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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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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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Ultimate addressbook = Pmwiki maybe

Ultimate addressbook = Pmwiki maybe

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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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getting started with remind

hi!

I've been curious about Remind for a long time after reading Mike Harris' introduction, but only just got around to trying to install/use it.

I've never done anything in Terminal (like several other people who left comments to the original post), but after a lot of fiddling around I managed to install the program and set up a .reminders file. Problem is, I can't seem to actually figure out how to call up any of the reminders. "rem" or "remind" (and variants of) are "command[s] not found."

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Merlin on TWiT 88: Batteries Included

TWiT 88: Batteries Included

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Tom Merritt, Wil Harris, and John C. Dvorak

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Quantum computing, teraflop chips, and iPod bans...

In which I definitively address the origin of my oft-discussed username for Skype, AIM, Twitter, etc...

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TaskStep - Another PHP and MySQL task manager

TaskStep - Another PHP and MySQL task manager

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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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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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