Yesterday I touched on using Tinderbox as it's become a core part of my Getting Things Done workflow. In particular, I became enamored with the Map View yesterday as I had to plan out a tricky little project. While working in the map view, where I was able to think things out spatially instead of hierarchically, the items I created were still regular Tinderbox items and were wired into my GTD agents. When I went to work on this project today, I was back in hierarchical mode, checking things off as I got them done.
Ryan Holcomb's GTD template uses color to distinguish items as they move through the flow, with these colors being set automatically by the Tinderbox agents - yellow for 'on hold', orange for 'complete', bright green for 'due today', red for 'overdue' (for items marked with a due date). A benefit of this is how it appears in the map view. Even when items are children of items, they show up in a kindof thumbnail view at the current level. Thus today, checking in on the map view of my project yielded this:
This shows me that I still have one item to do for the 'Sharing View' (in the box on the right), and one item on hold in the other box. Very nice.
Posted by Jeff Shell at
11:03 PM
