Creating Taskpaper Shortcuts Using Automator and the Services Menu
I’m a list writer. Everyday I write a list of things I need to accomplish, grocery lists, song lists, movies I want to see, errands I need to run. You get the idea. I also prescribe to the GTD methodology so its not enough for me to just right lists. As much as I like writing lists, if I write to many of them, they end up taking over my productivity. That is where Taskpaper comes in. Taskpaper allows me to write my lists in plain text and add tags that allow me to filter my lists into usable views. Taskpaper also allows me to use AppleScripts to automate some of the “housekeeping” tasks in my lists. I use due dates and often need to adjust them by a day or two. For that I use a script in increment the due date of a task and bind it to a keyboard shortcut.
A step by step walkthrough continues after the jump as well as a link to additional Taskpaper AppleScripts.
CTRL-ALT-DELETE on a MacBook Pro
I was working on a project and needed to do something on a PC located in an office across town. While working over the RDP session, one of the programs became unresponsive. Normally I would just hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE, pull up Task Manager and be done with it, but on my Mac keyboard its a bit different. On a MacBook FUNCTION-CTRL-ALT-CMD-DELETE is the corresponding shortcut. Hooray for keyboard mapping!
Misspelling
For years the subtitle on my blog read “little nubins of thought clinging to the asshole of my mind…” I cannot believe that it took me moving my blog to finally read and pay attention to the spelling. I mean seriously. What happened there?
Blogroids 2.0
So here we are again. A reboot of the classic. “Blogroids: Little nubins of thought clinging to the asshole of my mind…” I wonder where it goes from here?