Hooah, I’ve nearly completed my little organizational pattern hehe.
~/stuff -> dumping ground for work load management
-------/bin -> binaries to help out (links to ~/sh)
------------/cgrep -> comma grepper for contacts file
------------/reminded -> reminder notifications daemon
-------/bookmarks -> links to pages I need to read
-------/contacts -> CSV file with why,method,id of people I need to contact
-------/delegates -> list of things I pawned off on other people (and need to follow up with)
-------/open-loops -> list of things I need to do; if it is here, it is a commitment
-------/reminders -> directory full of reminders
-----------------/YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM -> send me this files contents on YYYY-MM-DD at HH:MM UTC
-------/hope-chest -> things I wish I had time for; deal with in future
-------/school -> reserved for future need
-------/projects -> tmp files for various projects.
On Sunday (2008-12-07), I started writing cgrep in Perl, and setting up the contacts & open-loops files. Finished the final touches yesterday, and finished reminded today (Aside from tweaks needed for WinXP; adjust $ENV vars). Not to bad, considering how little coding time I’ve had lately :
Terry@dixie$ ~/stuff/bin/cgrep -h
/usr/home/Terry/stuff/bin/cgrep -- Grep for the contacts CSV file
Usage:
cgrep [IWhimvw] [-f file | --file file] regex [file ...]
Options:
-I, --id grep the 'id' column
-W, --why grep the "why" column
-V, --verbose display line for AWK
-h, --help print usage help info
-i, --ignore-case ignore case distinctions
-m, --method grep the "method" column
--man read manual page
-v, --invert-match select non-matching items
-w, --who grep the "who" column
Terry@dixie$ ~/stuff/bin/reminded -h
/usr/home/Terry/stuff/bin/reminded -- reminder notifications daemon
Usage:
reminded [-t seconds] [-n|-m addr] [-p program] [-d directory]
Options:
-D, --debug Debugging output
-d, --directory Directory to search
-m, --mail=address Remind by Mail to address
-h, --help print usage help info
-n, --notify Remind by notification popup
--man read manual page
-p, --program=string Execute string as the notifier
-t, --timer=secs Sleep secs between checks
Terry@dixie$
I’ll probably modify ~/init.sh to launch reminded during my sessions; maybe rsync files to Vectra, and run it in mailing mode.
Things in ~/stuff/open-loops are more or less sorted into a queue of tasks; which are to be done in mostly the order listed. Once they are done, they get deleted; and generate or nuke other entries IAW the resulting outcome. So far, it’s actually worked well enough; cgrep, reminded, and the structural are all done ahead of schedule. Now if I could just do something about controlling the amount of time available to work on crap!!! I once tried Personal Information Manager (PIM) software, but usually found the surveyed apps to lack the level of flexibility I need. And to hack it in, would take more time then using a few megs in sticky notes. ssh’ing to Vectra and mucking with a todo file ain’t so hot either, so here we go 🙂 It’s simple, it’s effective (as anything else), and no need to screw around with a big, overwait, memory hogging, overly mouse riddled program, just to manage things -> I can use my shell xD.
It’s amazing, how often I can throw perl at a problem, and see it work lol.
Then again, I can usually read my Perl scripts in six++ months… can’t always say the same for other peoples golf game.