I’ve written several drafts of my Yahoo IM “update” experience, but all turned into *major* rants. For a better summary see Marketing Pilgram’s post.
So I switched to Trillian Basic 3 (free) and uninstalled Yahoo & AOL. I still have gTalk, but I’ll buy Pro soon (adds Video Chat, Jabber/gTalk, GroupWise, Rendezvous, “Identities”, and more).
It’s been [...]
FusionDesk was officially released yesterday (12/29/2006)…
5 things I liked…
Clean interface and easy navigation. Ribbon style menu.
Tabbed Projects and Tree Hierarchy with sub-folders.
Reports that are both functional and print ready.
Multiple Export formats.
Built-in timer and ability to track/expense time.
The one improvement I would most like to see…
Rich Text Editor in the Notes.
Currently totally plain text, so no [...]
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 [...]
SmartDraw 7 is awesome. Feature packed and easy to use. It advertises that it is the “the Internet’s #1 Drawing Tool” and I don’t know that I would dispute it.
The trial period is only 7 days and it adds a watermark to saved output. I haven’t had time yet to make enough notes to write [...]
SmartOutline 2007 has a lot of cool features and their website has tons of examples of what you could do with the program.
It was all very intriguing, but the actual navigation in the program is horrible. You have to right-click for everything. There is no icons to add new forms/items and even the keyboard shortcuts [...]
I finally got around to checking out www.BubblePlanner.com as suggested by Bill (of BubblePlanner.com) in the comments…
Bubble Planner is a paper-based organizer with most of the input areas being bubble shaped and is based on GTD ideas.
There is a “Peek Inside” link on the left which shows most of the planner pages. They seem to [...]