I have outfitted a hard-cover sketchbook as my Hipster Laptop. Pictures here:

link: http://thedu.us/hLaptop

Seems to me like it's in tune w/ the spirit of the hPDA.

Basecamp: New GTD Implementation Ideas

I would like to communicate with people integrating Getting Things Done with the Daylite organizer program for Mac. If I find someone really proficient, I would be happy to hire you as a consultant. Thank you.

Richard Shane

I recently read an interesting post at Study Hacks about building a research database. The program used was Microsoft Access and I was looking for suggestions for a Mac program which might accomplish the same tasks. I have Devon Think and will take a look at Filemaker Pro, but I was looking for some other suggestions.

Thanks for any help.

• The Limits of Efficiency - "It turned out that my problem wasn't that I was insufficiently efficient. The problem was that I was way too overextended."
• Macworld: First Look: Numbers - "The way Numbers works goes against nearly 20 years of training, so I really have to try not to 'think Excel' when using the program." [via: Lifehacker]
• Start Here - Neato-looking notebooks that you can "link together." [via del.icio.us/jstarkweather]
• Twitter / Andre Torrez: [on to-do lists] - "How about less to-do apps, and more apps that help me do things?"
• 404 Pros - "Inspired by other sites' 404s and ready to create your own work of error art? Here is some information to get you started."

Academic Note Collection Project

I have one of the "older" Fujitsu Scansnaps (fi-5110EOXM) that came with Acrobat 7.0 only. I moved overseas right after getting the scanner and was unable to get Readris by mail-in. Now, I have no OCR capability except for Acrobat 7 Pro which seems to be non-useful (won't OCR, crashes). My scans don't show up in Spotlight. :(

I would love to 1) OCR my past scans as well as 2) continue to scan in rapid succession during the day and have something do OCR at night.

My questions:

-Is there any software that will do batch OCR on my scans that is affordable?

Deez Steeles: Getting Things Done as Marriage Counciling

This is a wonderful post, and it illustrates something I hear from people all the time—how they feel more tuned-in to their personal life once they find a way to climb out from underneath their pile of ephemeral crap, and, frankly, how they are finally able to pull their head out of their ass long enough to pay attention to the really important people in their life.

In my case, my positive outcome is that my marriage is strong, and my wife knows and feels like she is the #1 priority in my life.  So then I can identify the next physical thing I need to do in order to accomplish those goals: it might be buying flowers, or taking an evening to cook dinner and spoil her, or booking a little weekend getaway.  Now, my wife doesn’t really like the idea of being treated like a “project,” against which tasks are assigned.  But, I would say that I’m just using GTD as a tool to make sure that I am constantly reminded to take actions to make her a priority.  That can’t be bad.

That’s pretty cool. Nice Valentine’s Day message for you GTD fans (and a savvy reminder never to let your loved one know they’re a project).