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

I got into OmniFocus for some time, but now I just use macOS' own Reminders app and a sheet of paper.

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.

i use omnifocus. i love it

I'll check that out again. I remember thinking it was more than I needed.

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.

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

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.

I use a notebook and the "bullet journal" method and it definitely works for me

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.

just when I get excited to give Things another go it keeps crashing.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.)

i'm glad I didn't stick with it then!

wasn't omnifocus bundled with OSX back in the powerPC days?

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

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

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.

In conjunction with a todo.txt

sorry, used 'conjunction' incorrectly. You know what I mean, though

wasn't omnifocus bundled with OSX back in the powerPC days?

― 龜, Monday, August 7, 2017 12:12 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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).

sold

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.

https://shawnblanc.net/2014/03/history-of-omnifocus-for-mac/

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

> 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.

(btw, I get a script busy warning when opening the fold in this thread, something about link skimmer. Sounds a bit suspect)

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?

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

Yeah Mail works fine.

As a gmail user I still just use mailplane.

I haven't uninstalled Go for Gmail yet. Doesn't mean there's not something better out there.

Looking for something that only shows desktop notifications for mail in my primary gmail folder. And oh, those notifications must be able to span my half-dozen spaces, not just the one the app is running in.

Being using Spark, I like it for managing personal accounts

i've finally gotten off my lazy ass and installed a password manager (dashlane, in my case). it is a pain in the ass to go through all of my passwords and change them and synch them up, but so far i feel like dashlane is making it about as easy as it can be.

anyone else use it? if so, i'm wondering what happens when the 30-day free trial ends (i know i'll be able to keep using the desktop/chrome extension as normal, but it'll stop syncing with my iphone? but if does that, won't that mean that i'll be totally screwed whenever trying to enter any password on my phone?)

Why did you choose Dashlane instead of more well-known ones like LastPass, KeePass, AssPass etc? What made you settle on this one? Asking for "a friend".

honestly i just read read a little bit of the recently published WIRED set of articles on security (https://www.wired.com/2017/12/digital-security-guide/), and in the password manager article they hyped dashlane, 1password, and lastpass. of the three, dashlane seemed to have the best "free" plan, and was the only one of the three that seemed practical to use for free in perpetuity. i might be wrong about that, though - that's why i was unsure about how it syncs up with my iphone after the 30-day period passes. if it turns out that i do have to pay, though, it's only a few dollars a month. i'm happy to add that small amount to my VPN monthly payment to give me a little peace of mind.

btw is AssPass real? looooool

for some reason i always quote "the password is assward" like it's from some famous movie or something, but now it's happening in real life!

I don’t feel like mingling my work and home ones so I use Apple’s stuff at home and my group has a shared keepass one at work

pro tip: apple doesn’t have a standalone password lookup app on iOS but it’s in the settings app

With great regret I have to inform you AssPass is not real (yet!), rather a figment of my questionable imagination. But if you want to B in BzNzz, I'm positive that as partners we can get billions of $$ in S1l1c0n V4ll3Y for our amazing start up.

"At AssPass, we care about security. That's why we don't store all your passwords in some silly crypto-code thingy (lol nerds), but in a place where no-one will ever find them, let alone hack it: in our asses. Your passwords will be drinking tequila's by the pool and having a blast playing Marco Polo with other safe passwords, all secure and tranquil, in the one place where the sun never shines. AssPass: We really take security seriously. We take your passwords in the ass."

"We put the ASS in password" probably a better tag line

(ty for the wired link for real btw :)

loooool

you'd think i'd raise an eyebrow at AssPass, but no, seemed legit to me!

I use 1Password and more or less endorse it. I don’t have a subscription though; I bought full versions of Mac and iOS apps before that was a thing.

i have 1passwd too and it is great, or at least it was until a recent version wanted me to sign up for some cloud thing that i totally didn't want but seemingly had to use in order to get it working on my work computer, but i managed to install an older version (6 i think) and now it works just fine w/my dropbox like it always did and yeah, no subscription. i got kinda shook by the weirdo cloud rigamarole thing though

Hey, I have a somewhat basic Mac IT question, but does anyone know if the new OS is okay for a 2012 Macbook?

I'm using it on a 2011 mini so I'd expect so