A blog is a tool. It should help you to get things done – contrary to the common wisdom that they are distractions.
If Getting Things Done requires getting tasks out of the mind and writing them down, then a blog is a perfect place to record them. No more pesky scraps of paper floating around.
But – and this is the more tenuous thought – does getting things done for you mean they get things done for somebody else? To put it another way, do you really need to put something up on the web for everybody to see?
I wish there was an easy way to have a blog that sits on my desktop, that wasn’t online. It would be a useful tool. You can do it, but from what I could tell, you need to turn your computer into a pretend server that hosts its own blog. Beyond my skills. Computer programmers please?
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I’ve got a friend who runs a personal blog just like that. On the mac he uses mamp software and a self-installed wordpress – they’re both easy to use.
But hang on a minute – isn’t it a bit ironic that you’re using your blog not just to record your thoughts but to ask questions and have a discussion?
I think you should stay online. I’m a fan
Thanks for the vote Dan.
As for the discussion… it’s how many people are involved that is the question.
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