thats neat but I'd rather have a freestanding app to be able to do it before iTunes.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 7 August 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
if you're willing to install lame you can set up an action with automator, e.g. start from this and add a delete file step http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867/easily-convert-audio-files-to-mp3-on-mac-osx
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 7 August 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Not so little a hoonja-doonja, but: best free or cheap photo-organizing apps that outperform Photo (not hard, I guess)?
― ljubljana, Monday, 15 August 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-photo-management-solution/ has some ideas
but i use a mixture of lightroom and just the finder, which is fine for certain defns of "organizing"
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 15 August 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
Interested in how you mix using Lightroom and the Finder: I find that once you use LR you really need to avoid doing anything to do with photo management in Finder.
― Alba, Monday, 15 August 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
yeah, they are independent "libraries". family photos goes in LR, specific projects go in directories (but that's only because i do more post stuff on family photos etc. than on work projects). i should probably just use LR for everything.
but don't underestimate the finder. for smallish libraries and with big preview icons it can do the job.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 15 August 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
caek... praising finder... ?
― ιΎ, Monday, 15 August 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
I like Lyn a lot for picture organizing - http://www.lynapp.com
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
ban the finder
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
thanks Elvis!
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 02:46 (seven years ago) link
I am looking for some kind of collaborative mind-mapping / information-sharing / learning type tool, not quite sure what I would like it to do but I like Mindlyapp for Ios a lot, and imagine something like that but web based and more for collaborations or a small group of people to share. Any particular recommendations for something like this?
― saer, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
Mindlyapp is out for Mac now, I hadn't realised that. No collaboration stuff that I can see, unfortunately
― stet, Thursday, 8 December 2016 12:06 (seven years ago) link
What are people doing for to-do lists/task managers etc? Once Wunderlist added sub-tasks I was really happy with it and it was the only one I liked. Now it's being killed so I'm looking at alternatives. Test-driving Todoist, Things 3 and Any.do and pretty much hate them all.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 August 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
I used Trello for a short while. It's good, but I found that I generally don't have big TODO-lists (except at work, where we use Jira and Youtrack. I greatly prefer the latter) so now I simply use a piece of paper...
― Rimsky-Koskenkorva (Γystein), Sunday, 6 August 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
what's happening to wunderlist?
― The XX pants (ledge), Sunday, 6 August 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
nm found ithttps://www.wunderlist.com/blog/your-preview-of-microsoft-to-do/
― The XX pants (ledge), Sunday, 6 August 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
I got into OmniFocus for some time, but now I just use macOS' own Reminders app and a sheet of paper.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 August 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
Stuff like trello is too project management task oriented
I may try building my own in Airtable. If you haves used Airtable it's the diy database spreadsheet we've been waiting for.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 August 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
i use omnifocus. i love it
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 6 August 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
I'll check that out again. I remember thinking it was more than I needed.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 August 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
it's carefully put together as a product, not bloatware like evernote or something, but it is "professional" software so it may be. it also forces you to manage your todo lists in a certain way, which may not be your cup of tea. also it's $$$. it's the best though imo.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 6 August 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
i use things 3 for basic daily to-dos like chores and stuff
i use omnifocus for tracking complicated work projects
the one task manager i tried but didn't like was todo
― the late great, Sunday, 6 August 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
i wonder what you don't like about things 3, dan.
i will say that omnifocus is definitely the most intuitive in terms of just entering things and moving them around, but it has a lot of options. too many options.
― the late great, Sunday, 6 August 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
I use a notebook and the "bullet journal" method and it definitely works for me
― gbx, Sunday, 6 August 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
something about the way Things 3 depends on "lists" and tags bugs me, kind of similar complaint re todoist. looking again, I can get Things to work pretty much like Wunderlist but not completely. It was really perfect. Each list in wunderlist has multiple To-Dos. Each To-Do has subtasks, notes, files, comments due date etc.
So for me lists were things like Work, and the to-dos were specific projects, and the subtasks were the details and also a place to keep notes and attachments.
