Comments on: Getting Things Done with CouchDB, part 1: how did I get here? http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475 Present Perfect Tue, 21 May 2013 03:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Dan http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475&cpage=1#comment-145548 Dan Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:26:01 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475#comment-145548 I would recommend checking out Gtdagenda.com for an online task & project manager. You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, and a calendar. Syncs with Evernote, and also comes with mobile-web version, and Android and iPhone apps. I would recommend checking out Gtdagenda.com for an online task & project manager.

You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, and a calendar.
Syncs with Evernote, and also comes with mobile-web version, and Android and iPhone apps.

]]> By: Dieter http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475&cpage=1#comment-145226 Dieter Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:05:50 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475#comment-145226 to avoid conflicts, you can: * use a custom git merge driver (my favorite option) * even the default union merge driver should work too, unless you explicitly write auto-increment integer id's to your entries (which would cause duplicate id's) but you can fairly easily avoid this. * write different tasks in different files. to avoid conflicts, you can:
* use a custom git merge driver (my favorite option)
* even the default union merge driver should work too, unless you explicitly write auto-increment integer id’s to your entries (which would cause duplicate id’s) but you can fairly easily avoid this.
* write different tasks in different files.

]]> By: Guyou http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475&cpage=1#comment-145073 Guyou Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:49:05 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475#comment-145073 Really insteresting. Any "screenshots" somewhere? Something I did not understand: why developping a client-server application? Why not embbeding the whole application in CouchDB? I played with CouchDB and did some "Hello world" application. It was funny to create a whole JavaScript application embedded in the database. I imagined something like a cross between CouchDB and GTDTiddlyWiki: a quite simple but still rich web application but run by a CouchDB application (and not inside a browser). Really insteresting. Any “screenshots” somewhere?

Something I did not understand: why developping a client-server application? Why not embbeding the whole application in CouchDB?
I played with CouchDB and did some “Hello world” application. It was funny to create a whole JavaScript application embedded in the database.

I imagined something like a cross between CouchDB and GTDTiddlyWiki: a quite simple but still rich web application but run by a CouchDB application (and not inside a browser).

]]> By: Thomas http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475&cpage=1#comment-144774 Thomas Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:50:52 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475#comment-144774 Yes, I have, but I think it would still be suboptimal. I don't know how Dropbox manages conflicts, but I assume it would end up letting you retrieve conflicting versions from the web interface, so that wouldn't be ideal if all you did was simply add two different tasks on two different machines. CouchDB wouldn't even see that as a conflict, since they are different documents in a database, as opposed to two new lines in one data file. CouchDB, when it does have conflicts, picks the same winner everywhere, and then makes it easy to look at conflicts, so it would be possible to resolve them programatically. git would have been an option too, but I never liked the model I had going with yagtd and subversion where you need to remember to commit; in git you would have to commit and push. Granted, this could be scripted. conflicts in text files would still have to be resolved by hand, and typically the problem is as I said adding tasks on different machines. git would leave this as a conflict to be resolved manually because of the way diff and patch work. CouchDB just has a much more natural model on which to base conflict resolution. Yes, I have, but I think it would still be suboptimal. I don’t know how Dropbox manages conflicts, but I assume it would end up letting you retrieve conflicting versions from the web interface, so that wouldn’t be ideal if all you did was simply add two different tasks on two different machines. CouchDB wouldn’t even see that as a conflict, since they are different documents in a database, as opposed to two new lines in one data file. CouchDB, when it does have conflicts, picks the same winner everywhere, and then makes it easy to look at conflicts, so it would be possible to resolve them programatically.

git would have been an option too, but I never liked the model I had going with yagtd and subversion where you need to remember to commit; in git you would have to commit and push. Granted, this could be scripted. conflicts in text files would still have to be resolved by hand, and typically the problem is as I said adding tasks on different machines. git would leave this as a conflict to be resolved manually because of the way diff and patch work.

CouchDB just has a much more natural model on which to base conflict resolution.

]]> By: Dieter http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475&cpage=1#comment-144763 Dieter Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:22:54 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475#comment-144763 have you considered "replicating" plaintext files by means of something like dropbox or git? (there should be a way to use git and not have merge conflicts) have you considered “replicating” plaintext files by means of something like dropbox or git? (there should be a way to use git and not have merge conflicts)

]]> By: pt http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475&cpage=1#comment-144734 pt Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:36:23 +0000 http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=1475#comment-144734 is it possible to search in GTG? is it possible to search in GTG?

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