Seriously over the past few months I have been so obsessed with finding the perfect GTD/Todo System that I have become less productive. I reached a point that I was downloading the same desktop system or signing up on the same site a few times a week. It’s crazy. I scower the internet looking for anything that is GTD/Todoish and I either sign up or download it immediately. Once I’m in I give it about a 5 minute once over. In that time I look for ease of use, Firefox plugins (very important), iGoogle/Netvibes modules, SMS options, email/gmail integration, lots of Ajaxy goodness, a mass import function and on and on. Then I’m done. Most of the time I never go back or when I do it’s because I forgot that I had already seen it several time before. What’s even crazier is that I use Todoist to track the sites I sign up for so what I come of my binge I have some trail to account my lost productivity. Oh but just to keep my self on the edge of insanity I bounce between using Google Notebook, Toodledo, Vitalist and Remember The Milk for tracking my Obsession as well.
During one of my “this is the last GTD site I’ll sign up for” binges I got all jazzed up about using Backpack as my personal nerve center. I set up several different pages for Todo’s, Contacts, Reminders, Links and what not. I gave it the bold title of “My Life Organized”. Then just a few days ago I stumbled upon my Backpack site and this should come as no surprise that the site was pretty much empty. The main page with the bold title was blank. Just the title “My Life Organized” heading on a blank page. No Todos, no contacts. Just a good idea not executed.
But it’s not just GTD stuff it’s everything these days. Firefox Plugins to Blogging and Task Management. Google Desktop, Yahoo Widgets, Offline Desktop apps and Outlook plugins and GMail Greasmonkey scripts. For gods sakes I logged in to Facebook and said give me one of every thing on their apps page. I had to reset my Netvibes account because it becme so over loaded with GTDish modules. I’ve got so many Greasemonkey scripts for GMail that when ever I open GMail in a new tab Firefox comes to a screeching hault and it takes up to 2 minutes to load my inbox. Oh and if the GTD app offers GCal/iCal integration you can beet your sweet a$$ that I’ve added it to my GCal account.
Wow, I’m starting to feel a lot better now that I got that off my chest.
So if you’re going to comment please do not feel the need to recommend any Web Apps or Software unless of course it’s a really cool one and I shouldn’t miss it.
This is a very easy hack that I created today.
Prerequisites
- You'll need a RememberTheMilk Account
- The Custom Buttons Firefox Extension
Once you've got a RTM account setup and the Custom Buttons extension installed you're ready to add the button.
In FF click View->Add new button....
A dialog box will appear with space to add a Name, an Image, some Code and Initialization Code.
The name and image are self explanatory. The Code box is where you'll paste the code below which will launch a new window that displays a form to add a new RTM task. The Initialization Code box is for code that will run when the browser starts up.
Past this JavaScript code into the Code box which will launch the RTM dialog when the custom button is clicked.
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javascript:(function(){h='www.rememberthemilk.com';p='/services/ext/addtask.rtm';if(window.getSelection){d=window.getSelection();}else if(document.getSelection){d=document.getSelection();}else if(document.selection){d=document.selection.createRange().text;};cp='http://'+h+p+'?d='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(document.title);w=window.open(cp,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=475,height=260,resizable=yes');setTimeout(function(){w.focus();}, 500);})();
Click OK to save and close the dialog and then click View-Toolbars-Customize and add your new button to a toolbar.
Clicking the button will launch the RTM form and now you can add tasks right from Firefox.
This is an easy hack that took me forever to figure out. This all came about because I wanted to test out some browser computability issues within Linux. The normal easy way would be to download a LiveCD, burn it to a disc and then reboot a computer using the LiveCD. This method works fine but while I am at work I use a laptop running WindowsXP with an external keyboard, video and mouse and spend most of my time running Remote Desktop to other computers on our network. So instead of reboot my work station into Linux I'd rather just run Linux in as a Virtual Machine. Enter VMWare Player.
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) by jayAllPeers allows you to share your files privately and securely and with who you choose. AllPeers is part of a new breed of P2P file sharing where you can specify who can access your shared content.
Since AllPeers is a Firefox extension the set up is a very easy. Once it is installed all that is required is that you create an account using a valid email address.
Once you're set up you can add contact either by their AllPeers username or email address.
Gmail Manager is a very handy tool that allows you to monitor multiple Gmail accounts all from with in Firefox.
What I like is that I can see what's in my Gmail at a glance.
What I don't like is that when I hover over the tray icon it display a list of unread messages but when I move the mouse over the list of email the list disappears.
Other wise if your using Gmail and Firefox that you should be using Gmail Manager.
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Sorry, for that lack of any posts this month but I have been busy working on other projects. So what are these other projects?
The first project is Top Secret but when it's in tune it's going to score.
Then there's phpYahoo which I have been plugging away at.
At some point a few weeks ago Facebook released an updated API so I have been toying with that as well as working on a new WordPress Widget for RememberTheMilk. So far both of these projects haven't gotten very far.
This brings me back to phpYahoo and the OurCity Mashup form Yahoo! I got the bright Idea that I could build a similar app using Yahoo! (Answers, Travel etc), del.icio.us, Flickr and UpComing.org. Again I have nothing to publicly show for it.
Oh and that reminds me I started another project to build an UpComing.org class library.
And lastly theres the Last.fm class that may actually be releasable.
So, I have been doing stuff just nothing I am ready to share except for phpYahoo.
) by jayI just found this Firefox Extension: Poster which allows you to interact/test HTTP Requests to Web Services.
For instance suppose you want to test a query using Yahoo's Search Web Services but you don't want to go through the hassle of either hacking some code or using my handy phpYahoo Class. What you can do is set up the query in Poster and let it deal with the heavy lifting.