Location aware GTD trick
I have my
gtdo to manage the TODOs, and it shows me the list every time I open a terminal (via a 't ls' in my .bashrc). But what to do when my '@work' TODO list grows long and is shown to me on every terminal spawn, even at home?
what I also have is my
network profiles setup. Till today, my office profile was called "office" - which I changed to "work". This makes my profile name the same as my context name ('work' and '@work' - we can manage the @ in the context). Do I need to say more? :)
Every time I do a 'NETSCHEME="work" sudo ifup ath0' and the network comes up, the '/var/run/network/ifstate' contains a line like 'ath0=ath0-home'. Which means, I can get the profile I'm using. Which means, if I name my profiles carefully, I can get the location I'm at. Which then means, if I name my contexts carefully, I can get the relevant context.
Adding this:
LOCATION=`grep -m 1 '-' /var/run/network/ifstate | awk -F '-' '{ print $2 }'`
t ls @$LOCATION
to my .bashrc works like magic.
By the way, I *could* scan for known SSIDs and select a network (and hence a location and a context) automagically, but I don't do that yet - one of the reasons being that I *think* there might be an information leak hidden somewhere. But I haven't thought it through. But I might, and then I might get around to doing it.