Duct Tape And Turing Machines

After trying several flavors of David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology over the last year, I’ve finally managed to develop a personal organization system that works for me. I’m using 37Signals’ wonderful free Backpack service to keep what amounts to a lightweight spiral-bound notebook full of writing, todo lists, reminders and the like. When it comes to personal organization, my main challenge is coralling all my stuff into a single place where I can deal with it and know that I’ve got the whole picture in front of me. Backpack has proven wonderfully effective in that regard in the month since I’ve started using it.

However, I’m also a long-time del.icio.us user and didn’t want to give up my old habits of squirreling away links there to read later at my leisure. To the end of having all my fish in one barrel, I wrote a Greasemonkey script to pull in my most recent del.icio.us posts and display them in the sidebar of my Backpack home page.

You can get the script here. The first time you visit your Backpack home page after installing the script, it’ll prompt you for your del.icio.us username and the number of links to display- you can later change these values through the Greasemonkey User Script Commands menu. I’m releasing this under the MIT license, so feel free to munge, improve and otherwise frobulate it as you see fit. Enjoy!