Tricks with Tracks
After getting my Nokia 770 I started experimenting with my task and project management a bit. Now that I had a mobile device that was conversational (not fluent) with web2.0 applications, it broadened my horizon considerably.
Tracks lets you view your projects and nextactions in the form of feeds as well as live on the webserver. You can get an iCal feed (with vtask information of course) and an RSS feed (which is very nice and easily subscribed to on the 770’s desktop RSS reader!) and a raw text feed.
So that raw text feed is nice for making a big list of all the stuff you’re working on.
It is also wicked to have your tasks populate on your desktop!
My desktop in the home office is dual-headed and I put all of my tasks on the left monitor and my “due tasks” on the right. I use geektool and just tell it to execute “curl [url]” every 15 minutes. I’m able to use my Exposé corners to vanish everything and only show my desktop with the flick of my wrist, making my nextactions instantly visible.
Tracks is coming along well. There is a lot of development going on with it, though I don’t know when my request to have a “Hipster PDA Composer” will be implemented. I’ve been experimenting with keeping all of my projects and materials in Tracks, and using Tracks with my Shirt Pocket Briefcase as a capture device.
So far so good. The perpetual hacking continues.