On Thu, 4 May 2000, Rod Welch wrote:
> The OHS tools you have created are excellent and essential for knowledge
> management. Your process of applying time with information management is a big
> part of "intelligence" that generates knowledge. As Doug might say, an added
> nicety is extending the PIM paradigm to POIMS for personal and organizational
> integrated management, which then makes possible the Enterprise Management model
> that moves from solving personal issues to providing "intelligence" for tackling
> world problems. Can we see work product showing the results of your wizardry?
I wish that these tools were actually in existence, but they're mostly on
paper. One of the big reasons for this is UI constraints, something I
briefly mentioned at my April 6 presentation. The first tool I started
building was the bibliography manager, and I naturally tried to whip
together a quick, forms-based UI using Tk. It quickly became apparent
that, even with highly structured data like bibliographic information, a
forms-based UI was not going to be adequate. For notes and summaries, a
forms-based UI is unthinkable. My temporary solution was to write
command-line tools. I plan on experimenting with the PSGML emacs mode,
but I haven't gotten around to that yet. Nevertheless, this experience
emphasizes the need for a good, extensible XML editor as the basis for
the OHS's editing component.
Incidentally, I was much inspired by the journal feature in your DKR
tool, Rod. (Which, of course, Doug had also developed many years
earlier.) For everyday tasks, journals are a fantastic complement to
scheduling. Scheduling reveals your plan, journals reveal the extent to
which you have achieved your plan, an important element of knowledge
accumulation and bootstrapping.
-Eugene
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