If you’re not much into the Cygwin, Unix bash-script menagerie that is the Todo.txt organization system, you should try the web-based task manager Remember the Milk. It’s a whole lot simpler than Todo.txt, and has a lot of great features unique to itself. For example, you can view a Google Maps/RTM mashup of your tasks by the locations that they are based upon (for example, you would pre-configure the address for Kroger, and when you typed “buy milk” as a task, you’d select Kroger as the location). If you have a lot of tasks sprawled out in different areas, this can really help you plan your day. RTM also allows you to add different “lists” (more like contexts to those GTD folks) to which you can append tasks so that they are not all floating around in one big task bowl. And with sharing and publishing capabilities as well as a spiffy Web 2.0 interface, RTM is a viable contender to other methods of organization. In fact, in comparison to Todo.txt, I am starting to favor RTM. So, give it a try- it’s free!
Archive for January 2nd, 2007
Remember the Milk: A Worthy Alternative to Todo.txt
Published January 2, 2007 Internet , Organization Leave a CommentIf you want to search Opening Windows directly from Firefox, no matter what URL you are at, I have the code for you (There is a tutorial for you to do this on your own site, but it uses Google. I had to do some tweaking to use the built-in WordPress search).
- Paste the following code into Notepad:
<search
name=”Opening Windows”
method=”GET”
action=”http://openingwindows.wordpress.com/”
queryCharset=”utf-8″
>
<input name=”s” user>
</search>
2. Save the file as “ow.src” in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins (and be sure to select All Files from the drop-down, or else it will be saved as ow.src.txt).
3. Also in that folder, save this .GIF file.
That’s it! Now, when you restart Firefox and access your search bar in the upper-right of the window, you will see an “Opening Windows” option, complete with the Windows logo.
