Since 43 Folders launched three years ago, I've been thrilled and humbled by the insight that readers, commenters, and the occasional guest blogger have brought to this modest undertaking. And I've regretted that it's been a little clunky to properly share those insights with the same authority and promotion as your hapless author's contributions. Well, I think we're about to get better at that.

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:

• 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."

Bot-driven job search+submit app

Help My GTD Setup!

I'm disciplined about doing my weekly review. I knock through it every Monday morning and feel great after.

For a couple years now, however, I have had two items on my Weekly Review Checklist that I rarely check off. They are taken verbatim from David Allen:

"Empty my head" "Be creative and courageous"

I don't know if it's a problem relating to the altitude of my mind during a weekly review (which I suppose is generally in the range of 10-30k feet), or if these checklist items are too vague to be useful (and not meant to be ripped from the David and put in this context).

Help me help the helpful!

I work at a non-profit and I have a group of volunteers to coordinate. This actually can eat up a chunk of my time. I already know that tasks that need to be done and I need a way to send out timed reminders to volunteers.

I want to be able to input all the future reminders at one time and trust that at the appointed time in the future, the volunteers will be duly reminded.

Barriers: volunteers use a host different e-mail services and also do not want to sign up for any more lists/services.

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