Tuesday, February 17, 2004

They nailed me tools for getting things done (via Gregor) For managing todo tasks, I am currently toggling back and forth between an openoffice spreadsheet for the day's discrete coding tasks where I do a little bit of PSP-style estimating, emacs scratch buffer for stuff I need to do very soon, i.e. before I shut emacs down emacs wiki mode for tasks related to projects I'm working on ... ones where the solution might help me write ChangeLogs, or benefit from annotation and archiving, and emacs-todo mode for the longer-term stuff I really just want to forget. Leo - no reason, just because I don't like to be predictable. Once you start doing things with dumb ascii formats (CVS, emacs quick find, local and remote editing/web publishing, etc) the 'lock-in' is pretty strong. The big difference is that the lock-in feels more like the kind you get with a comfortable pair of jeans - hard to give up but it's only other folks who'll complain about it. As a bonus, you get to save your learning-curve bandwidth for more interesting things than todo lists. 1:16:05 PM      comment []  trackback []