Recent reading has included “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning” by Andy Hunt, from @progprog. Most interestingly, it covers almost exclusively topics that I have absorbed over the last 30 years or so – meditation, context switching, personality types, left\/right brain thinking, mind maps, GTD, and so on. I didn’t realise that I knew so much! I can’t check the history easily (Amazon and Wikipedia don’t show copyright dates), but I found mind maps in the early 70s. The other most interesting fact is that the terminology Andy uses is almost entirely different from that I learned (apart from Mind Maps). So I had experienced zazen, some different personality type systems, Time Manager, and some others.<\/p>\n
One of the ideas I had come across independently was the use of a personal wiki – I was using TiddlyWiki<\/a> a few years ago (2006), mainly as a book reviewing tool, then gradually stopped using it. So this was my trigger to check if it still existed, and where it had gone to in the intervening years.<\/p>\n The good news is that TiddyWiki still exists, and seems to have gone from strength to strength. Back then, it was an implementation of a classic Wiki, all in html and Javascript in a single file. The current version has adopted an ingenious plug-in structure with its own ecosystem. There is also a GTD based modified TiddlyWiki, d3<\/a>. Incidentally, I used to use Jayson Adams Notebook on NeXT, which approaches very close to being an older implementation of a visual\/clippings based wiki – and seems to have reappeared on MacOS X in recent years, and I just discovered that there’s an iPad version.<\/p>\n