Quicksilver, Web Snippets, and Twitter SMS

Howdy!

Our good friend Greg Borenstein over Ideas for Dozens has written up some wonderfully helpful articles on:

Working with Sandy via Twitter/SMS

A port of the fabulously useful "QuickSilver Append Trick" (for the incomparable QuickSilver on Mac OS X

And, my personal favorite of his write-ups — keeping things front-and-center using Safari's new Web Snippets feature

Greg writes:

I've made two Sandy-related widgets: one for my appointments for the month and one for my items tagged @computer. I use the @computer tag in a GTD-ish manner to specify TODO items that I can accomplish at my computer.

One of the big lessons I've learned from my attempts at doing GTD has been the importance of putting your inboxes and other TODOs directly in your path, someplace you'll stumble over them in the course of your normal daily operations. And these little applications are a really lightweight way to do just that, eliminating nearly all the friction involved in maintaining and making reference to my lists and reducing the opportunity for fiddling to a minimum.

If GTD is your cup of Rooibos, I highly recommend you take his instructions for a spin.

Thanks, Greg!

—R