Wow, this looks like a very cool DHTML app for doing GtD
Simple and elegant and cool animation too. I am definitely going to have to play with this some more.
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Category Archives: Productivity
GtD with Gmail whitepaper
If you’re a fan of GtD and Gmail, then you may be interested in this whitepaper.
Personally, I don’t use Gmail. My work email is stored in Maildirs on my FreeBSD box and is accessed through Courier IMAP using Thunderbird. My GtD methodology for processing work email is described in this blog post.
I use Yahoo! Mail for my non-work email.
Clipomatic
Clipomatic is a very simple freeware program that keeps track of the last 10 items in the Clipboard and also allows you to have permanent entries that you can paste as well.
Favelet Suite
Quick File 0.15
Don’t know what Quick File for Thunderbird is? See my original post on it.
From an email announcment from Paul Tomlin:
Quick File 0.15 has been released.
You can download this spiffy new version from the Quick File homepage at
http://www.paultomlin.com/projects/mozilla/thunderbird/quickfile/
Changes from 0.14 include:
- Fixed the auto selection of the next message. Previously there was an option in the extension options dialog ‘auto select next message’, which has been removed. This feature is now enabled all the time and works far far better. I’ve not had a single occurance of the previous bug whereby the message preview pane would not have any content, even though the header information was displayed.
- Fixed handling of folders which have regular expression meta-characters in their names. Previously, if your selected folder name included brackets, braces, hash/pounds and various others the OK button would be greyed out. An earlier attempt, privately mailed to a few people failed to fix the problem but I finally tracked the issue down. I’ve not managed to make this version fail on any folder names. If you find an example then please let me know, since I now know where to look for the problem.
SlickRun
I have quickly grown quite fond of this program. It is a free Windows program, similar in concept to the commercial app ActiveWords which I demoed for a while, but it never stuck with me for some reason.
It’s basically a little command-line that you can bring up by pressing a key (Windows+Q by default) and then you can type “MagicWords” to launch programs, go to URLs, etc… I’ve setup words to take me to certain web sites I use at work, email myself, lock the computer, go to “Program Files” or “My Documents”, etc… It just seems much easier to me to use the keyboard than to hunt around for the proper shortcut and shortcuts , whether on the Desktop or in the QuickLaunch bar, take up screen real estate and make things seem cluttered. I strive to have my desktop as clutter-free and Zen-like as possible and this helps me have that and still be able to launch things quickly.
So to recap, my favorite productivity-enhancing programs, in rough order of decreasing usefulness to me:
* StrokeIt [ my blog post ]
* Thunderbird with Quick File extension [ my blog post ]
* SlickRun
* AutoHotkey [ my blog post ]
What are yours?
David Allen podcast on the podcast network
I’m listening right now to a David Allen podcast on the podcast network. David is interviewed by Aussie Richard Giles. Interesting stuff if you’re a GtD junkie.