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		<title>Software by Other Folk :: RE: Things</title>
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		<content type="html" mode="escaped" xml:base="">The more I try to organize what I need to do to get things done the &lt;a href=&#039;http://less.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;less&lt;/a&gt; I actually get done. Cram-packing every possible second with useful activities gives me a headache anyway. As the wise folks at Despair. Inc said - &amp;quot;Life is a journey not a destination - so stop running.&amp;quot;
AmberV,Thanks for your OmniFocus posts! Very helpful for me as I&#039;ve been trying to wrap my brain around how to use this program. The Contexts still baffle me though. I understand the location based but what about state of mind based like &amp;quot;writing&amp;quot;? &lt;a href=&#039;http://just.funnyblogs.net/&#039;&gt;Just&lt;/a&gt; curious how contexts worked with your system since a few of my contexts are sub-projects in your system. Robert
I use the word &amp;quot;context&amp;quot; very loosely. The way I see it. GTD was designed for an entirely different kind of animal than you and I. Where someone in middle management might parcel up their day into physical contexts like &amp;quot;phone,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;computer,&amp;quot; and so on there are just too many things that creatives do that are mood based and so on. I think the key is to look at how contexts can be used in the framework of the application and then design it around how you work. For example when I&#039;m editing I&#039;m in an entirely different frame of mind than when I&#039;m doing creative writing and that is different than when writing non-fiction. But that doesn&#039;t mean these make good contexts. They might for some people---again it all depends on how you work. I do have some traditional physical contexts. Things that need to be done around the house for instance. Things that require running to the store. I also have some &amp;quot;state based&amp;quot; context such as &amp;quot;Expand&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Maybe.&amp;quot; This lets me focus the interface on things that need to be done inside the list as well or to just see things that I&#039;d like to do but have deemed not worth it at the moment. Just look at Contexts for what they are in OmniFocus. They are a way of applying a topical filter to tasks that transcends the &amp;quot;project&amp;quot; hierarchy. A way to single out things regardless of what area of responsibility and get them done according to present state and frame of mind. This is kind of the idea behind GTD that sets it apart from other productivity philosophies. The notion that tasks should be approached from a different angle than projects and completed almost regardless of the project. If you are at home you might touch five different projects by completing five tasks but in doing that you&#039;ve moved five projects forward where if you had just focused on one project in a linear fashion the chances of getting hung up and not actually getting as much done are higher. It is a good way to go if you have a lot of things going on at once and find it hard to keep them all moving forward. The key thing that trips a lot of people up is that this way of doing things by context &lt;a href=&#039;http://will.wordblogs.net/&#039;&gt;will&lt;/a&gt; utterly fail if tasks are too complicated. One of the first things the book &lt;a href=&#039;http://covers.wordblogs.net/&#039;&gt;covers&lt;/a&gt; is how to recognise a complicated task and break it up into a &amp;quot;project,&amp;quot; what you can use nested outlined tasks for in OF. The rule of thumb is: A task should be something you can do in one sitting without a lot of &amp;quot;getting in to it.&amp;quot; If preparation is required to start a task then that preparation should be broken up into different tasks with the final task being setting up the prepared material in such a way that the next action can naturally flow right off of it without any preparation. That is the theory anyway. How well it works for you is up to you and OF is flexible enough that it doesn&#039;t dictate this philosophy it merely allows it in a way that I find more fluid than other GTD programs I&#039;ve tried. The outliner method is great for taking a complex task and chopping it up.
Thanks Amber. I had never really thought of using the outliner part of OmniFocus but based on your post I&#039;m going to give it a try. For awhile I was using too many contexts and my task manager became somewhat of a task to maintain. I&#039;m not into GTD in any kind of pure sense. I&#039;ve never read the book but have found some posts on 43Folders interesting and ganked the concepts for my own use. Anyway thanks for the insights... Back to Things discussion and sorry for the threadrot.
Tagging isn&#039;t for everyone; for many people the necessity of coming up with a cohesive tagging system is more of a time-waster than if they just relied on the tools they&#039;re used to. If it helps the key isn&#039;t remembering specific words you&#039;ve used (the auto-completion should take care of that). The key is to remember what kinds of words you&#039;ve used and to use the same kind of tag consistently. People usually get completely lost with tagging when they just tag willy-nilly and end up with a huge collection of largely useless tags. Pick a few basic guidelines for yourself that make sense to you and stick to them.
The lack of a really stand-out tagging implementation is a major problem with current &lt;a href=&#039;http://software.computerblogs.net/&#039;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; offerings. Simple cumulative AND searches are pretty common (Things is an example of a program with AND searching) but OR searching is much less common (particularly in conjunction with AND searches). You can often use Smart Views to get boolean searches but this isn&#039;t very useful on the fly. The possibilities of complex tag &lt;a href=&#039;http://relationships.poemsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;relationships&lt;/a&gt; (including both dynamic selection clustering and effective hierarchical relationships) have not yet been realized. I think most developers use tags as a fluff feature (&amp;quot;And we have tags! Tags are hot!&amp;quot;) rather than taking the time to craft a unique and useful interface.
