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General Software Discussion / Re: MX Skype Recorder

« Last post by urlwolf on November 27, 2006, 07:24 AM »

Great find! Most app in this category don't really work well and they are all about $20. Have you tested this one?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Tabbed interface for Microsoft Word

« Last post by urlwolf on November 16, 2006, 12:45 PM »

Quick question, wouldnt it be possible to do this using the MS Word control provided with MS Office and a tab control? I mean, it would take some tweaking to get certain features working properly, but it doesnt sound like a hard app to code if this method would work.

-Josh (October 10, 2006, 10:31 PM)

That's what DocuBar does (which I mentioned above and no one has commented on) - it is basically a word template that adds in a control so that an extra tool bar is generated which acts as required inside Word (ie. a tab bar - it just isn't called that).

-Carol Haynes (October 11, 2006, 05:52 AM)

The problem with docubar (for me) is that it takes a few seconds to reload the tabbed window. The whole point for me is speed switching docs, so it defeats its purpose. But looking good otherwise.

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Living Room / Re: dictaphone needed - any suggestions?

« Last post by urlwolf on November 16, 2006, 10:43 AM »

The reason it may be worth it to go for a good one is that it does pretty well when integrated with Dragon Naturally Speaking. Again, I have not tried this.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: GETTING ORGANIZED EXPERIMENT - WEEK NINE ASSIGNMENT

« Last post by urlwolf on November 15, 2006, 12:52 PM »

Thanks momoman, very nice assignment, and good writing.
There is research somewhere (I think I read something in "never eat alone" by Ferrazi) showing that people who write down their goals and bring them up often are more likely to achieve them.

I think Covey fits nicely with all the other time mangament systems

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Living Room / Re: dictaphone needed - any suggestions?

« Last post by urlwolf on November 14, 2006, 01:37 PM »

I considered these devices for a while (didn't buy any).
I think the best when I looked would be the sony. It is horrendously expensive in the UK and rest of Europe.
http://www.sonystyle...DigitalVoiceRecorder
I tested it at the store and it sounds good. Probably not as good as I expected (but I only heard the small speaker it comes with, using a decent pair of speakers may be different).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple timer/Stop watch app.

« Last post by urlwolf on November 08, 2006, 12:45 PM »

I use this one:
http://www.gonebowlin.com/

Always on top, nonobstrusive.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Personal Software Process Time Logger

« Last post by urlwolf on November 07, 2006, 01:58 PM »

Actually, I found something that works very similar to taskLog:
http://www.crypto-ce...html/timekeeper.html

This one has several advantages: better reports, easier to add a new task, etc. It sucks that it seems to be dead.

If someone wants to implement the stuff this program does as an extension for tasklog, I'll definitely send some DC credits!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-review: Agenda at Once

« Last post by urlwolf on November 07, 2006, 01:52 PM »

Here is one more idea.
This application:
http://www.crypto-ce...html/timekeeper.html
Does a lot of thing right. I wouldn't buy it because it looks like deadware... but it has many good ideas in it. it is similar to DC's tasklog, but with the advantage that you can type in the task you are doing instead of picking it from a set of alternatives.

If AAO could get something like this going for its (probably coming) timer feature, it'd be great. What I mean is to have a "what task you are doing now" feature, with a popup window every now and then, to help tracking time.

Thanks

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General Software Discussion / Improving the readability of everything you read off the screen: Tofu for mac

« Last post by urlwolf on November 07, 2006, 12:32 PM »

http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/index.shtml

Is there any program remotely similar to this one? It's such a good idea!
I wish everything I browse/read will show up in multiple columns like this thing does. I just started using greatNews and one of the things that sold me was the 'newspaper view' where all articles are arranged in nifty columns.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: pavlina's forums launched, the one on productivity looks good

« Last post by urlwolf on November 06, 2006, 07:09 AM »

for some reason, I cannot post... not enough privileges?

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE7 Rant

« Last post by urlwolf on November 06, 2006, 05:22 AM »

People, give opera a good try. My guess is that you'll like it.

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General Software Discussion / installpad: automate your downloads and get latest versions

« Last post by urlwolf on November 06, 2006, 04:46 AM »

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned installpad here.
It's an app to automate your downloads and get latest versions, digged and lifehacked

It didn't work for locate when using the <DownloadLatestVersion /> option, but works ok for most other apps.

Cool little thingy.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / pavlina's forums launched, the one on productivity looks good

« Last post by urlwolf on November 05, 2006, 06:59 AM »

http://www.stevepavl...sonal-effectiveness/

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Clipboard Help+Spell / faster access to text-formatting presets without quickpast

« Last post by urlwolf on November 02, 2006, 03:10 PM »

I'd like shortcuts to be assignable to different text-formatting presets withouth having to call the dialog with quickpaste and then choosing one option. e.g., I use a lot the trimLineBreaks preset, so It'd be great to just have it under one shortcut.

Maybe ahk could be an easier solution for just trimming \n's ?

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Goal Enforcer: great time management software find!

« Last post by urlwolf on November 02, 2006, 01:44 PM »

looks a lot like mindmaps cut for time management.
I'm using mindjet mindManager and loving it.
Will give this ine a try!

-urlwolf (October 22, 2006, 02:25 PM)

urlwolf, aren't you supposed to be on an app fast for 30 days? 

It does look like a very nice app though. Might have to give it a try.

-Lilly (October 24, 2006, 09:00 AM)

Hehe, thanks, I see that you are watching over my shoulder
The fast ended Oct 23rd. I still haven't installed this app, nor IE7, nor firefox 2.0. Only essencial stuff to survive, like software to record audio from skype (for the interview) and this mindmap thing because it was used by a photoreading program that I'm trying...

