Archive for July, 2007

• 07.30.07 Brainstorm posted in Geekery

  Mindmeister has exposed an API. Hmmmm… Jott2Mindmeister? I’m working on porting the flickr ruby wrapper right now, should lead to some interesting possibilities. My first project is actually just a little script that will push a line from TextMate to a mind map for later brainstorming. It’s almost identical to the Flickr API, so the transition shouldn’t be too difficult…

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• 07.29.07 Group Productivity On The Web posted in General

  I’ve been working to narrow down the array of possibilities for productivity apps at Circle Six Design. I’ve been looking for solutions that are accessible by both employees and clients, inexpensive and easy to use. Out of the array of possibilities, here’s my current list…

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• 07.26.07 The Zombie Designer (or “Pownce on These”) posted in Geekery

  We’re wrapping up what is proving to be one of our biggest months ever at Circle Six Design. More billable hours, more fun software releases, more blood, sweat and tears all around. It’s going to pay off in the end, I’m certain, but right now I’m a zombie. I’ve never worked so many hours in my life. A man should not work 20 hours a day, and if he does, he should take Sundays off. That’s my new plan, right there. No working more than 15 hours and I get weekends off. So there.

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• 07.23.07 Jott2iGTDBugfixes posted in Geekery

  We’re slowly and quietly working out the bugs in Jott2iGTD2. Thanks to some very helpful people who didn’t give up, I’ve found a couple of key problems that I wouldn’t otherwise have known about because they didn’t exist on my installs. Thanks to those who have submitted reports so far and keep ‘em coming! Version 2.2 is available, so if you’ve had bad luck at all, try the new one out. If it still doesn’t work for you, let me know. I’m really helpful ;).

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• 07.22.07 Expanding Jott2iGTD2 (You can help!) posted in Geekery

  Jott support will be expanding and improving on Jott2iGTD2, but in the meantime I’m running into quite a few people (including the author of iGTD) who can’t use Jott because it’s US and Canada only. I’m looking to find similar services available in other countries that I can expand Jott2iGTD to support. If you have a service that you use, let me know and send me a sample email that it sends you. It doesn’t have to be a voice transcription service, it can be anything you use to send yourself emails when you’re on the road…

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• 07.22.07 Mail and iGTD Screencast posted in Screencasts, Geekery

  I’ve done a quick screencast demonstrating my current, simplified system for creating tasks using Mail.app. I use Mail.app, iGTD and MailTags in the screencast to create tasks and archive important emails with links back to the original emails. I’m new at the screencasting thing, so forgive my amateur approach…

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• 07.22.07 Jott2iGTD2 Released posted in Geekery

  Jott2iGTD has officially had another birthday. Version 2 brings a host of improvements, an icon and an installer package. See the download page for more information, including a screencast (oooh)!

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• 07.21.07 Screencasting and other News posted in Geekery, General

  I’m finishing up a screencast for Jott2iGTD2 and planning to do one for my Mail.app and iGTD setup next. I’m on a roll. I got Jott2iGTD2 finished up today, complete with a new icon and installer package. It should be online shortly, I just have to finish rendering the screencast and typing up the documentation. I’m having fun with my Blue Snowball Microphone. This thing is killer.

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• 07.21.07 Jott2iGTD After Dark posted in Geekery

  Okay. It’s 12:30AM and I never stay up this late. Mostly because I usually get up about 3 or 4 hours from now. But I’m pretty deep into the new version of Jott2iGTD right now. In order to take advantage of the new notification features of iGTD, I had to use rubycocoa, and distributing that in any decent way meant a bundled app. Then the challenge was creating a universal binary (I ended up building for PPC only and it works fine). Then I had to embed a ruby interpreter to normalize the playing field. Then I had to fake out an icon (it’ll get better), and now I’m back to debugging. This is all new to me, I’ve been scripting since my Pascal days but haven’t had to compile anything for as long as I can remember. Or write a line of C. I had to write 5 or 6 to make this one work ;). So anyway, I’ve only been able to test this on two machines, one Intel, one PPC, so if anyone would like to get an advance copy and let me know if it works, all you need is the ability to run Console and email its output. Contact me if you’re interested.

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• 07.19.07 It’s my party… posted in General

  Well, it was my Birthday today. I got a lot of good wishes, in person and via the internet, which kept me going through an otherwise perfectly awful day. But all that aside, Bartek got me an advance copy of the next iGTD and the new notification system rocks. You can add tasks and archive items through any interface that can send cocoa notifications, including rubycocoa, so porting the current version of Jott2iGTD was simple. I should be ready to release the next version about the same time he’s ready to release the new iGTD. Improved guessing algorithms, way better parsing system, date handling, all that jazz. Coming soon…

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