This page is part of a bigger context called Markus's Scheduling and self-management System. Following pages are considered being part of this context:

• GTD (Getting Things Done)
• The Schedule of Markus Gattol (current page) which links to
  • The index of Markus's to-the-net-published schedule data
• The PIM (Personal Information Manager) system existing of
  • GNU Emacs and some add-on software which is
  • planner-mode and
  • org-mode

    

Explicit information on my GNU Emacs based PIM (Personal Information Manager) system i.e. planner-mode and org-mode is provided onto another page of this website. This page really is merely part of the to-the-net-published data that I manage with my PIM system i.e. planner-mode respectively org-mode.

CAUTION: If the reader clicks the link below, he will arrive on an index page for all my schedule pages. However, until now I simply lacked the time to finish the schedule part i.e. for example just note the partially ugly formatting (i.e. graphics for the laymen). However, the functional part (which is the important one) is done although I am not entirely satisfied with the manoeuvring possibilities yet (it should be simple++ to move around inside my schedule data even when published as XHTML to the net... For my visitors, I will make that a piece of cake as well so that it finally feels almost the same as if one would browse the PIM data from inside Emacs itself). I am going to fix the cosmetics as soon as possible...

If you forget about the cosmetics, the data is correct, up-to-date and just ready for the reader to be informed. Please god, make it happen my days have 36 hours from now on so I can continue work on the schedule part of my platform ;-]

The Schedule

My Schedule is the result of sticking to the GTD (Getting Things Done) principle. Second to that, I use GNU Emacs and some additional software to actually carry out the work of planning my schedule. So, there are three important parts into this which finally make up what can be seen on the schedule part of this website:

• The fact that I do things (plan/organize my life) based on the GTD (Getting Things Done) principle.
• The toolset (GNU Emacs and add-on software to it) that I use to implement the principle of GTD. There are other toolsets other than the one I use which essentially allow one to do the same things as I do with GNU Emacs and its add-ons. Those toolsets are commonly known as PIM (Personal Information Manager) systems. Many PIM systems can be used to implement the GTD principle i.e. GTD is not specific to any toolset.
• The to-the-net published and always up-to-date schedule data publicly available here on my website so others (colleagues, family, etc.) can take a look at it an be informed without the need to query me for information.

Getting Things Done

At very first, before starting to take notes and writing down things-to-do (tasks), one needs to have an idea/concept of how he is going to do this. It is important to understand that GTD, even that it is a common principle, needs to become an individual approach how to handle and organize a persons life in all aspects (family, work, leisure, hobby, etc.).

The GTD page carries enough information to get a notion about the GTD (Getting Things Done) principle plus shows how one might derive his personalized GTD style in order to manage is life efficiently and pretty much effortless once the system is in place.

How to read the Schedule

I have a central point on this website/platform that not just explains how to read/use the schedule part but also the other two parts of my website.

Markus's Schedule

I use my PIM (Personal Information Manager) system not just to actually manage all my schedule data but also to create and manage the schedule part of this website. The data within the PIM gets published to the net where anybody (my mentors, other project members, colleagues at work, family, etc.) can take a look at my always-up-to-date schedule. However, I do have the possibility to declare some of my PIM information as private so it gets not published while I make the rest publicly available.