Back in my linux era, I was a one liner hunter. A one liner is a shell command that makes your life pretty much easier, by chaining several commands, the output of one being the input for the next one. Using one liners is a very good way to boost your productivity and also learn a lot of stuff. Here’s a “very” simple one liner that I often used as a programmer to see how many lines, words, and characters a script may have.

cat file.php | wc > word_counts.txt


Basically, all that it does it’s sending the file “file.php” via the “cat” command to the shell command “wc” – which means “word count” – and then redirect the output to a file called word_counts.txt. Which will have, tab separated, the number of lines, words, and characters in the file “file.php”. Simple. And effective.

But now I don’t do shell so often, but my need for one liners is still there, hidden, and looking for a new way to escape. And here it is, it seems I just found not a one liner, but a one pager. It’s a new GTD Index, that puts together blog feeds, application links, and social sites blurbs, all related to GTD. A one pager is a niche index, related to a specific domain, and it just gives you an excerpt of what’s going on in the room. Quick, clean, lean and mean…

I must admit that I have a use for this. I do have my Vienna feed reader, my collection of links and my social sites bookmarks or diggs, or whatever. But having all of this into one page, can be very easy to use. I won’t give up my feed reader, though, nor my link hunting habit, but I will surely check from time to time the Ultimate Getting Things Done Index, as the author of the page named his one pager.

And because things are just going to get better, there is a sister site to this project, called The Ultimate Personal Development Index, which uses the same approach.

Must also thank to the auhor for the inclusion of my feeds in this one pagers, it’s really nice to see that we can relate and connect to each other. Good luck with that!

[tags]GTD, feeds, index, one liner[/tags]