In things The todos can have notes and checklists, which is kind of like a subtask I guess.
I just downloaded omnifocus and I think it's probably way more than I need but I'm curious so I'll check it out.
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 August 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
just when I get excited to give Things another go it keeps crashing.
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 August 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
I replaced Wunderlist with Remember The Milk, after a while with Todoist. They're pretty close, but if I wasn't also using Windows suspect I'd be with Things
― stet, Monday, 7 August 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
I use 5iler. It's basically just a text editor, in your browser, or as a Mac app. It's customisable and syncs cross-platform through Dropbox. It's not snazzy in the least but that's why I like it.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 7 August 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
my work group was doing well with project tracking until we all nearly completely stopped using it after our last project cycle ended. I've created maybe a couple work items, but that's about it
this isn't a mac question but while we're on the tracking topic, does anything really integrate with Jira or should I just get better at creating my own views?
― mh, Monday, 7 August 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
5Iler looks cool, not what I need though. Similarly, used to have Notational Velocity which is great, but got confusing when an alt version was made.
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 August 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
nv hasn't been updated for like 6 years, so it's no longer confusing.
(although i am a bit nervous at the slow pace of updates on nvalt. i think they had trouble making it work for the last macos release.)
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 7 August 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
i'm glad I didn't stick with it then!
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 August 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
wasn't omnifocus bundled with OSX back in the powerPC days?
― ιΎ, Monday, 7 August 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
apple bundled a bunch of omni apps with the more pro models (powerbook, not ibook) but I think it would have been omnioutliner because omnifocus maybe came later
― mh, Monday, 7 August 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
the omni guys had some of the better os x apps in the early days because they had written software for nextstep
I still use omnigraffle as my main drawing program---it's good for the kind of math figures I need
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 7 August 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
Not Mac specific, but if we're talking about to-do lists and gtd (ugh) apps, I like https://ticktick.com enough to pay for it.
― Dan I., Monday, 7 August 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
In conjunction with a todo.txt
― Dan I., Monday, 7 August 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
sorry, used 'conjunction' incorrectly. You know what I mean, though
― Dan I., Monday, 7 August 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
wasn't omnifocus bundled with OSX back in the powerPC days?β ιΎ, Monday, August 7, 2017 12:12 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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no iirc a demo of omnioutliner was.
omnifocus came out of someone writing an insane amount of applescript to turn OO into a task manager. that package of scripts was called kinklessGTD (lol).
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
sold
― ιΎ, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
TickTick looks p neat. Though I always have to laugh at the "it only costs a cup of coffee per month" advertising. It always makes me think: "Well, if you put it that way, I'll take the coffee."
Will try the free version.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
https://shawnblanc.net/2014/03/history-of-omnifocus-for-mac/
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
Just switched from ticktick to Trello--WAY better, but I'm afraid of Atlassian shutting it down some day!
Trello's so much better I feel like I just rebooted my entire life
― Dan I., Wednesday, 27 September 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
> anybody run xscreensaver on their mac? if so, how does the gleidescope module look?> Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 10:04 (eleven years ago)
I now have a Mac at work and can answer my own question. It looks OK. The way he's implemented the image picker means you can't use the hidden option to get it to generate geometric shapes for you (and i can't find a file that would let you specify options manually). But pointed at a folder full of nice Bosch images it's fine.
― koogs, Thursday, 28 September 2017 04:50 (six years ago) link
(btw, I get a script busy warning when opening the fold in this thread, something about link skimmer. Sounds a bit suspect)
― koogs, Thursday, 28 September 2017 04:52 (six years ago) link
I've been using Thunderbird for years to manage work and personal email accounts (both gmail), but it's getting really slow. What is everyone's preferred email client for Mac? Should I go with Inbox?
― WilliamC, Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
Airmail is pretty decent
Probably challops but if I had to make a decision today I'd start with the built-in mail client for a while and then ditch it if it's not a good fit
― mh, Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
Yeah Mail works fine.
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
As a gmail user I still just use mailplane.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link