Archive for August, 2006

Free FileMaker “Campus Productivity Kit”

FileMaker has released a special run-time version with 5 modules…

Manage Contacts
Organize Research and Lecture Notes
Track Group Project Assignments
Coordinate Events
Prioritize To-Do Lists

Check out the Campus Productivity Kit product page for the link to download it.
I’m haven’t actually installed it yet, but have heard good things about FileMaker Pro in the past so I look forward to [...]

GTDGmail FireFox Extension Available

GTDGmail v1.11 has been publicly released.
http://www.gtdgmail.com
or
http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3209/

Easily Organise GTD Labels
Labels are now structured into Contexts, Status, Projects and References; making it easier to read and use.
Labels can be applied much more rapidly than in standard Gmail.
Quickly Review Outstanding Tasks
Quickly review outstanding GTD tasks that are over a few days old.
Save Specialised Searches
Searches can be created and [...]

EverNote 1.5 Beta

EverNote released a Public Beta of 1.5 with the following features…

File Synchronization: With EverNote, you can synchronize your notes taken on different devices. For instance, you can synchronize your notes using a USB drive or a mapped [...]

Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) coming soon

Office 2007 Beta 2 will get a Technical Refresh to provide upgrade support to the final version (RTM) and other improvements. It has to be installed on top of Beta 2.
Dan Escapa has some posted some screenshots of the new OneNote Indexing Task Bar and looks like “Note Flags” have changed to “Tags”.

List of Drawing Tools on Vitaly Friedman’s blog

List of nifty tools for drawing diagrams, charts and chart-flows by Vitaly Friedman is self explanitory for the content, which is interesting by itself, but I also noticed this in the MindManager description…
Bloggers from Switzerland can get Mindjet for free until the 31st of August 2006 (more in German on SuperDeluxe). All you need [...]

Google Writely open for registrations

Google Writely is finally open for registrations again and will be moving to Google Accounts for sign-in soon.
Sid wrote a Walk Through for Creating and Sharing Documents that should help you get started.

MindManager Capture Tool = Gyronix GyroQ

Eric Mack didn’t post the name of the tool or the company, but RobiNZ’s screenshots revealed it to be “GyroQ” by Gyronix. Which means it will work great with ResultsManager. Unfortunetly the product page has no information yet.

Eric Mack’s Teaser about a MindManager Capture Tool

Eric Mack posted a teaser Monday about an input tool for MindManager that is similar to what Actioneer was.Actioneer was an awesome little taskbar utility that allowed very quick input into a PIM or other programs (was included on the Lotus Notes 5 CD, I believe.) It allowed categorization, keywords, quickly create tasks/notes/email/etc., quick launch [...]

Setting Goals with ThinkTQ

I’m not very good at setting long term goals, but I’ve been trying to use ThinkTQ to help me out. I haven’t gotten as far as using the whole system, but am trying to build a habit using the daily sheets. The days that I do they have been very helpful.
You can register for the [...]