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OSXCon | Merlin Mann

Applescpttdg_1Danny and I had a great time doing our talk yesterday at O’Reilly’s OSXCon. Met a bunch of great people and enjoyed the chance to hang with like-minded nerds. I love that people want to show me their squirrely productivity setups. Time management pr0n! Totally into it.

Our time for the session just flew by, so we didn’t have the time we would have liked to spend with all the apps. If you were there (or just like to play with OS X apps), here are links to all the things we talked about (or planned to talk about). If I left anything off or you have any questions, feel free to leave comments.

Thanks to Derrick and Vee for all their hard work, and thanks to everyone who showed up, asked questions, and just said hi. Stay in touch.

Also—since a bunch of folks had asked—the Finder replacement app you saw in the demos is Path Finder. It’s a terrific, super-functional app that adds tons of features to speed up your work flow.


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Allan's picture

Path Finder has sure grown...

Path Finder has sure grown up. Thanks for the reminder. looks good too.

Daniel's picture

Great talk at Mac OS...

Great talk at Mac OS X con - how did you integrate mark down with textmate?

Merlin Mann's picture

@Daniel: Thanks, man. As far...

@Daniel: Thanks, man. As far as Markdown, there’s 2 ways to do it in Textmate.

The neato builtin way is to pipe your web preview through Markdown.pl, which you can keep in a bin folder someplace.

The more comprehensive solution is to get HumaneText which is available as a Service from any Cocoa app.

andrew's picture

And if you prefer Textile...

And if you prefer Textile to Markdown, you can use that with HumaneText, too. I wrote some instructions on how to make it work.

Chris Forsythe's picture

You had a talk with...

You had a talk with growl in it? Woah :D

Ping me on email :D

Kevin Wen's Web's picture

links for 2004-10-30 The Start-Up Chronicles:...

links for 2004-10-30

The Start-Up Chronicles: Sleepless In San Francisco Bj interview Om Malik on Start-up business (categories: Business Entrepreneur to-do) Free Ruler for Mac OS X an elegant little application for helping you measure the width and height of things you…

Atama no naka ni's picture

in fact i should have just...

in fact

i should have just linked to the entire basket of applications.  t3h s3x0r5….

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