your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

can't remember if I plugged it, but I've been using Wunderlist as my to-do program. It's the to-do program I've always wanted. And doing my taxes I realize I actually spent money on the Things app and desktop app, when it is totally useless compared to Wunderlist.

Nice simple layout, sub-tasks, sharing etc. Everything I need.

There are too many list apps!

if only there was some way to keep track of them all

Just gonna throw my hands in the air, and use the free copy of Clear I downloaded at some point

I just use apple reminders for lists.

1. Wunderlist is better than all of those.
2. That's all you need to know.

and maybe not so little, but after spending a good deal of time trying to figure out how to build my own database application for as little money and technical knowledge as possible, I found Zoho Creator. Within minutes I had built an online client and job tracking system. Not free, but cheaper than buying Filemaker and easier to use than anything else I tried.

FWIW, I'm using Apple reminders too. Don't need anything more than that.

No sub-tasks though, right?

i use list apps and then i get too many to dos and then i abandon the app out of fear. this has happened more than once.

also i like trello a lot.

Trello is really great, yep.

This oneNote is quite nice, too. I hope the new outlook's like this.

No sub-tasks though, right?

No. I don't have a need for that myself as I break everything out into separate task lists.

https://usetorpedo.com/

BetterTouchTool has been lifechanging.

A few hours left for this. I got it for Fantastical (which is really nice so far) and Tangerine (which I'm hoping will help me make good BPM playlists for running. There are a few other decent-looking apps in there too.
https://exclusives.macappdeals.com/sales/the-name-your-own-price-summer-productivity-bundle-ft-path-finder-fantastical

Sunrise Calendar. Syncs with Facebook events...but only imports events you've rsvpd yes or maybe to! I've wanted this for a LONG time.

Vienna 3 finally out of beta. http://www.vienna-rss.org/?p=428

Highly recommend it for RSS reading.

any thoughts on a good Mac or iOS way to turn voice recordings into text? Siri is pretty good at it in real time, but I want to be able to record myself talking for a while and then have software turn what I've said into text. this must be like the most obvious thing ever but I don't know what to look for! ideally I could do it on my iphone but talking to the laptop (or transferring a voice memo from my phone to my mac) is ok too.

basically sometimes I find myself teeming with well-organized thoughts but when I sit down to type them I get too psyched out by having to get those thoughts "just right" and I just want to let my thoughts ~flow~

(interviewers must have software like this, no?)

Dragon is the standard in healthcare (for dictating clinical notes)

Dragon seems to be the most popular name in the business, since they've been doing the speech-command thing for years, makes sense they got a handle on the reverse

Could just use the speech-to-text that's built into Yosemite: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18731

Oooh, didn't know about that

yeah maybe I could just play voice memos from my phone into yosemite that seems kinda 80s but maybe it'll do the trick

Be sure to post the results here: Read where you make your posts by using the microphone don't correct anything

i used to have a little app that lived in my menu bar and with which i could set a custom hourly (or other time period) reminder. it was clean and lightweight and for the life of my i cant find it again. anyone have anyidea???

I used to use pomodoro timers which might be similar?

nah, it wasnt a pomodoro branded thing at all, just something you'd set up to ping you once an hour or once every 45 minutes

tinyalarm?

that's not it, but looks like it will work for my purposes. thanks.

this was it http://lifehacker.com/5987547/remindmeagain-is-a-simple-reminder-app-that-lives-in-your-menubar

no longer available!

RIP remind me megan

remind me (to drink) a gin

http://flashlight.nateparrott.com/

I think Vienna is just what I've been looking for.

this means nothing to me

really means nothing to me with the App Store and itunes down right now ... friggin' stupid watch

It's an RSS reader. I've been having so much trouble with Chrome the last few days I want to ditch it, but there's an RSS extension for it that works exactly the way I like (RSS Live Links). But it's not supported anymore and is starting to act a little froggy, so I'm checking alternates. Elvis Telecom has plugged Vienna a couple of times upthread.

bazqux is still the rss reader to rule them all imho (browser based, but whatever)

Feedbin ftw

oh man max thank you for flashlight

http://f.cl.ly/items/0u1r272u3s3o1Z062e3W/Screen%20Shot%202015-03-11%20at%2021.15.20.png

the very definition of hoonja doonja

flashlight totally didn't work for me. I uninstalled it right away.

skim is the pdf reader for mac i have been looking for http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/

what flashlight plugins do people suggest

if you don't already use spotlight on the reg it's maybe not handy but wtf you should be using spotlight on the reg

shutdown
instranslator
weather's not granular enough for the UK
emoji
remind me

yes or no is p sweet too

its really buggy and clearly cobbled together and not at all what spotlight is made for but i still prefer it to any of the app launchers and it just shows a bunch of ways apple should rethink spotlight, as a natural language

i use it for messaging, weather, translations, lorem ipsum, emoji... i would like to get it set up on slack for work, better calendar implementation, dictionary/thesaurus

oops didnt finish that sentence... as a natural language command line prompt