I recently started thinking about how I could organize my life. This is a very broad aim on which everyone has a different perspective. In my case, I identified the following “spheres” of interest. In no order of importance these are:
Learn
Do
Socialize
Health & Well-being
Home
Entertainment
Travel
People
Financial & Taxes
I visualize each sphere as an orange and like an orange a sphere consists of sub-parts (slices). There are no airtight spheres and therefore they may be interrelated (like having oranges inside the same basket).
Please note that no work-related spheres are included in the above. That’s a different universe!
My main aim with TiddlyWiki is for it to be a useful instrument to record relevant activity in each sphere or slices of it. Ideally this should be reflected to the greatest possible extent in my organizing my digital life.
For the sake of illustration, let’s say that “Home” includes regular maintenance tasks for which I need to set a reminder. I’ll set one or more reminders as necessary in TiddlyWiki (using the excellent TiddlyTools Time plugins) and keep a record in TiddlyWiki of who the maintenance engineer was, when the maintenance jobs were carried out, contract details etc. I’ll link the tiddler(s) to my contract and other documents stored on my PC.
Thus TiddlyWiki will be my first point of access to most of my data on my PC and I’m optimistic that this method will be useful in organizing my data on my PC. I’m thinking how best to use tags in TiddlyWiki and relate them to directories on my PC, but I’m finding it difficult to see how to actually implement it.
I would welcome any suggestions or ideas you may wish to share about using TiddlyWiki based on your own experience.