I’ve been trolling the internet again finally getting something done. I’ve posted before about GTD personal productivity book by David Allen. While investigating that I’ve come across a couple of productivity sites.
Ethan did a series of screencasts entitled “Five Steps to a Kinkless Desktop” – the series describes among other things how to remove your desktop clutter. And how to improve your workflow. Some of the suggestions I’m already doing others I hadn’t thought about. Take a few moments to review the 5 steps Ethan has included a screencast describing each step. I found it well worth the time.
Here is why I’m really excited. In part 5 he mentions a piece of software Hazel. First it is a preference pane. It is easy to install. All you have to do is to double-click. Now Hazel monitors folders and then does what you tell to do. I currently have all my downloads go to a folder. Once I’ve installed the software or looked at the download I move the item to the Offloads folder. When my offloads folders gets a couple of gigabytes I offload it to a DVD disk. Now what has me excited is that now I can have Hazel do that automatically. I like to have that done behind the scenes. I can see a lot of uses for this software. At work I often just drop documents on my desktop. Well this would clean my desktop up completely. I do a lot of Filemaker Pro work and I usually drop temporary databases there while I’m working on them. This would be great to get them moved off to the file server for storage when I’m done. This software has got me excited. Take a look at it.
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.Mac Questions
June 12, 2007After the keynote. I checked out Apple’s website. I reviewed what was posted regarding Leopard. The redesigned website takes a little getting used to. If you look at the bottom of the site you will notice there are quick links to a bunch of different items on the site. A screen grab is below.
I have circled the .mac link and if you visit the Apple site you will notice that it is the only text that is not a hyperlink. Steve Jobs at the D5 conference made a quick mention that .mac was do for an overhaul. Maybe there is more to the .mac overhaul than just adding the back-to-my-mac feature for .mac users. I’m hoping that there are more changes in store for .mac.