{"id":521,"date":"2009-02-16T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/16\/trying-to-get-things-done\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:35:03","slug":"trying-to-get-things-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/16\/trying-to-get-things-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying To Get Things Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/gtd.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>I've <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/tag\/gtd\/\">struggled a long time<\/a> with trying to come up with the perfect solution for tracking my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TODO\">Things To Do<\/a>.  For the last several months I've tried to use a physical notepad and small pen in my back pocket, but that's literally turning into a pain in the ass.  Here are my requirements for a digital system:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>View and edit from any computer connected to the web in a password-protected fashion<\/li>\n<li>View and edit locally from my personal computer when offline<\/li>\n<li>View and edit from my mobile<\/li>\n<li>Automatically sync to one central list<\/li>\n<li>Private with occasional times when I might want to share<\/li>\n<li>Ability to arbitrarily categorize, sort, filter<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That last requirement really kills any plain-text solution without some other higher-level tool\/markup.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have an Android phone with a WebKit browser, requirement #3 becomes easier to fulfill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/\">Google Docs<\/a> actually comes the closest to meeting all the above requirements were it not for one important thing:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; font-weight:bold\"><em>Google Docs does not allow you to <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/offlinehelp?hl=en_US\">edit spreadsheets offline<\/a>!<\/em><\/div>\n<p>I'm sure the Google engineers are working hard on this important feature, but describing the existing application as 'available offline' is kind of stretching it at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve struggled a long time with trying to come up with the perfect solution for tracking my Things To Do. For the last several months I&#8217;ve tried to use a physical notepad and small pen in my back pocket, but that&#8217;s literally turning into a pain in the ass. Here are my requirements for a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6,11],"tags":[191,93,147],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-life","category-technology","tag-google","tag-gtd","tag-todo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}