Working with WikiPack - lists of links

I was just about to go about my daily tasks, in this case processing an email, when I realised it might be of interest to anyone wondering how to integrate WikiPack into their productivity workflow.

As a general rule, no - as a strict rule, I don’t use my email inbox as a todo list, but rather process & then archive or delete them. If they can be acted on immediately, I do so, otherwise I’ll add an item to my todo list. The problem though is the disconnect between the contents of the email, and the todo item related to it.

One way I work around this, is by creating “throw-away” wiki pages for longer todo items. In this case, the email was related to school, so I edited my School page and added a wiki link like:

**[[School-2012-05-31|2012-05-31]]** - received an email with a list of schools to checkout

Hint: Use TextExpander to insert timestamps quickly

I then save my School page, and click the link to create a new page to receive the contents of the email. This way, when I hook it into my other productivity apps, it’s interlinked to my other School related pages. I love using wikis like that.

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Integrating WikiPack with other apps

Having a dedicated wiki page to todo list items is really useful, but the possibilities are endless. Now that I have a wiki page, I can click through the links, find each school’s phone number, and add it to my page. If I need to find one of those numbers later, I can just load up my School page and look it up really quickly.

I’ve previously demonstrated how to hook WikiPack into AddressBook to use it as an ad-hoc CRM, but each page’s URL can be used in pretty much any app that will render it as a clickable link.

Markdown editor features

In the video I demonstrate a couple of handy features of WikiPack’s Markdown editor:

• Turning a block of text into a bulleted list
  • Select a block, hit the list button
• Turning text into links by pasting a URL
  • Select the text, paste in the URL

So now I have my wiki page, and made a video in the process. How productive! Wait, I’d better get back to work… where’s the phone?

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