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I’m a “GTD” geek. After reading David Allen’s popular and successful “Getting Things Done” book, I have been following his methods, and have been so much more productive in life, and work. Here’s a link to the basic definition:
http://www.davidco.com/what_is_gtd.php
It basically boils down to using a method to “capture” stuff for your todo lists, for later tagging, organizing, and estimating time to complete. I use both paper, and computer: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30181/the-hit-list, and I wanted to write a quick post for the application I use, and a small applescript program I wrote to use my current method of getting things in my todo “Inbox” (via Quicksilver: http://blacktree.com/?quicksilver) for later organizing. Here it is:
– Begin
using terms from application “Quicksilver”
on process text theText
tell application “The Hit List”
tell inbox to make new task with properties {title:theText as
Unicode text}
end tell
end process text
end using terms from
– End
When you are done, you name the script TheHitList.scpt or what ever
you want, place it in:
~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/
(Making the Actions folder if not already there), and place the script
in there. Close THL, Close Quicksilver and relaunch both. Then,
invoke Quicksilver, press the . put in the todo text, press TAB,
Press T and your script should show up in the list, press enter, and
you are done. A very quick way of getting data into the inbox for
processing when you have time.
From the stories I have been reading about the new Obama administration’s unfortunate encounter with an IT infrastructure littered with Windows PC’s, Barack can still proudly say “I’m a Mac”. Man, what I would do for one of those Pac Man stickers 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080411/bs_nf/59251
Although I have been saying this stuff for years, it has finally come into sight of the press. Windows Vista has been a totally disappointing flop. Internet explorer has never adhered to web standards. Promises of stability back in 1995, that really didn’t happen until Windows 2000 shipped, and even then, it took several service packs – mostly SP4 – before any kind of stability was finally noticed. Security has been abysmal. It wasn’t until Vista shipped, that Microsoft finally understood that the user should not always run as the admin account. I could go on and on, but I feel like I have said this stuff so many times now, that they have become cliches. Technically, Microsoft has always been behind. They have just been better marketers than their competitors. Apple has finally put together a good marketing campaign, and really stands to gain some market share, especially when compared to Vista. OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has a much, much higher user satisfaction rating than Vista, and I am certainly one happy customer!
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