May 25
2010
I’ve taken a little time to improve the script I’d posted previously. It saves bookmarks you add to Delicious as webloc (Safari bookmark) files on your local hard drive, optionally with thumbnails and OpenMeta tags.
First, it adds Spotlight search abilities to your Delicious bookmarks, and, if you use OpenMeta tags, it integrates a tag-based search into any OpenMeta application. The second half of that is, in my case, I bookmark in different ways for different purposes, and it’s nice to have everything integrate into a full search in the end. For me, that search is primarily tag-based, thus the OpenMeta tagging…
May 08
2010
I’ve been using Things for task management lately, mostly because it has a decent iPad app. I really do love my iPad… however, I often use TaskPaper from Hog Bay Software for weekend to-do lists and for tracking bugs and fixes on my various freetime projects. I sometimes edit my TaskPaper files (which are just plain text) in TextMate and use some Ruby scripts adapted from the GTDAlt bundle to do some fun things, but I really like the interface you get when you actually use TaskPaper…
May 07
2010
I’ve seen a few people around the ‘net sharing their TextExpander snippets, so I thought I’d join in. Not familiar with TextExpander? It’s a Mac utility that expands short snippets into full text you’ve defined. There are quite a few programs that do text expansion (see Typinator), but TextExpander currently holds my heart because of its extra features such as shell scripting, completion suggestion and a new Fill dialog for variable input.
Most of my snippets are specific only to me, such as email signoffs and abbreviations for companies I work for…