Tip: Offline Tracks Access & Actions on your Desktop

Ryan — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:05:00 -0500

Tracks is great, we all know that (that’s why you’re here, right?) But every once and awhile my internet is down, or I’m just plain offline. However, it’s still good to have access to your action items at your fingertips. Here’s a little tip to get your Tracks actions into a text file on your computer for offline consumption.

As was mentioned in the creating a Track’s today view tip you can get a text feed of your actions by

Go the the feeds page of your GTDTracks
Clicking on the TXT icon next to the list of actions you want to retrieve.

If you copy the URL of the text feed page it will look something like:

http://gtdtracks.com/feed/text/username/longtoken_as92as

The easiest way to get that text file onto your computer is to use a command line tool like wget to download this file every hour onto your computer:

wget http://gtdtracks.com/feed/text/username/longtoken_as92as

And for extra credit, if you’re on Mac OS X, you can use geektool to have the text version of your actions displayed on your desktop with the curl command:

curl http://gtdtracks.com/feed/text/username/longtoken_as92as

And if you’re on windows you can use this tip from lifehacker to do the same thing

"Tip: Offline Tracks Access & Actions on your Desktop" by Alastair McDermott

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:59:00 -0500

Cheers Ryan. I’m using this with Wget, Windows scheduler & Samurize to keep it on the desktop. Much appreciated for the tip :)

GTD Tracks blog: Tip: Offline Tracks Access & Actions on your Desktop

Tip: Offline Tracks Access & Actions on your Desktop

"Tip: Offline Tracks Access & Actions on your Desktop" by Alastair McDermott