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iGTD wins first round of “My Dream App”

AdminID — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:41:56 +0000

My Dream App is a contest where people submitted their ideas, judges comment, users vote, and the last three standing get a contract to develop it as shareware.
iGTD by Jeff Greenberg took in the most votes…

iPod. Tivo. Macintosh. All consumer “cults”. If you own one of these, you know – you ‘get it’ or you don’t. And you can’t imagine life without it. Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen is a productivity system that garners the same respect. And what I’m proposing is a tight GTD application. Everything is about what is the Next Action. The projects for Actions (and the context of where) A “Collection Basket” to input “Next Actions” A sorting screen. Projects Do, Delegate (with automated tickler lists), Defer, and long term lists. Templates for common types of projects A system wide hotkey input (or dashboard widget) Integration with ical (especially alarms) address book Integration with palm, ipod Sync to a list on .mac, viewable on the web.

Check out the other apps too…

Mindjet MindManager 6 for Mac

Sid — Wed, 31 May 2006 20:21:57 +0000

I let the cat out of the bag a couple of weeks ago when I said MindManager for the Mac was coming soon. It is officially here. There are sample maps, tours, and a free trial. Check it out.

Link of the Day: The Zengobi Blog (Maker of Curio)

Sid — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:09:31 +0000

I was looking for some information on Curio when I came acros the official Zengobi blog. Zengobi is the maker of Curio. This blog was launched in January and below is the purpose of the blog. It doesn’t get updated often enough for my taste but I suspect it will get better.

In this blog we will discuss our company, our products, and our thoughts on Apple and their amazing Macintosh computers. As well as the weather, movies, recent conversations with Peanut, and, of course, the occasional family photo.

Curio 3.0

Sid — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:45:44 +0000

I am in the process of writing reviews for different note-taking applications, but in the meantime I will post brief descriptions and screenshots of the programs from their developers. Today’s program is Curio, a “Brainstorming Studio.”

Curio is the ultimate project-based brainstorming and document management application — a truly flexible and powerful project-based environment for gathering and shaping your ideas, and managing all the documents associated with your creative project. No other product on the market has the features and the intuitive interface to promote creative exploration.

Curio is available in several editions with features fine-tuned for professionals, K-12 students and teachers, and home users. We even offer an extremely low cost Basic Edition that offers bare bones brainstorming — Curio style!

Features:

Collecting and Sketching
Planning and Researching
Organizing and Searching
Sharing

Screenshots

How to Install OneNote on Mac or OS X

Sid — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:14:55 +0000

Lately, we have been getting Google queries for “OneNote Mac”, “OneNote for Mac”, etc. Sadly there is no version of OneNote for Mac. Microsoft does release Office for Macintosh. The last version of Office Mac was called Office 2004. It includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage (Mac version of Outlook), and Virtual PC (available only with Office 2004 Professional).

Here are the options I see available for Mac users:

Install a note-taking program that works on Mac (Jarnal, Curio, etc).

Use Virtual PC. Virtual PC lets you install Windows XP on a Mac. It lets you install and run practically any program available on Windows XP. For this you will need Virtual PC, Windows XP, and OneNote.

Wait for the next version of Office for Mac and hope it includes OneNote.

In the meantime, I am going to contact Office for Mac developers and ask what they are planning for the next version.