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Guest Check PDAMerlin Mann | May 27 2005 This is a clever variation on the Hipster PDA that I picked up over on the HPDA wiki page. Use a cheapie, pocket-sized pad of restaurant “Guest Checks” to take notes. The hack is to use the kind with old-school carbon copies, so you’ll always have an archival copy of any notes you take. Check out the full set on Flickr. 5 Comments
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More on gluing stuff together in EntourageMerlin Mann | May 27 2005The main reason I stick with Entourage for all my calendar, TODO list, and—to a certain extent—archival email needs, comes down to one word: glue. As annoying as Entourage is in so many ways, I love that I can basically associate anything with anything via the “Link” functionality. This provides a handy little landing pad for any task, note, event, email, or contact onto which you can drop any other Entourage object as well as virtually any item from the Finder (for some reason it doesn’t easily handle URLs, which seems kind of dumb: use .weblocs as a workaround). Entourage then perpetually remembers that association in both the linking and linked items. Got it? Group like with like, and then get to anything from anything (Steal this idea, Apple; use Spotlight). So, I can associate an email message with a TODO, attach a text file to a calendar event (see my article in June’s MacWorld), and even, apparently, attach Applications and folder paths to any Entourage object. Why is this last one so freaking handy? Lemme show you. read more »POSTED IN:
Uninstalling Keyword Assistant fixes iPhoto hangMerlin Mann | May 27 2005iPhoto hung in Tiger until I removed “Keyword Assistant” from the installer. read more »POSTED IN:
Mnemonics, smart food, and why nuns don't get senileMerlin Mann | May 26 2005Grab bag of ways to get your brain in shape. read more »POSTED IN:
Cringe-Busting your TODO listMerlin Mann | May 23 2005As I’ve said before, items can sometimes linger on your TODO list a lot longer than you’d like, and it can be tricky to understand exactly why that is in each case. I’m convinced cringing is often a factor. read more »POSTED IN:
Review: Scott Berkun's 'The Art of Project Management'Merlin Mann | May 23 2005
The Art of Project Management
by Scott Berkun oreilly.com — Online Catalog: The Art of Project Management O’Reilly recently sent me a review copy of Scott Berkun’s The Art of Project Management. I’ve read a couple chapters through, and—as the author himself has recommended—have grazed through a bunch of the sections that looked especially interesting to me. See, I have a marker for a non-fiction book that’s really connecting with me—as I’m reading it, I find myself repeatedly cursing the fact that it didn’t exist earlier. I’m definitely feeling that with this one. Where so many Project Management books fetishize GANTT charts, waterfalls, and abstract planning methods, most of Berkun’s book lives much further down in the trenches—where misunderstandings happen, dates slip, and bad decisions threaten to derail your project. The book is full of really practical advice on handling these challenges in the real world. And, yes, I really wish it had existed 7 or 8 years ago. As it is, many of my bouncer skills were primitively self-taught. read more »POSTED IN:
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