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application overload! Shiny new toys....

Do you have a set of apps that do it all happily, or do you tinker with shiny new things?

I’ll admit it, I’m an applications tart. I started off with Mac Mail, then heard good things about TBird, got annoyed with that… now I’ve switched to Entourage, and ‘so far so good’. (despite the massive job of dealing with the hundreds of old unprocessed emails)

I’ve been tinkering with Wikis, signed up for BackPackit (no images on the free one….:( )and am beta-testing another funky task organizing ap. Oh, not to mention Sciral Consistency and Scrivener…  read more »

Clippings intelligently convert "stuff" into OmniFocus tasks

[Disclosure: I’m a volunteer contributor on the development of the OmniFocus app]

You could be forgiven for being exhausted by my harangues about the importance of putting actions into their own special place outside of email, web sites, or other action-bearing media (“Email is just a series of tubes,” Senator Ted Stevens, might one day say).

In fact, liberating actions from the email in which they arrived and putting them into a system that you trust is arguably the most important tenet of Inbox Zero. But it’s also advice that leaves a lot of people scratching their heads: “OK, big shot, so where do I put this new task, and how exactly is it supposed to get there?”

Well, I’m happy to say that recent sneaky peaks of OmniFocus now have a pretty neat way to help with this problem. It’s called “Clippings,” and if you’re familiar with the similar feature in OmniOutliner, you can imagine how it might work in the context of a task-tracking app and the complementary apps whose contents you want to direct to it.

Alongside the recently-added Perspectives, this is a feature that is making me very happy right now.  read more »

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Grad school notes (again; long)

I know that notetaking has recently been taken up on the front page around here, and topics pertaining to academics also pop up fairly frequently, but I thought I’d try to solicit some feedback for my particular situation.  read more »

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