I used to keep my project ‘to do’ list in the body of an email in my mailbox (FirstClass works strangely such that outgoing email sits in alongside incoming … don’t ask) – I have my email open all the time and it was a fairly convenient place to keep it.<\/p>\n
But it was always full of things which weren’t exactly ‘to do’ – some were things to think about, or read, or do later, or maybe do (I haven’t read the ubiquitous “Getting Things Done”, but I do read some of the offshoot blogs and stuff, so I know this is one of the central concepts of the book). Also, I was starting to lose track of things I’d read and bookmarked or saved in a folder somewhere on my laptop.<\/p>\n
So, I read a post somewhere about this local wiki-type program (Voodoopad<\/a>, for the Mac, if you’re interested) and decided to try it out. It’s quickly superseded not only my project to do list, but also my browser bookmarks, and a plethora of separate word files which used to sit, unconnected to each other or anything else, in folders on the hard drive. I also use it to do things I haven’t done before, and make explicit information which was only in my head – really important, I think, since it’s mainly me working on my project and if I get hit by a bus… well, you know.<\/p>\n It’s evolved, and I now use it as a convenient central place to link to a bunch of important project files and URLs. I also have the following categories linked from my main page:<\/p>\n This Week (my new to do list)<\/p>\n Diary (a record of all my project activities – will be fantastic come report-writing time)<\/p>\n events (forthcoming and recent, with links to presentations I’ve given, venue and programme details, travel info, etc.)<\/p>\n 3 categories of contacts, with a page for each person\/organisation<\/p>\n programmes (information about the programmes I’m working with to develop e-portfolios)<\/p>\n training OSPI (info about the e-portfolio tool the University is developing, training materials, etc)<\/p>\n to read (getting enormous – need to subdivide, i guess. or actually read some of the stuff. links to documents on my computer and on the web, with notes about what they are if needed)<\/p>\n links to check out (as above, but for sites rather than articles\/papers etc)<\/p>\n ideas (things I’m thinking about or want to explore further)<\/p>\n resources (key resources for the project – some things get moved here from the ‘to read’ category)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I used to keep my project ‘to do’ list in the body of an email in my mailbox (FirstClass works strangely such that outgoing email sits in alongside incoming … don’t ask) – I have my email open all the time and it was a fairly convenient place to keep it. But it was always … Continue reading local wiki for project management<\/span>
\nprofessional development (nothing in either of these categories yet -maybe they need to go. Or maybe I’m not doing enough PD!)<\/p>\n