Category Archives: Productivity

Top 5 OmniFocus Applescripts

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I rely on OmniFocus (both the Mac and iPhone versions) to maintain some semblance of order in my life.

I occasionally think of ideas for scripts to make OmniFocus for Mac fit better with my workflow, but I seldom have the time to actually sit down and write them, especially since I’m not particularly strong with AppleScript. I have a few OmniFocus AppleScripts installed (the main one I use is “Complete and Await Reply”), but I often think that I’m just scratching the surface of what’s possible.

So I was very glad tonight to stumble upon Sven Fechner’s excellent post, Top 5 OmniFocus Applescripts, which covers 5 particularly helpful AppleScripts. The only one that I’ve tried so far is the one that Sven calls “Quickly find a project” (the script itself is called FindProject07.scpt if you download it), but that alone was an awesome find for me as navigating quickly to a project with the keyboard is so much faster than mousing and scrolling for me.

He mentions several other scripts which look really useful and I hope to take a look at those soon. I have of course added a project to OmniFocus for that 🙂

Scrybe

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Check 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.

http://iscrybe.com/

GtD FAST

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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.

MotivAider® substitute?

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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?

Mind Performance Hacks : Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks)