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New Productivity App

New Productivity App

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

To blog or not to blog

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Can't find old forum post with Search

I did a search for "manila" hoping to find a good way to store manila folders per David Allen's suggestion to avoid hanging file folders. One of the links (the third one, to be precise, was this: http://board.43folders.com/archive/index.php/t-1146.html. But when I click on it, I just get redirected to the main forum page at http://www.43folders.com/forum, no specific topic is listed. What's up?

iGTD2 public Alpha is out

Subject says it all, get it from http://www.igtd.pl/iGTD/iGTD2/index.html

This is definitely alpha software, nothing for real use. But what it shows looks absolutely fantastic to me. It comes with a Leopard'ish interface (in fact, the iGTD 2 alpha runs only on Leopard!).

With V 2.0, iGTD will be no plain GTD implementation anymore. So if you think, DA is the only one to know and following exactly his book is the only way to success, don't read further. iGTD will probably be not for you, you'd better stick with Midnight Inbox or OmniFocus.

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LazyWeb request: DYMO labelwriter AppleScript from Quicksilver

Solved: DYMO labelwriter AppleScript from Quicksilver

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Custom shelves and desks?

Custom shelves and desks?

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TOPICS: Projects

Applescript for Internet Connect

Applescript for Internet Connect

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Discrete-izing amorphous blobs

There is one part where I end up not knowing what to do with GTD. And that's when I can't figure out a way to break down my 'next action' into discrete actionable tasks. At the risk of being too abstruse, these are tasks that you 'measure like water' -- one part flows into the next too smoothly; you can't count the individual drops.

For example:

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Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site...

I have been receiving the following error when trying to access 43folders.com: Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://www.43folders.com/.

Operation aborted

I consistently received the error on separate Vista and XP machines all running IE7 when trying to access the register or contact functions, and home page. I downloaded Mozilla Firefox in order to register and report it...

 
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