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• 7.30.07 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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• 7.21.07 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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• 7.16.07 My weekend with XSLT posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I just spent a very long weekend teaching myself XSL. I don’t mean long as in more than two days, but long in that I didn’t sleep and played with this stuff for hours straight. Days straight, actually. Too long. What I’m really trying to figure out is how to get this to apply to my current design. I can now fully see the power (and limitations) of xml and XSLT, but I don’t have a lot of applications that require such a technology. So here’s what I put together…

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• 7.5.07 Help Make Jott2iGTD Rock posted in Geekery

  Are you using Jott2iGTD? If so, let me know what you would improve. The next release is a complete rewrite with some huge leaps in functionality. The script will be transferrable to handling advanced, natural language task creation from any form of email, including SMS, webmail, other transcription services, etc. So let me know what you’d like to see!

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• 7.2.07 Minor Jott2iGTD bugfix posted in Geekery

  Jott2iGTD had been looking for Ruby in /usr/local/bin but the standard install should be in /usr/bin. I changed the shebang (the first line of the ruby script) to the proper location, so it should work for more users now. If you’ve been having trouble running the script (nothing happened), download the newest version and you should be okay. There are further instructions on the download page for customizing the shebang as necessary.

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• 7.1.07 Holy Cow! Jott2iGTD 1.1 posted in Geekery

  I had a bit of a brainstorm. We can run the sqlite3 command line utility as a shell command and get the output as an array. No extra libraries needed. Sorry to anyone who’s already installed sqlite3-ruby, but it won’t hurt anything ;). The download page has been updated with version 1.1, which is back to just the applescript and ruby script with no external libraries required.

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• 7.1.07 Jott2iGTD 1.0 posted in Geekery

  This is a major upgrade to Jott2iGTD, which allows you to add tasks to iGTD with your cell phone (via Jott.com). It improves on the ability to handle a slew of Jotts at once, and adds contexts and projects with Levenshtein guessing (because Jott naturally has trouble interpreting the proper nouns we often use for our project titles), as well as tags, better note support and priority levels…

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• 6.30.07 Jott2iGTD 0.9 posted in Geekery

  I hope everyone thinks this is as cool as I do ;). Jott2iGTD is a pair of scripts that allows you to easily post tasks to iGTD from your cell phone using Jott.com. All you need is (rather obviously), iGTD, a Jott account, and a cell phone. Check out the download page for more info.

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• 6.30.07 Jott and iGTD posted in Geekery

  I’m probably not the first person to do this, but I got Jott to work with iGTD…

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• 6.30.07 Quick iGTD Next Actions with Quicksilver posted in Geekery

  I started digging through the sqlite3 database for iGTD to see what fun I could have with it. Here’s a little ruby script that, in combination with quicksilver, will pop up a large type window of your top 5 next actions…

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