Archive for January, 2008

GTD Task Management Apps IV: Midnight Inbox

Monday, January 28, 2008 23:20 5 Comments

This is the fourth post in a series comparing task management applications based on the ‘Getting Things Done‘ process. Today I’ll look at Midnight Beep Softworks’ Midnight Inbox 1.2.8.
Perhaps more than any other task management application I’ve explored to date, Midnight Inbox from Midnight Beep strives to be the single point of entry — the [...]

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Cultured Code comments

Thursday, January 24, 2008 22:22 2 Comments

A friend emailed me last night to ask if I had tried ‘Things‘ from Cultured Code. I have — this is one of the GTD-based task management applications I will review in the coming weeks. So far, I’ve written about iGTD and OmniFocus, both excellent applications. The View from the Dock ‘Getting Things Done’ task [...]

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GTD Task Management Apps III: OmniFocus

Sunday, January 20, 2008 17:35 9 Comments

This is the third post in a series comparing task management applications that are based to some degree on the ‘Getting Things Done‘ process. Today I’ll look at OmniGroup’s OmniFocus 1.0.
OmniFocus is the latest offering from OmniGroup, one of the most well-respected software developers for the Mac. As a long-time user of OmniWeb (my casual [...]

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On the iPod Touch

Friday, January 18, 2008 21:19 3 Comments

I’ve been using Omnigroup’s OmniFocus for several weeks now to prepare for my evaluation of this task management application (part of a series). It’s quite an impressive tool. I’m ready to put my thoughts together — look for it by the end of the weekend. Meanwhile, I want to comment on the iPod Touch.
I’m going [...]

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Dvorak victory! TextExpander fixed

Saturday, January 12, 2008 21:24 2 Comments

Dvorak users of the world scored a little victory this week. The TextExpander team at SmileOnMyMac fixed the problem with the Mac OS Dvorak-Qwerty keyboard layout, detailed in an earlier View from the Dock post.
A recap of this bug: when using the Mac OS Dvorak-Qwerty option, TextExpander did not previously work. Now it does. How [...]

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Site Registration Fixed

Friday, January 11, 2008 11:18 No Comments

I discovered the solution to the WordPress registration problem. You will now receive an email with your chosen user name and password when you subscribe to this site. The problem is with the last WordPress upgrade (2.3.1). With some hosts (including Bluehost, my host), this upgrade broke the auto-generated email. I don’t know why, but [...]

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