43 Folders and a bunch of Mac apps
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avramNew (to me) website: 43 Folders
Merlin Mann dispenses organizational tricks, software pointers, and other tips on saving time and getting your life in order.
Those of you who want to get organized but lack the money or silicon thumb for a Palm might want to see his entry on the Hipster PDA: a bunch of index cards and a binder clip. Not a bad idea. Before my first Palm, I spent some time getting organized with a cheap pad of paper I carried in my back pocket. Wins out on cost and durability, but loses on indexing, search, and notification capabilities, even discounting spiffy Palm apps like Vindigo (which I use a lot). Furthermore, if you’re a disorganized person, you’re apt to just lose track of that bundle of cards. A pricey Palm at least takes advantage of the $100-lighter memory hack. And then even if you do lose or break it, you’ve got it backed up in your main computer.
He’s got an intro to Quicksilver, which I think I recommended a while back, and is certainly worth looking into if you’re running MacOS X 10.3. He explains (for example) how to use Quicksilver to quickly append (or prepend) a bit of text to any text file on your hard drive, all using the power of auto-completion.
And it’s thanks to him I’ve discovered NewsFire, a neat, minimalist RSS reader that seems to be freebeer, and also supports Atom (which NetNewsWire doesn’t). PulpFictionLite also supports Atom, and is freebeer, but crashed a lot on my system.
He also reminded me of Sogudi, and got me to install it. This is an input filter for Safari that lets you configure your own search shortcuts for the address field.
Merlin Mann dispenses organizational tricks, software pointers, and other tips on saving time and getting your life in order.
Those of you who want to get organized but lack the money or silicon thumb for a Palm might want to see his entry on the Hipster PDA: a bunch of index cards and a binder clip. Not a bad idea. Before my first Palm, I spent some time getting organized with a cheap pad of paper I carried in my back pocket. Wins out on cost and durability, but loses on indexing, search, and notification capabilities, even discounting spiffy Palm apps like Vindigo (which I use a lot). Furthermore, if you’re a disorganized person, you’re apt to just lose track of that bundle of cards. A pricey Palm at least takes advantage of the $100-lighter memory hack. And then even if you do lose or break it, you’ve got it backed up in your main computer.
He’s got an intro to Quicksilver, which I think I recommended a while back, and is certainly worth looking into if you’re running MacOS X 10.3. He explains (for example) how to use Quicksilver to quickly append (or prepend) a bit of text to any text file on your hard drive, all using the power of auto-completion.
And it’s thanks to him I’ve discovered NewsFire, a neat, minimalist RSS reader that seems to be freebeer, and also supports Atom (which NetNewsWire doesn’t). PulpFictionLite also supports Atom, and is freebeer, but crashed a lot on my system.
He also reminded me of Sogudi, and got me to install it. This is an input filter for Safari that lets you configure your own search shortcuts for the address field.