pages).

It's freeware, runs on Firefox or IE, and there are a bunch of interesting people using it in some wild ways - everything from project management to non-linear novels and research projects.

The freeware itself is available at

http://www.tiddlywiki.com

Supplementary sites with variant products are
"Monkey Pirate Tiddly Wiki" (with more macros)
and "TiddlerWiki".

There is also a dandy tutorial available (the tiddlywiki site has the link) and links to sites that demonstrate its possibilities.


Enjoy. And don't say I never gave you nothing (besides the clap) you unthankful greasy chested lie-men.

Do you use this for scheduling? If so, how?

Tiddlywiki adapts very well to the scheduling/project management approach advocated by David Allen in his book 'Getting Things Done".
Essentially you can create a "folder"/tiddler for any aspect of scheduling you need to track, and 'tag' each folder with "wikiwords" that link to every other folder that contains the tag.

I've been using one 'vanilla' version as a training journal and homegrown "blog". I'm also building a version for condensing presenting anatomy and physiology notes and images from my time in massage school, which turns out to be both easier and harder than I thought.


There is a "TW" version out that specifically incorporates the GTD approach, along with several expanded versions.

The basic GTD version is here:

http://shared.snapgrid.com/gtd_tiddlywiki.html

THere is also a "plus" version, but I haven't messed with it yet.

Here's a link to Wikipedia that expands a bit more on the subject and points to some more resources:

http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/GTD_Tiddly_Wiki

Muchas gracias.
I am reading GTD, but I'm not sure what system I want to use. I'm not that impressed with MS Outlook.

Edit: I see GTD has an add-on to improve Outlook. Hmm.