Chris Thompson
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org-mode for GTD
1/18/2009
Someone recently put together a very thorough web page describing one possible way of using Emacs "org-mode" for GTD, and I thought I'd pass it along:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd...
Intriguing new task-management software
1/13/2009
One thing that I find helps with OmniFocus is to hide the start date and end date columns. When they're displayed, the whole thing looks too much like a spreadsheet and is hard to process visually. It...
I tried this during the beta period. The user interface is nice, but it's somewhat light on features. One way of looking at it is as a slightly different user interface to Things, since both depend on...
Pimlical
1/8/2009
Looks interesting. Let us know what you think after you try it. I remember DateBk3 being a nice application.
-- Chris
Task management help.
1/5/2009
I agree about The Now Habit. I believe a revised version of that book just came out a couple months ago. There's also a good book by Burka and Yuen. For more serious problems, look into anything C.R. ...
Task management help.
1/5/2009
For me, the key to effective task management is outlining. I find I need to drill down and list each small individual step that it takes to complete a task, otherwise there's a tendency to just stare ...
DevonThink 2.0 beta out
12/22/2008
For those who've been waiting for it, the beta of DevonThink 2.0 is finally out:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/devonthink2.html
Notable changes: files are now stored in the fi...
Netbooks - Hardware CRIMP?
12/10/2008
While we're talking about photo workflow tools, I suggest taking a look at LightZone:
http://www.lightcrafts.com/products/index.html
It's one of my favorite applications of all time... much more intu...
Mindmapping
11/15/2008
Check out this link:
http://freelanceswitch.com/working/managing-multiple-freelance-gigs-with-mind-maps/
It's one of the better examples I've seen. Note that this kind of use would be hard with mind ...
An interesting new version of Together just came out that uses learning/AI classification algorithms for tagging, similar to one of the more popular features of DevonThink. Apparently this is based on...
MindManager 8
11/13/2008
Maybe the Windows version of MM 8 is faster, though they seem to share the same diagramming codebase. MM8 isn't terribly slow, but it's not the most fluid program either when making changes, particula...
MindManager 8
11/12/2008
Slightly OT, but if you're spending a lot of time in Linux, you definitely have to try Emacs org-mode. I've been playing around with it for the last five days and it's extremely impressive. I'll write...
MindManager 8
11/12/2008
I really like the filtering in MindManager 8. Combined with MM's automatic/enforced layout algorithms (so when you filter it preserves the general shape and relationship of nodes that remain, up to th...
search for single repository
11/8/2008
I do work this way, for the most part.
A "view that allows one to see subfolders and their contents indented" is one of the standard OS X file browser views. There isn't any way to control the order ...
A friend of mine tipped me off about Emacs "org-mode" today. I was amazed! (I had taken a look at it years ago and at that time it wasn't anything special, but it's come a very long way.) It's a text-...
There really still is nothing that beats Ecco as a personal project/task/information management application. Pierre's work on IQ is as close as anything comes to Ecco, but the calendar is still rough ...
grabbing info from wikipedia
11/5/2008
Selecting just the main part of a Wikipedia page and capturing it works in Together (and probably most Mac PIMs since they share a common engine):
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/cthomp777/Wi...
Thanks for the heads-up. Looks really interesting.
Back when I was deeply into Ecco, I had the same idea as their current research prototype "Personal Project Planner"... using the outline itself as ...
search for single repository
11/2/2008
I guess one has to start with their own personal definition of a single repository. For me, it doesn't make sense to store everything in one place, e.g. email is already stored in an email client (why...
search for single repository
11/1/2008
Interesting... I didn't know about that update to EagleFiler. I haven't tried EF for a while. It's definitely true that EF and Together are very close competitors.
One thing I've noticed is that Quic...
search for single repository
10/31/2008
Here's the website:
http://reinventedsoftware.com/together/
(Not necessarily the most Google-friendly name!)
-- Chris
Cassius wrote:
>Chris, I tried Googling "Together" without luck. Where can I fi...
search for single repository
10/31/2008
Steve, if you haven't tried it already, take a look at the current version of Together. I think it's the strongest single repository program available at present. It allows you to pull in web pages as...
Ultra Recall is DEAD!
10/31/2008
EccoExt is a clever set of code that gets directly into Ecco, fixes a few things (e.g. the Y2K recurrence thing), adds a some features, and lets you program it directly in Lua without having to go thr...
Ultra Recall is DEAD!
10/30/2008
That's too bad. The message sounds suspiciously like what happened to NoteMap.
SQLNotes (now InfoQube) is looking very impressive these days, though the UI still needs polish and it doesn't yet have ...
I need to diagram sentences
10/27/2008
If you're looking to do Reed-Kellogg sentence diagrams, you probably want this tool:
http://www.sendraw.ucf.edu/
If you're looking for x-bar or graph-based sentence diagrams, I'd probably encourage y...