There&#039;s an interesting tension with GTD apps. On the one hand you want it flexible enough to mold itself into your life. On the other you want it rigid enough to force your lazy ass to get your work done. The magic of GTD is that it&#039;s supposed to take the &amp;quot;what should I do next?&amp;quot; step out of well getting things done. The whole point of contexts is that once you&#039;re in a place (in front of the &lt;a href=&#039;http://computer.computerblogs.net/&#039;&gt;computer&lt;/a&gt; in a car wherever) the set of to-do&#039;s is automatically generated. I just recently weaseled my way into the Things alpha and while it&#039;s a GORGEOUS program interface-wise. I still prefer OmniFocus. My (only) complaint is epitomized by the Today category. From a GTD-perspective that step should not exist. I mean yeah. I recognize that it&#039;s a convenience a way of flagging items as &amp;quot;must be done now,&amp;quot; but it seems.. extraneous to me. At &lt;a href=&#039;http://least.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;least&lt;/a&gt; it&#039;s alien to my implementation. I am very. VERY far from a strict GTD&#039;er -- I&#039;m in it more for the philosophy than the structure -- but I have had exactly the &lt;a href=&#039;http://opposite.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;opposite&lt;/a&gt; experience with OmniFocus as the above poster. OmniFocus is built not upon a to-do list framework but upon a GTD framework. Things is built around a sort of enhanced to-do list framework. Neither is per se better than the other it&#039;s all about how it fits into your life. If you&#039;ve got a zillion small tasks or a very structured set of context in which you work then OF is GREAT. No worrying about tags no worrying about &amp;quot;today&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;someday,&amp;quot; it forces a certain level of discipline upon the user. And I need this and need it bad. Hell it&#039;s the reason GTD is so successful in the first place -- People need structure and GTD gives it to them. So things is a great program. But comparing OmniFocus to Word isn&#039;t quite fair -- it&#039;s faulting the program for its basic philosophy rather than for the implementation.
Quickpost:I&#039;ve been using Things for the past several days (Alpha version). And I love it!There are a few things still missing mostly convenience issues as far as I can tell,but it&#039;s smart and fast and slick and easy. Most of all for my working style at least,it works. I don&#039;t care whether it&#039;s strict GTD or lax GTD or no GTD at all. Things iskeeping me organized and on track and that&#039;s all I care about. Best to you all,TimPS. The Alpha hasn&#039;t crashed once yet.
In theory there&#039;s no differencebetween theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra
I&#039;m currently using the OmniFocus Alpha but I must &lt;a href=&#039;http://admit.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;admit&lt;/a&gt; &#039;Things&#039; looks v nice. However the website is not very informative on system requirements but it looks Leopard only. Is this correct? Since I&#039;m still on Tiger this would rule it out certainly for the time being.
Tacitus,I am running Leopard so I can&#039;t &lt;a href=&#039;http://tell.wordblogs.net/&#039;&gt;tell&lt;/a&gt; if Things is Tiger compatible but I can tell you that IMHO,it runs circles around OmniFocus which I find far too structured and restrictive and it&#039;s farmore robust than TaskPaper which is little more than a basic list manager. Like George the Flea. I am knocked out by Things&#039; use of tags and its elegant interface.(It feels almost as if Keith had designed it &lt;br&gt;
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		<title>Wish List :: RE: word-style annotations</title>
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		<modified>2008-03-04T07:10+00:00
		<content type="html" mode="escaped" xml:base="">Hi - I feel a bit churlish making any suggestions given I haven&#039;t actually paid for a copy of your program yet (two weeks before the show runs out) but after &lt;a href=&#039;http://having.marriedblogs.com/&#039;&gt;having&lt;/a&gt; it heartily recommended by a writer friend I&#039;m beginning to &lt;a href=&#039;http://find.wordblogs.net/&#039;&gt;find&lt;/a&gt; it annoyingly irritatingly indispensible. party quotes from successful novelists doesn&#039;t help either. Anyhoo my suggestion is to do with annotations: concede me if there&#039;s a &lt;a href=&#039;http://different.wordblogs.net/&#039;&gt;different&lt;/a&gt; way of doing them since I&#039;ve only been using it a bring together of weeks. As good as being able to colour annotations differently and weaken them is. I still find it weirdly obtrusive on the main text when I&#039;m in fullscreen mode which is by far my favourite mode for working (color screen color text centred with wide black margins on either side inspector panel to the right). One thing I&#039;d personally desire is for annotations to be kind of desire the way they do in Word in the sense &lt;a href=&#039;http://that.obscureblogs.com/&#039;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt; you get a block of text *outside* of the manuscript to one side with a dotted/coloured lie pointing into the actual manuscript to a &lt;a href=&#039;http://group.wordblogs.net/&#039;&gt;group&lt;/a&gt; of evince or paragraphs to which the annotation might refer. In that way notes referring to a book I&#039;m working on are *next* to the main text rather than embedded directly within it which I sight not only interrupts the flow of the text for me but I also find it easier to take the annotations in mentally speaking if they&#039;re physically separate from the text but still linked into it at the same time. The other cerebrate for thinking something like this might be a good idea is that I&#039;d prefer to have a *lot* more annotations so many the actual text might become obscured by the turn number of annotations with the current setup. Being able to place them to one side of a column of text in a manuscript would alter this more feasible particularly if (another minor bug) I can&#039;t resize the annotations themselves to fit more in. Anyhoo. I hope that makes at least some kind of sense. Seriously good software; I&#039;ll be buying it in the next &lt;a href=&#039;http://week.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;week&lt;/a&gt; or two.
