Posts Tagged With: gtd
· August 4, 2008 at 4:00 am · Desktop, Personal
Tags: colorful, colors, customize, download, folders, free, gtd, organize, Vista
Remember a few posts past, when I asked if anybody had a solution for Windows Vista color coded folders? I had this on Windows XP with the help of programs like Folderico. That is when I decided it might be better off creating my own colorful Vista folder icon pack so I could just do this myself - no extra program needed!
Download the Vista Colorful Folder Pack! (.zip)
All of the icons are in the .ico format, and supports the following sizes:
256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16
Why color code your folders? Having color coded folders for certain documents is more than just about “making things pretty”. It is also very helpful when it comes to getting things done. Let’s say you use the green folder for your bills, green is the color of money - hence it makes you jump right to it instead of having to hunt through all those yellow folders.
Depending on how popular these are, I might release more colored folders in the future. Feel free to use them however you like. If you pass it around to a friend, might also mention where you got it and ask them to subscribe to my RSS feed for more!
· April 15, 2008 at 5:59 am · Desktop
Tags: autohotkey, gtd, help, quick response, script, shortcuts, typing
I really love AutoHotkey but some people are still confused as to how you can get it to work for you. After my article about it in the recent issue of Ping! Zine I have had a few questions so I thought I would touch on the basics here for all to see. Here are the basics you need once you get it installed.
Right click on the desktop, select “New” and then “AutoHotkey Script”.
On the desktop icon created for the script, I want you to right-click on it and select “Edit Script”. This should open up a Notepad window with your empty script inside. Go to the Notepad window, hit enter twice so you are on a new line. Next I want you to type in the following:
:oc:testscript::
Now this is telling your script that the word “testscript” is your keyword to type to get your longer response to launch. Next add some text to the end of that - such as…
:oc:testscript::Thank you for your suggestion. I really appreciate it.
Now that you got that text typed into there I want you to go to “File” and then “Save” to save your script. Now lets go back to the desktop where you created your quick response, and double click the icon created on your desktop to launch it. You should see the green box with the “H” in it in your taskbar now.
Now go into any text field, e-mail, search box, anything and type in testscript then hit enter after typing it in. Presto - you just saved yourself a few more seconds in your day. You can now quickly type out phrases you use multiple times in the day and save your keyboard (and fingers) from all that extra work.
· October 25, 2007 at 8:32 am · Online Tools
Tags: E-mail, gtd, manage, organize, reminders, sandy, tasks
Having a hard time remembering certain things that you don’t really have time to write down? Well, if you are one of those people who live in their e-mail inbox IWantSandy.com might be the service for you.
Using this service could not get any easier. You get you own e-mail to contact Sandy at and she will then remember or remind you of certain things. For an example if you send her an e-mail saying, “Remind me to post about Sandy on Mitchelaneous in 15 minutes” then in 15 minutes you will get an e-mail back reminding you of the task you need to do.
The service (trying my best to stop calling the service “she” and “her”) knows the words remember and remind the best. Here is a little more information.
When you signed up, I sent you a “Welcome” message containing your own personal Sandy email address. You send me stuff by writing to me at that address, either directly or by Cc’ing me on a message to someone else. You can write to me in the subject line or the body of an email message — I pay attention to both.
More details about the service can be found on the official web site.
All in all I think this is a neat service, and I am currently trying to find reasons to use it more and more. If you need a little help getting your projects (and/or life) in order you might want Sandy too.
· September 21, 2007 at 6:09 am · Personal, Software Help
Tags: desktops, gtd, multiple, productivity, work
The last few days I have been trying to try a few more productivity and desktop applications to help me get a little more work done. One thing that I have seen for ages but never really gave a fair shot to was running multiple desktops on one machine. So I tried out a handful of programs - and I have to say it just did not do the job for me.
Now I like to keep the minimum needed open when working on anything. I really don’t like clutter - but after downloading a few of these multiple desktop programs I found it more of a chore than anything to switch back and forth for different projects or jobs I was doing.
Just in case you want to give it a shot yourself, here are a few you can try:
Multiple Desktop Power Toy for Windows XP
Dexpot
Virtual desktops are a good idea but for some reason nobody seems to have made it work just right - just yet.
