Archives for the 'remind' Category

The Other Tools in My Box [GTD Wannabe]

I received an email a couple of months ago, asking what kind of tools did I use for different parts of my process. I’m finally getting around to answering those questions, mostly because part of my answer depends on information you didn’t have until I added recent posts
So, in answer to Fox’s [...]

10 May 2007 | GTD, Productivity, calendar, outlook, palm, remind | No Comments

The Super-Duper…End [GTD Wannabe]

Well, this is it! The very very last post in a very very long, drawn-out series on my Super-Duper Productivity Desktop Background. It’s been quite a while in coming, but we’ve finally reached the end.
All I want to do here is summarize what the series has covered. First, the point of this [...]

6 May 2007 | GTD, Productivity, calendar, cygwin, remind, samurize | No Comments

Second Last Post on Super-Duper Personalized Productivity Background - TV guide [GTD Wannabe]

Second last post on my Super-Duper Personalized Productivity Background series (see end of this post for a list of other posts in this series). Again, I’m talking about getting a wickedly cool productivity desktop background for your computer, using such lovely things as: Cygwin, Remind, Samurize.
But today, we’re not focussing so much on productivity, [...]

29 April 2007 | GTD, Productivity, calendar, cygwin, remind, samurize | No Comments

Introducing Remind - A Text-based Calendar [GTD Wannabe]

Before I can continue with my Super-Duper Personalized Productivity Desktop background series (see intro and stack), I need to introduce you to the software required to get your text-based calendar onto your desktop background.
First, for you folks that are living in Windows, you need to make the acquaintance of Cygwin. Cygwin is described [...]

25 April 2007 | GTD, Productivity, calendar, cygwin, remind, samurize, todo.txt | No Comments

Super-Duper blah blah blah, Part 3 - The Calendars [GTD Wannabe]

Now that I’ve introduced you to Remind (and my calendar), I can get back to my Super-Duper Personalized Productivity Desktop Background series (Part 1, Part 2).
We’re getting back to configuring Samurize again. In that introductory post, I showed you my desktop, which had a textual calendar on it. Well, two actually. One [...]

21 April 2007 | GTD, Productivity, calendar, cygwin, remind, samurize | No Comments

My Remind Calendar [GTD Wannabe]

Now that I’ve introduced you to Remind, the awesome UNIXy textual calendar thingy, I can show you what my calendar looks like.
Viewing the Next Four Weeks
Remind lets you view your calendar in different ways, from a one-day view, to a week-view, to a multi-week view. What you see here is what I call the [...]

20 April 2007 | GTD, Productivity, calendar, cygwin, remind | No Comments