Levenger Analogy - Your thoughts?

In which Alex is still on about the notional iPhone (and its current-day antecedents), Leo loves his lumber-swinging MacPro, Scott is completely full of beans, and everyone rags me mercilessly about my fondness for new age nap software.

As I anxiously await the Google Gods to bless me with IMAP support I've been thinking about how I will go about reorganizing mail.app. I can't wait to be able to have 'one stop shopping' for my email organizational needs.

Given that I am a keyboard shortcut ninja with Gmail's web interface (and mail.app for that matter) I was curious if there's a way to reproduce some of the common gmail shortcuts. i.e. hitting 'y' to archive a message, etc.

Is this something that can be accomplished in Applescript or perhaps automator after I get Leopard installed tomorrow?

-Lon

It's been a while since we've done a 43F "best of," so here's a few of the posts and podcasts from the past few months that have generated the most traffic, comments, emails, and linky love. Also, if you're new to the Mothership, don't miss our January series, "Fresh Starts & Modest Changes."

freeware Windows GTD

The following is a copy of my latest blog post on the new Ikea opening in Cincinnati. I hope that my words or the photoshop job (attached image) I did does not offend anyone, that's not my intention... just voicing my thoughts, and trying to make some sense of some crazy things.

Standard GTD File Format, Anyone?

I have squirrely phases that repeat like clockwork. An abortive pass at creative drawing, an oddly devoted infatuation with the early ELO, and the sudden yen to play with my old Palm V—each reappears every 7 or 8 months, and each, in its fashion, passes in less than a week. Turn, turn, turn.

Last time that the Palm bug bit me, I learned about SplashShopper, the heir apparent to my previously favorite PDA app, JShopper. Both Palm apps excel at tracking Have/Need items for a bunch of different stores, which you can customize to your heart’s content. This means, for example, “2% Milk??? can be associated with Safeway, Trader Joe’s, and Costco, as well as the bodega around the corner.  So you have a persistent, reusable, totally contextual shopping list for wherever you happen to be. Best use of the Palm ever, this shopping list tracking stuff. But, SplashShopper attracted me with two big additions.