A new approach to a pensieve
The two components of GTD, in a Harry Potter sort of way, are a Rememberall and a Pensieve. The Rememberall is a task manager, and the Pensieve is where non-actionable data are kept and retrieved.
As I’ve explained in other posts, I modified the TODO bundle in TextMate to make the GTD bundle, which is my Rememberall. I’m still looking for a Pensieve. I’ve tried DevonThink Pro (DTP) for about a month, but it really seems too cumbersome for me. One of the problems for me is that you can link folders (that part is cool) but you must manually synch the folder – I’d really like to see it automatically synch. The other issue for me is that DTP indexes almost every file. I still need to use another app to find everything.
So, my new Pensieve is the Finder (using Houdaspot as the search engine). Also, I am using Mori to collect random thoughts and web clippings. What makes this setup special is that Mori is a CoreData application, so Spotlight (and therefore Houdaspot) indexes its entries. What this all means is that Houdaspot is my one-stop-shop for all my data! I’ll write more after I’ve tried it for a while.
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