Tagged Posts: PKM
Ton Zijlstra has some provoking thoughts about the limitations of GTD-like systems :Ton’s Interdependent Thoughts: Thoughts on GTD System Weaknesses
In short, Ton highlights the increasing need to apply qualitative (and often social- and/or network-based) approaches to filter the info-glut before you can start putting actions into a GTD-like process.
I think he’s spot on, and it made me think a little more analytically about my personal organisation system, loosely-based on GTD, but heavily reliant on the capabilities of MindManager enhanced by ResultsManager.
ResultsManager adds a project– and action-planning capability to MindManager by allowing any topic in any mind-map to be tagged with task-related metadata, and further, the ability to define “dashboard” maps which cut across the information, pulling together a view based on whatever criteria the dashboard author chooses.
In the most GTD-like aspects of the process, this makes it easy to create a mindmap of “Today’s Next Actions” across all of my projects, but the filtering capabilities are very powerful and allow many other views to be created.
Key aspects of this system which, I think, go some way to addressing the issues Ton raises are:
- Ability to store, manipulate and interpret information within the context of a given project or concern, yet pull out and record cross-links;
- Clear signalling of which ideas do not have any current “Next Action”, and which therefore may need further thought to continue developing actionable sense;
- An easy way top bring in external information sources – for example by using a MindManager map part to import the content of an RSS feed, I can connect this information management system to my wider information-gathering and filtering processes.
Ton’s closing challenge is for a system to present patterns about activity that could in turn become “inbox” items – this definitely needs further thought, but my intuition is that a combination of tagging and feed-derivation could take some kind of a log for re-ingest to the “machine”.
Technorati Tags ActionableSense, GTD, MindManager, PKM, ResultsManager
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2008-02-01:
Technorati Tags , cio, enterprise_it, PKM, tco
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-04-19
- Cleaning up iTunes plist XML:
Two-pass approach - changing the iTunes plist format to a clean XML hieratrchy and then processing that
Keywords: XML, XSL, iTunes
- GNU Wget - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF):
Homepage for the GNU Wget project
Keywords: tools/wget, GNU
- Windows Wget files:
Windows builds of the popular wget tool
Keywords: tools/wget
- Wget local copies of your online research (del.icio.us, digg or Google Notebook) - Lifehacker:
More applications of wget
Keywords: research, workflow, pkm, tools/wget
- Geek to Live: Mastering Wget - Lifehacker:
Good review of practical uses for wget…
Keywords: tools/wget, workflow, pkm
- Dan Bricklin / Ward Cunnigham Interview Podcast:
Dan Bricklin interviews the creator of wiki
Keywords: Wiki, DanBricklin, WardCunningham, podcast
- The Elements of Agile Style:Keywords: agile/methods
Technorati Tags Agile, DanBricklin, GNU, iTunes, PKM, podcast, research, Tools, WardCunnnigham, wget, wiki, workflow, XML, XSL
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-02-08
- London Pedestrian Routemap:
The first aim of the London Pedestrian Routemap is to encourage walking in London. It does this by providing a simple, memorable picture of key walking routes in the Capital. At present there is no such map. The Routemap shows how key places connect by st
Keywords: London, Maps
- How to extract paragraphs from a Word document based on styles:
Keywords: MS_Office, Scripting
- In The Time Of “Me-First”: Stikkit:
Stowe Boyd uses Stikkit as an example of an approach to permissions on social tools, where the permissions start with a user, and are erlated to an item of information, not a group or workspace.
Keywords: Collaboration, Social_Software, DataCentredSecurity, Stikkit
- How to Post to Two Separate Del.icio.us Accounts Easily:
Keywords: del.icio.us, Personal_Productivity, PKM, Blogging
- Stikkit: Magic words, functional emails, and a handy cheat sheet:
Merlin Mann @ 43 folders on Stikkit - a new Web2.0, social notes and organising thingy
Keywords: GTD, WEB_2.0, Social_Software, Stikkit
- JNC, Barton-Wright, Self Defence with a cane part 1:
From Pearson’s Magazine, 11 (January 1901), 35-44
Keywords: MartialArts, History
Technorati Tags blogging, Collaboration, del.icio.us, History, London, maps, martial-arts, PKM, Productivity, Scripting, Stikkit
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-12-19
- FCKeditor:
Lightweight HTML text editor
Keywords: Ajax, Development, Java, Plugins, Webmaster
- Introduction to COM Interop:
MSDN January 2007
Keywords: Development, COM, MSDN, DotNet
- Debug Leaky Apps: Identify And Prevent Memory Leaks In Managed Code:
MSDN January 2007
Keywords: Development/Debugging, DotNet, MSDN
- History of Flanders:
Keywords: Places, Flanders, Belgium, France
- Tracking 404 Pages with Google Analytics:
Using Google Analytics to diagnose website faults
Keywords: Webmaster, Tools
- New beta release of Compendium:
1.5.2
Keywords: ConceptMapping, PKM, Compendium
- OpenOffice 2.0: Master page hacks make better spreadsheets:
Keywords: OpenOffice/HowTo
- Combining OpenOffice.org text documents using master files:
Keywords: OpenOffice/HowTo
- Getting an HTML Table Into a Spreadsheet in OpenOffice Calc:
Keywords: OpenOffice/HowTo
- Visio template for UML2.0:
Pavel Hruby’s templates
Keywords: Visio, UML
Technorati Tags ajax, COM, Development, dotnet, Flanders, History, java, MSDN, OpenOffice, PKM, plugins, UML, Visio, webmaster
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-13
Technorati Tags KM, Linux, PKM, Social_Software
Via Earl Mardle I’ve found a new tool to add to my personal knowledge management toolkit: Awasu
Although the core of the product is an aggregator, it’s a lot more than that as it offers a number of ways of inter-acting with the flow of information through the tool, both manually and in various automated ways. It also offers the facility to add “channel hooks” - plugins which carry out specific actions on selected channels.
Having installed the product, I must admit the first learning hurdle was to get used to a thick-client aggregator rather than my normal approach with Bloglines.
The next challenge was finding an easy way to blog using the tool. Although Earl recommends a workflow using Qumana, I’m not sure that’s the right one for me. I think that reticence is a little about Qumana: I’ve tried the tool before, in its earlier days and didn’t stick with it, so maybe I am transferring that to the latest version. Also, Earl’s proposed method involves using the Workpads and Reports in Awasu - functionality that I have played with, but not yet got to grips with fully. There have been a couple of funnies which might be bugs or might be configuration problems.
I shall keep experimenting with different methods of using the tool and integrating it into my work, and may well come back to the approach earl suggests. In the interim I have taken advantage of the easily-configurable User Tools menu in Awasu to call up the normal Wordpress posting page for this blog within the Awasu main window, pre-populated with key content from the source page.
Technorati Tags aggregators, Awasu, blogging, Knowledge_Management, PKM, Productivity, Qumana
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