Backpack Bundle for TextMate

The Backpack Bundle for TextMate allows interaction with 37Signals Backpack (backpackit.com). It currently has support for adding, editing and deleting reminders, notes and lists. With a little creativity it can be used as a GTD interface, but this depends on how you use the Backpack side. If you create your lists in Backpack using the TextMate GTD format (@work Get something done), you can drop the list right into a project as a GTD file. It does not currently allow for 2 way syncing.

Features

  • Stores your username and API key once and allows you to switch accounts when necessary

Pages:

  • Add and remove pages

Reminders:

  • Create reminders from selected text or from scratch, using “Minutes from now” or date picker
  • Destroy a single reminder from a popup list
  • Destroy multiple reminders from a multi-select dialog
  • Select a reminder from a popup list and edit it
  • See a list of upcoming reminders sorted by “Today”, “This week” and “Future” (color coded)

Notes:

  • Add selected text or document as a note, or edit a blank note. Notes are added to a selected page (a page must be selected)
  • View/Edit a note from a tree dialog, select a page->note->edit note and save. Titles can be edited by double clicking. Only last selected note is updated.
  • Destroy note from similar dialog. Allows previewing of notes so you don’t have to decide by title alone.

Account:

  • Change your username and token at any time from a dialog.

Lists:

  • View Lists

Changelog:

  • 11.22.06:
    • Rearranged Bundle Menu, added groups, separators and title casing
    • A couple of UI tweaks, including adding a shortcut key to the “submit” buttons
    • Added Page Handling for add and destroy
    • Changed handling of tokens to avoid keychain and use a preference file for the time being
    • Added “Destroy Note”, based on the view\edit command
    • Added note to “Change Backpack Account” UI to note that “token” refers to the API Key, not the password
  • 11.25.06: Added List support
  • 3.13.07: Fix to compensate for TextMate’s move of the plist lib

Installation

  • Download and unzip the file.
  • Double click the .tmBundle file to install in TextMate.
  • Commands are mapped to CTRL-COMMAND-R.

Download

Latest Version: backpackbundle2.zip
You can add comments to the release announcement for this version.

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