Oh lazyweb, I need your assistance.
I’m looking for some organiser/to-do software. I want lots of things…
The easy ones:
- MacOSX client
- Handles recurring appointments, untimed to-do items etc
- Syncs with Palm
- Tasks/appointments can be viewed online
Those are all things iCal can do for me right now, with more or less tweaking. (Actually, I’m not sure about the Palm syncing – but I’m sure there’s some way of subscribing to the iCal file or some such…) So, now the tricky bit…
I really want some kind of heads-up-display of upcoming appointments/due items/length of to-do list. Something that sits in the corner of my screen, and tells me I have four classes today, an email to reply to before tomorrow, and 10 todo items. Something like the “Bugger” app that goes with Product Studio, in Microsoft. (Bugger has a little box that sits in the corner of the screen, with a red square beside the count of open bugs assigned to you, and a yellow square beside the count of resolved-but-not-closed bugs assigned to you. When a new bug is assigned to you, a little notifier window appears in the bottom corner, like the MSN Messenger “Your contact has signed in” thingy, with information about the bug and a bit of the bug description…)
So, what do you prescribe?
(Alternately, does anyone know where I could get a decent second-hand brain?)
I’m not entirely sure if either of these will fulfill most of your requirements, and my net connection is far far too crap to actually find out, so i’m just gonna point you in their direction -)
http://www.llamagraphics.com/
and
http://www.pimlicosoftware.com/ (yes, yes it is a terrible site)
Steve
I use several tools in conjunction wth iCal to do everything you want
iCal (of course)
the Missing Sync (http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_palmos.php)
iCal Events widget (http://www.benkazez.com/icalevents.php)
DoBeDo widget (http://www.bluehenley.com/products/dobedo/index.php)
The widgets can be dragged onto your desktop and remain “on top”
Growl (http://growl.info/) can be used for notification of almost anything.
I also highly recommend MailTags (http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html – if you use IMAP, get the beta) and Quicksilver (http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/)
Guess I should post directions on *how* to get widgets onto the desktop:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050422172929402
OmniOutliner Pro + kGTD.
I use it to manage my master To Do list of doom (200+ items is an optimistic estimate). It can use iCal as glue to your TX and it even has a simple syntax you can use on your Palm or from QuickSilver to file items with no effort (ie Foo >Bar @Call will file item “Foo” under project “Bar” and it’s action is a “Call”)
Also, I’ve recently started playing with MissingSync. It’s much better than the iSync conduits for a Palm