Oogiem
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unstuffed;62581 said:[What I'd suggest is that you use something that uses tags, instead of a traditional hierarchical database structure.....
Our local people here used to have 6 distinct seasons, whereas up in Darwin they have 3*, so you don't have to stick to the conventional 4.
If you're not always online, there are other similar options such as wikis (although I don't know as much about them as I should). The important factor is the tags: once you throw all your NAs into basic lists grouped by season or rain or summat, then tag to your heart's content.
I must say that this is one of the most interesting questions I've ever seen on this forum. Thanks, Oogiem.
Tags or free form database for sure. Hierarchical would get too hard to manage. There used to be a really nice small database program on the original 128k Mac that I loved where you could tag everything with an infinite number of tags. It's long since died. I can't even remember the name but I sure remember when I had hundreds of documents in it. They've all migrated to my Palm now but I'm running out of categories and memory in PalmOS
I am not always on-line though so it's going to take some effort to get that to be mobile.
Seasons are also good, been working on a paper based trial run of seasonal stuff. Here there's winter, mud season, lambalanch, hunting season and so on ;-) Well actually more seriously there are some basic seasonal parameters I can work with.
Glad you enjoyed the question. I'm trying to extend GTD to areas where it's not obvious that it can be done but I see huge benefits in even the parts that I have been able to implement.