{"id":1312,"date":"2009-03-06T05:08:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T13:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2009-03-06T05:11:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T13:11:32","slug":"mac-software-dropbox-googaby-and-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/03\/06\/mac-software-dropbox-googaby-and-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac software: DropBox, Googaby, and Things"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thanks to Twitter<\/a>, I found three tools that are now a critical part of my computing life.<\/p>\n

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The first tool is Things<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Things is a task list manager that implements the important parts of the personal task management system created by author David Allen called Getting Things Done.\u00c2\u00a0 Tasks can have tags and notes; notes can include URLs that can be clicked to open in your favorite browser.\u00c2\u00a0 You can categorize tasks by Area and Project; Projects can be contained in Areas.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve started posting URLs I need to read for work into Things, and after I arrive reading the web content when I get a chance based on the task showing up in the Today view.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a post on their wiki support site describing how to share Things tasks between two computers using a tool called DropBox<\/a>; I now use that to share various files between my work and home laptops.<\/p>\n

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Googaby<\/a> is a tool to copy contact information between Google GMail and Mac’s Address Book.\u00c2\u00a0 I use Entourage from Microsoft, but synchronize those contacts with Address Book so I can use Address Book tools on contacts.\u00c2\u00a0 Googaby moves my contact information from my Mac to GMail.\u00c2\u00a0 The reason I especially wanted to mention Googaby is because it didn’t work completely when I downloaded it; it would lock up part way through my Address Book; the author posted a patch that night which fixed the problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Thanks to Twitter, I found three tools that are now a critical part of my computing life. The first tool is Things.\u00c2\u00a0 Things is a task list manager that implements the important parts of the personal task management system created by author David Allen called Getting Things Done.\u00c2\u00a0 Tasks can have tags and notes; notes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[492,497,495,2369,2372,2373,496],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-david-allen","tag-dropbox","tag-googaby","tag-google","tag-mac","tag-microsoft","tag-things"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t