Sadly, I have not found any use of what I have been bookmarking for that while. I stopped roughly one month ago… The idea of a ‘personal wiki’ sounds really interesting. If I had a portable version of TiddlyWiki (link to my blog!) (one I could use in my iPod Touch!!) would be awesome. I’ll have to check again if there is some way to use TDW portably… If works wonders as a personal wiki, and maybe it is the best place to put my “life bookmarks”. Give it a try: TiddlyWiki (link to its homepage).

Thanks for your long reply! I always find amazing that some bloggers put so much care in writing answers to his blogs comments.

Cheers,

Ruben

I enjoy the term ‘life bookmarking’. I tried something similar once, but after a while, I couldn’t see the point of it: what would I do with all that information? Maybe you can finally answer my question…

Anyway, I believe my problem was related to the fact that the information was stored in a strictly chronological manner. If I could add “tags” to each entry, then I probably would continue using the tool, as I would be able to do more useful queries — such as looking for everything that I learned about a particular subject.

Any thoughts?

(Creating a personal wiki with tagging capabilities has been on my someday/maybe projects list for quite a while now…)

I may pick your technique (which I find very interesting, more so with the relation with GTD… I also had problems with long term reviews) and try to join it with my idea. Maybe something better than both comes out! (Or probably I’ll just find out that mine was still way too much writing).

Ruben

One idea is to print a list of topics and tick them in order — as you write about each one — until it gets to the end. Then you just start over ticking them again from the beginning (or printing a new copy of the list).

I don’t recommend you have too many topics, though. You need to keep a balance between depth and width — otherwise you’ll be spreading yourself too thin. 30 topics is already a considerable large number of topics in my opinion.

Hope this helps!

Second, after reading the article, I was wondering what would do if I want to add a new topic. Do I add or subtract only after finishing with the list? What if it goes over the 30/31 mark? Or do I add while I am finishing the list?

Thanks again.

You’re absolutely right: the technique will help you to not drop the ball on the areas you’re not paying much attention to — this is a situation I’ve been before and can vouch that the technique handles these cases very well.

Tom, thanks for sharing the link to the article on becoming more time conscious, and also thanks for including Litemind in the Best of Effectiveness Blogs list.