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Here are some features I want but I’ll never have time to write the scripts for VoodooPad to do. I use VP mostly as a running log of notes, shell commands and todos. I also use OmniFocus for task tracking, but sometimes it’s easier to just start typing in VP and work out the tasks [...]

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2009-02-10 :: mike // mac + productivity + VoodooPad
Something Buckets

I weigh in on the idea of “everything buckets”, and using the filesystem.

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I talk about a script I’ve been using to tweak my attention scheduling.

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TaskPaper 1.0 is a to-do list app that adds just a bit of sauce to what I was doing already, and it’s great.

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2007-07-26 :: mike // email + productivity
Processing Email

I watched Merlin Mann’s Google Tech Talk about processing email yesterday, and even though I’d followed his posts on Inbox Zero when they came out, it’s good to get a reminder, and Merlin’s an entertaining speaker – I recommend you watch it. He talks about strategies for keeping an empty inbox based on processing email [...]

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I’ve been dreaming of a new kind of email client, one that only lets you look at a new email once. That’s right – you get to scan it for 30 seconds and then you have to do something with it or it gets archived out of sight. And you can only look at one [...]

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