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Burger mod documentation

A photo, a burger, and a short story about patronizing the neighborhood.

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paste into multiple fields with Quicksilver?

During my normal work day, I do a lot of work in a web-based database application. And for the really repetitive data entry items, I have set up triggers to paste the "canned text" into different fields. But I have yet to figure out how I can paste into multiple fields at once with one trigger. Is this possible?

For example: Right now... I manually place my cursor in a field... hit Cmd+Opt+O to paste the first bit of text... hit the [Tab] key on my keyboard... hit Cmd+Opt+P to paste the next bit of text... hit the [Tab] key on my keyboard... hit Cmd+Opt+[ to paste the last bit of text.

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Track keywords all over the place with MonitorThis

MonitorThis

Your ability to ego-surf yourself (or, I suppose, just track a favorite "non-you" topic) is now a lot easier.

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Applescript: using Quicksilver to append to OmniOutliner documents

I'm hoping that someone can help me. I've done some searching today for this and was surprised not to find very much information about what I'm looking for.

We all know that you can use Quicksilver to append to an existing text file (with the .txt suffix). However, I keep a set of lists—my non-systematic ‘stuff’—in a set of OmniOutliner documents. These documents are all stored in one folder. There seems to be no way to use Quicksilver to append a line to an arbitrary OmniOutliner document, as far as I can tell.

I've found this page which gives a script to use as a Quicksilver action. That script will append to a .oo3 document whose filename is hard-coded into the script. I would like to be able to define which document to append to from within the Quicksilver interface, in the third argument.

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newbie question about contexts vs. projects

newbie question about contexts vs. projects

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Online Goal Setting Community?

Hi,

I was just wondering if any of you know of a good online community devoted to goal setting, motivation, and/or NLP?

I've searched, but haven't found much.

Thanks, Ted Chicago

GTD and the creative life...possible?

GTD and the creative life...possible?

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Definition and Structure: Mission, Goals vs Projects

Definition and Structure: Mission, Goals vs Projects

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Graphic Design and GTD

Graphic Design and GTD

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Hawk Wings: Me on Mail.app

Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Talking Mail.app: Merlin Mann

Tim Gaden's been doing a series on various Mac folks' usage of Mail.app. He's talked with folks like John Gruber, Mathowie, and Ethan Schoonover about what they like (and don't) about OS X's default mail application, as well as the ways they'd like to see it improve.

Tim was kind enough to ask me as well, and the results are up at Hawk Wings:

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