WikidPad: Life Organizer

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Russ is still on his quest to become more productive. More power to him.

Talking about personal productivity, I've been using WikidPad lately to better organize my life. The wiki approach seems to work well as far as keeping track of things like to-do lists, stickies, urls, contacts, etc.

Over the years, I've tried many organizer-type programs. They never seem to work the way I want them to. In the end I always revert to using simple things, like notebooks and text files.

WikidPad does nothing more than provide simple hierarchies and relationships between various text files. I'm in total control.

It is so nice to finally have a single location where I can store pretty much anything I want, the way I want it to.

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N.S Sridharan

May 27, 2006

I am also using WikidPad. Please explore the fact that WP offers non-hierarchical sets of wiki pages (called WikiWords).

Here is how it goes.

I use the example of how manage contacts. This also applies to any other information such as book marks, software downloads, books purhcased and whatever.
Individual contact pages like JohnDaly, RobertSmith, NavinJain with arbitrary contact information, names of children, last phone conversation etc.
Group pages like SanDiegoContacts with list of WikiWords like RobertSmith, NavinJain - which when clicked upon lead to the individual pages
Time oriented pages like AprilTripContacts - here along with the RobertSmith link, I also keep information like he said he would be back from his Boston Trip on Apr 24th.
MyContacts "master page" has AprilTrip, SanDiegoContacts etc.
Similarly I can create JavaProgrammers, CeramicArtists or any view upon the "ocean" of contacts below. The RobertSmith referred from anywhere is to a single object which is the RobertSmith wikiword.

I think this is not "tree like" hierarchy, but a web like set of pages.