META

This file holds the rules for this little thing I'm doing.

Things I want

• Financial Independence
• Children

Items on January 1 overlap with things that happen 1 time per year. Items on the 1st of a month overlap with things that happen 1 time per month. Items on Sunday overlap with things that happen 1 time per week.

Monthly

1. 1hr 30mins - get a massage
2. go to at least 1 meetup or community event

every 6 months

1. volunteer for a nonprofit cause for at least 4 hours

Yearly

1. Really assess where we are in terms of our life goals: as a family, individually holistically, creatively, financially.

Ongoing

Reminders for I conventions I declare for myself

• use Nag

• use Gist

• update the Intranet at work

Notes on Process

Gmail

Items can come in through GMail with status=unread. Once received in Gmail, an item is updated to status=read. The item can be deleted, or marked with a yellow star, red bang, green checkmark, or follow up symbol.

Items with a yellow star are for reference.

Items with a red bang are to be followed up on each week #TODO (Sunday).

Items with a green checkmark are indicated to be complete and require no further action.

Items with a follow up symbol indicate an email was sent and I am awaiting a response. Follow ups should be followed up on each week #TODO (Sunday).

Jira

Work items are managed in Atlassian Jira and Salesforce.

Google Docs

I use Google Docs to manage all sorts of things: Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, and Presentations.I don't really have a clear strategy for what goes in here and what doesn't. I find Google Docs very useful for collaborative editing and documents that don't reqire much formatting.

Github & Bitbucket

I use Github and Bitbucket to store my git code repositories. Almost all my repos are currently Rails projects in very elementary stages. I'd estimate I have 2 dozen projects outstanding as of Feb 17, 2013.

Dropbox

I use Dropbox to store just about all my files. Dropbox is a web service that sync files across devices. I have Dropbox synced to my Macbook Air laptop, Galaxy Nexus phone, and Macbook Pro work laptop.

I use Dropbox to store my development files, personal files, photos, and digital media. Almost all my important things are stored in Dropbox.

TODO ensure all important files are in Dropbox.

TODO phase out old forms of storage (cd's, dvd's, and hard drives)

Google Calendar

I use Google Calendar to track date-specific events. I use multiple calendars: Personal, Andria & I, and Granicus work calendar. I also have a Daily calendar to outline habits, but I haven't adhered to it very well.

Trello

I use Trello to track cards in a Kanban style board. I use Kanban primarily from a PC, but also use it as an app on my phone.

I have multiple boards: Personal, Granicus, Someday Maybe. I do pretty well to keep them maintained, but haven't done as well I could have.

Nag

Nag is a microblogging platform I built for myself using Rails on my 31st birthday. I try to use it everyday to track my day in small increments. I was inspired by Pomodoro and use Nag to prompt me to stay on track with my life. So far, I've used Nag primarily to record things as they've come up. My goal is to have Nag help me prioritize and maximize my productivity.

Mint.com

Andria and I use Mint.com to track our personal finances.

WEBSITES ARE FOR

afomi - design, ideas, sketches, notes ryanwold.net - personal?

HABITS

daily.md

This is an active file. Keep all daily activity in notes.md. Notes should reflect work that I am doing and have done recently.

possible.md

A list of possible to-dos

reference.md

non-code snippets

scribble.md

a place to keep temporary, ephemeral thoughts

/blogposts/*

a place to keep things that really deserve their own treatment. possibly ending up published online at Posterous.com

Archives - YYYY/MM.md

After each month, pull out the prior months information, and file it into its year/month.md (ie: 2012/11.md). Ensure all incomplete items are deleted or pulled forward from those files so the logs reflect work completed. These are inactive files.

LEGEND

• [ ] TODO
• ( ) spontaneous TODO
• [x] completed TODO
• (x) completed spontaneous TODO
• ? Question
• * Idea, or list item
• < Awaiting From somebody