Hugo Estrada's House of Wonder

Since December, I have made monthly goals where I list things that I want to learn about, personal projects, and personal habits that I want to do. At some point I will talk about the whole project, but for right now I am going to write about my February goals.

February started well, but I got sick with some nasty cold that lasted about two weeks. This slowed down mainly the projects. As I was getting better, I was able to reach my goals of learning sessions on PIC micro controller tutorials, a refresher python tutorial, work more on a rails tutorial, and learning more about QGIS. Not included in my goals, were tutorials that I finished on log4Net, Redis and Mongo. I also got a lot of math reviewing done. I found one of the best books on statistics that I have found, and I have been reviewing the subject.

I also enhanced a personal Pomodoro application that I made. It now gives me a sound and visual cue that time has ran out.

So even though I felt that the month was wasted, I actually was able to learn a lot, so I consider the month a success, especially taking into account the long-term illness.

Normally for technical work I just use redmine to keep track of working tasks, and I use mGSD for administrative stuff or for writing agenda outlines or reminders to send emails. And that works most of the time.

Now I am currently having to manage a big amount of issues because there were changes in the working environment recently. So now I find that I have too many issues to handle on redmine. What to do?

Ah, mGSD (the app formerly known as MonkeyGTD) to the rescue.

I have copied the titles of the issues into my mGSD copy. mGSD is a Getting Things Done (Registered Trademark) app that I have been using for about 3 years now. It is based on tiddly wiki, a client-side javascript powered wiki. It is really good. It fits into GTD methodology very well.

So now instead of having to look and keep track of several projects on redmine, I can see everything that I need to do at a glance on my mGSD.