Oh, and web log storming, because I won it at the dc draw.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Auto-complete Intelli-sense type utility ?

« Last post by urlwolf on October 31, 2006, 11:35 AM »

One suggestion.

This topic doesn't seem to be any longer about "Best Auto-complete Intelli-sense type utility ?" This is about launching utilities... kind of like FARR, launchy and slickRun (I may be wrong). I'm surprised none of those are mentioned.

The utility that does "Auto-complete Intelli-sense type" is, for example, flashPeak Intellicomplete (abandonware). I'm curious to see if anyone knows of a better alternative to this one.

Maybe renaming the thread would help?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-review: Agenda at Once

« Last post by urlwolf on October 27, 2006, 02:09 PM »

btw, congrats on your new forum being up and running!
http://www.datalandsoftware.com/forum/

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-review: Agenda at Once

« Last post by urlwolf on October 27, 2006, 02:07 PM »

Thanks Vladimir, it's great to have you here and know that you are listening to users 

One thing that is a favorite of mine, but might be difficult to implement is the 'email follow up' feature.

I'd like to have a program (it could be AAO) that lets me know when I haven't emailed a person in a long while. Kind of a reminder. I have read a lot on the importance of keeping in touch with people, keeping your network, etc. I just trust my memory (oh, I haven't talked to X, Y ,Z in a long time!), but that sucks.

I'd like a program in which you can enter a task list (e.g., emails, and recursive dates that it should remind you, e.g., monthly) and it just warns you that you should contact them!

Ideally, it should cross out the task as 'done' when you mail them.
the problem is that different people use different mail programs. This program should then monitor outgoing email (maybe directly listening to whatever port mail uses?) and check the to: field of the outgoing messages.

I'd be willing to pay $$ for such a feature, and I think it'd be a killer one.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-review: Agenda at Once

« Last post by urlwolf on October 25, 2006, 12:29 PM »

>Recurring tasks offer a new way of tackling this (as an option maybe).

Actually, this is already possible. If you set to-do task as recurring, it will uncheck itself automatically when needed. Let me know if it doesn't work as you expect.

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Hmm, no, I don't think it does what I intend. E.g. simple scenario.
1 - add a task to the todo list
2 - make it recurrent, daily
3 - drag it to the scheduler. it will show everyday
4 - complete the task one particular day. If you mark it as 100% complete in the todo list (ctrl + 1), nothing happens in the scheduler, the task is still there.
5 - the task is crossed in the todo list but still present in the scheduler (grr!)
6- What I meant is that I completed the task one day; so it should go grayed out in the scheduler, and not disappear in the todo list till I mark it complete
7 - if I delete the task from the scheduler in a marticular day (as a ruimentary way of marking that I completed the task that day), it disappears from the entire scheduler, but it is still present in the todo (grr! )

We need some way to mark a task as completed in the scheduler, with the todo task reflecting that the task was completed that day, but not disappearing. For example, it'd be nice to have a column to show statistics (see my post on joesgoals.com ideas) of how often we complete that daily task.

Example tasks: eat breakfast, buy groceries, have a haircut, etc

Makes sense? This is what I think would be a killer feature. And I'll stop now

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-review: Agenda at Once

« Last post by urlwolf on October 25, 2006, 12:19 PM »

Some more feature requests.
(1) Please, take a look at www.joesgoals.com. This is similar to the Sciral concistency program; something as simple as being able to check tasks done and get an overall score. Of course, this is for recurrent tasks only. This needs the feature I requested before, where recurrent tasks don't disppear from the todo list after I do them one day.

If you could implement something like www.joesgoals.com that'd be great

(2) a 'journal' section on the scheduler where we can annotate e.g., hours worked per day, pages of writing generated etc. And an easy way to graph it... maybe by exporting them to excel.

(3) option to make visible/invisible some todo sections in the scheduler. Imagine that I have a work branch and a life branch, and I only want to see one of them displayed in the scheduler; That should be possible.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Auto-complete Intelli-sense type utility ?

« Last post by urlwolf on October 24, 2006, 11:22 AM »

As-U-Type 3.2 doesn´t do intelligent completion AFAIK...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Auto-complete Intelli-sense type utility ?

« Last post by urlwolf on October 24, 2006, 11:20 AM »

I use intellicomplete, but it seems to be abandonware... buyer beware.
I´d be interested in seeing your comparision. There was a GNU one, I don´t remember the name...

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Our Mark Forster Interview/Podcast is online now (Oct. 22, 2006)

« Last post by urlwolf on October 23, 2006, 01:22 PM »

Actually, the entire interview (for academicproductivity.com) is covered here:
http://www.academicp...com/blog/archives/24

It's 51 mins. It may sound clearer (I found a way of removing my breathing like a bull ) and it has some missing chunks that I think are relevant for dc people.

It can also be listened online as a stream (if you don't want to download a large file).

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Goal Enforcer: great time management software find!

« Last post by urlwolf on October 22, 2006, 02:25 PM »

looks a lot like mindmaps cut for time management.
I'm using mindjet mindManager and loving it.
Will give this ine a try!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there any tool to see pdfs full screen in two pages?

« Last post by urlwolf on October 21, 2006, 06:52 AM »

thanks Oshyan, I tried what you say and it does make it more readable. Now, if only I could implement scrolling like in acrobat ( forget the key combo, I have mapped it to F1 with ahk)...

Also: the underlying tool (foxit pro) doesn't seem to work in some docs.

Can foxit do OCR like adobe acrobat?