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Organizing ideas and sketches for artists

I am an illustrator who does storyboards for advertising and I am trying to make my self teaching more rational and to the point. The outcome I'm after is that I'll have the ability to keep my train of thought recorded using words as well as my sketches so that when work sporadically comes in and interrupts my explorations I wont come back two weeks later with only the memory of something exciting I was doing but can't quite remember what it was.

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TiddlyWiki, Backpack and assistance in the GTD jungle for a noob

TiddlyWiki, Backpack and assistance in the GTD jungle for a noob

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How do you motivate yourself?

How do you motivate yourself?

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Why don't some websites work with Firefox on certain wireless connections?

Why don't some websites work with Firefox on certain wireless connections?

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how do you choose tags?

hey guys

I would like to know what your habits are in tagging files.

I found this very cool app, Punakea. It's a tagging software, basically similar to Yojimbo, Journaler,...and I'm thinking of tagging all my documents and files and have them organized by Punakea (instead of sorting them manually into folders)

So do you have a certain system or what is your thinking process when you tag the files.

thanks for any suggestions

simon

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TaskStep - Another PHP and MySQL task manager

TaskStep - Another PHP and MySQL task manager

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How many next actions of a project on your next actions list?

How many next actions of a project on your next actions list?

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Merlin on MacBreak Weekly: Apple's "Showtime" event

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MacBreak Weekly 6: It's Showtime

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Chris Breen, Alex Lindsay, and Brett Larson

Complete coverage and analysis of Apple's "It's Showtime" announcements...

As usual, the perspicaciousness of my insight reveals itself in quips like "This is pretty" and "People should buy this" and "Apple seems smart." Is it any wonder the Windows People hate us? No, friends. No, it isn't any wonder at all.

Running time: 58:49

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Easy Mail.app sorting

I'm a recent convert from Windows to Mac and have been loving it so far.

One thing I really haven't gotten solved yet though is email. Since my work uses Exchange, I was using Outlook 2007 before and had this wonder add-in called ClearContext (http://www.clearcontext.com/) that allowed me to quickly assign a category/topic to a thread, and then with one click, the entire thread would be filed away into the topic's folder and out of my inbox.

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