Feb 03
I just finished adding extra functionality to my ongoing project called the Ultimate Getting Things Done Index.
With one glance at the index page you can now quickly see which GTD blogs (or at least the GTD items on each blog) are either almost dead, merely existing, alive, or even sparkling with new items every day!
GTD blog items are color coded as follows:
- red, bold: published less than 1 day ago;
- black, bold: published less than 3 days ago;
- black (normal): published less than 2 weeks ago;
- light grey: published more than 2 weeks ago.
Any questions or suggestions about the GTD Index may be sent to gtdindex [at] marvelz [dot] com. Maybe you would like to see your GTD blog (feed) added to it (use the form at the bottom of the GTD index page)? Maybe you have a brilliant idea about new functionality for the index?
Let me know if you do, so we may all benefit from it!
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Great work on the index!
I’ve been checking it out and have also seen it popping up on a few other GTD blogs. It’s gonna be a great resource.
Thanks Bill! Just like other material we publish on our blogs concerning GTD, the index apparently helps myself and others a little bit to stay organized and up-to-date in an effective way. That’s great!
I like the index and the idea of indication the state of activities on the individual blogs. The red color though makes it difficult to read the headlines, it distracts the reader’s focus, at least as far as I’m concerned.
What do you think about the blogs that published less than 1 day ago printed in a slightly increased font size?
Thanks for the good work!
Dennis @ A Pile of Coins
@Dennis
How about if I make them a little bit less red? But still red enough to catch your eye and direct it towards the most recent blog items (that’s the whole point of using a different color in the first place). Let me know if this is better/easier on your eyes…
Thanks for your interest!
2 New GTD Resources on the Web…
Also, the Getting Things Done blog at gtd.marvelz.com/blog has just created The Ultimate Getting Things Done Web Index. You can see how fresh the GTD posts are and what people are writing about. All on one page. And Juggling Sheep is on there. How cool is that?…
Much better now!
I see that the blogs are sorted alphabetically. That is fair, but it also makes us to look at blog that haven’t posted anything in 2 weeks first.
My suggestion is to put blogs that post the most at the top and so on. This way people do not have to scroll since the bottom doesn’t actualize too often.
@mond
I have toyed with the idea of letting “active” blogs automatically float to the top of the page. Maybe one day (yes, it’s a someday/maybe item!
) I will find the time to implement such a feature.
On the other hand, I find it useful to locate a certain blog on the page, knowing it will be at the same location on the page every day.
I use the “Top 50″ most recent blog postings in the sidebar of the GTD index to catch up with the most recent GTD news.
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