Rocking the blogosphereCheck out the demo video. As Darth Vader said, “Impressive. Most impressive.”
Scrybe is an upcoming Web application for organizing - calendaring and such. It seems to have a very nice interface with some really interesting new ideas and some interesting tricks that allow it to work offline.
Merlin just scored a copy of rare and out of print GtD FAST CD set. This got my attention because my wife bought me the CDs as a gift a couple of years back so I have these CDs, but there are apparently a lot of folks desperately searching for this set, since it’s out of print. In fact, someone who read my blog even emailed me about it a while back.
I’m wondering what the David Allen Company’s stance is on making copies. I wouldn’t want to cheat David Allen out of a dime, but since the CDs are no longer in print, I wonder if they would mind people sharing them? It just seems a shame that so many people want these CDs but can’t have them. I’d like to be able to help, but I don’t want to break any laws or create any hard feelings.
The other day I was browsing through the O’Reilly book “Mind Performance Hacks” and it was talking about changing your habits through the use of a simple device called the MotivAider®. Basically it’s a pager-like thing that vibrates at a chose interval in order to remind you to do things. Sounds simple, huh? Unfortunately, the device costs $60! Seems pretty steep for a vibrating alarm clock.
I’m thinking that there must be some simple program that I can install on my Treo 650 that would do the same thing. In fact, I have a few timer programs such as TikTok and 1TouchTimer, but I don’t think either can set recurring timers.
Anybody know some Palm software that would fit the bill?
I was over at import this and came across another GtD tool called TaskFreak. This one is written in PHP and looks simple but interesting.
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at the state of calendaring with Mozilla Thunderbird (e.g.: Mozilla Calendar, Sunbird, and Lightning). I was hoping that they had made amazing strides in that time.
Well they’ve made a lot of progress, but it’s not stable yet. I installed a Thunderbird 3.0 nightly trunk build and a Lightning 0.1 extension on my PowerBook with OS X 10.4.6. Fired it up and now there was a nice little calendar in the Thunderbird UI. Cool! Let me import my calendar from a remote iCal file via WebDAV. Worked! Cool! But then it popped up 20 or so windows for past-due alarms. Clicking the “Dismiss” or “Dismiss All” button crashes Thunderbird. Every time. Sigh. Maybe I’ll check back in a couple of weeks.
I should probably also take another look at Chandler, which was butt ugly and not very useful last time I looked at it, but maybe it’s better now.
Back in December, I talked about PyGTD and mentioned that I’d been messing around with my own homebrew system.
To be honest, I haven’t been using it regularly lately (self-flagellation), but a few people have asked about it, so I thought I’d post about it in case people find any of it useful.
PyGTD, by Keith Martin, is an interesting little Python command-line program for GTD. You input your projects, tasks, and contexts into some specially formatted files and run this program and it spits out a todo.txt file which is your reference. As you complete tasks, you update the todo.txt file and run the program and it syncs the changes back to your context files.
This is cute and might be the ticket for certain die-hard Unix command-line freaks, but I found it a bit too complex and cumbersome. And for me, if it’s not drop-dead easy, I will end up not doing it in the heat of the moment when it’s a busy day and I have things flying at me from all directions.
As it happens, I’ve been playing a bit lately with my own homegrown Python-based command-line GTD setup. Mine I think is pretty simple and thus tenable as something that could be used on a daily basis, but I’ll have to test it in the real-world for a few weeks to see how it “scales”. If it goes well, I will be sure to post about it.
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