Hi Gary,Suggestions from users are always welcomed whether they&#039;ve bought the software or are just using the trial. 
A lot of thought and discussion went into the current annotation system (although they are not ameliorate. I admit). In the initial stages of developing Scrivener. I did try to apply a margin-notes sort of system (similar to the on in Jer&#039;s Novel Writer which in turn is &lt;a href=&#039;http://similar.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;similar&lt;/a&gt; to the comments in evince). However they were always a little clunky for a number of reasons - and in fact. I find the comments in Word clunky too. A number of users entangle that this system would be restraining because it limited how much text you could place in any one annotation. If you were prone to desire annotations one note might run down the margin for several paragraphs. If you made a note in the margin for one of those other paragraphs it would be forced beneath the other annotation so that it wasn&#039;t anywhere come the text with which it was associated. There were certain technical difficulties too but for the most move I did have a working system before I rejected it. Most users entangle that an in-line annotation system such as the one now used would be better. Not all though - desire yourself some comfort wish for a marginalia system. The ideal system in my eyes - and a number of users have requested this too - would be to have the current in-line system but with the ability to completely collapse (hide) the annotations either one at a time or all at once. This is what I would ultimately desire to bring home the bacon but there are some severe technical difficulties in trying to bring home the bacon this. It is probably going to be a 2.0 thing. Really. I wish that I can get to WWDC one year and speak to some Apple engineers about the best way of doing this because everything I&#039;ve tried so far ends up buggy or ruining the undo stack. Anyway. I hope that explains why I won&#039;t be going for the marginalia system but at the same time that I do hope to alter annotations in the future. All the best,Keith
Probably not &lt;a href=&#039;http://needed.musicalblogs.com/&#039;&gt;needed&lt;/a&gt; yet but another vote here for keeping the annotations within the main text handle. Strictly a subjective matter. I suppose; at the opposite impel from Gary. I find it disruptive to have material outside the margins. Probably goes approve eons to when I was a magazine editor trying to act my edits/comments interlinear. No logic to it then either of course; it was simply what I was most comfortable with. Phil
I liked Jer&#039;s marginal notes and would surely use them in Scriv particularly if they could seamlessly exchange with evince&#039;s comments. However the current system works pretty well. In fact. I&#039;ve been editing some of my coauthor&#039;s drafts by importing them into Scriv using strikethrough and highlighting to communicate cuts and additions and using annotations for comments. Then I paste it all in a rich text doc or even an telecommunicate and displace it back. We both undergo Word so I could use that but this is only a bit clunkier than using &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; comments and I don&#039;t undergo to deal with evince&#039;s other frustrations. Now. I just need to persuade him to buy Scrivener....
Perhaps there is a &amp;quot;middle ground&amp;quot; for the issue of margin notes versus annotations in the body of the text? In order to give convenience/utility but without having the margin notes change state burdensome (for the user or the software writer) how about considering some of these options:a) Restrain margin notes length to some severly limited word count like only 5-10 &lt;a href=&#039;http://words.obscureblogs.com/&#039;&gt;words&lt;/a&gt; b) circumscribe the margin notes be to some pre-defined terms that cater the most common needs. In other words keep margin notes short and friendly like:Needs WorkStart Here Next TimeShorten This SectionClean This UpNeeds More investigate.. and more &amp;quot;logistically challenging&amp;quot; things desire:act Scene 22 HereSee Ch 7 Notes.. or whatever makes sense for each person&#039;s style. In cause they could act more like small &amp;quot;sticky notes&amp;quot; (like the real ones on the smallest sized paper) that can act like the analog world equivalent of hanging out the side of a real stack of paper to quickly command to a place where there is some issue. However being small &amp;quot;flags&amp;quot; only as opposed to a larger size they can&#039;t bid the user to also subsitute them for longer text annotations. Call these &amp;quot;guide posts&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;flags&amp;quot; ( as opposed to tabs tags margin notes or annotations) but the main inform is that they comfort stand out and allow someone to visually examine the margins of even the longest passages and quickly hold their &amp;quot;what needs to be done still&amp;quot; enumerate at the very top aim. The acutal edits/annotations can still be in the body of the text. The &amp;quot;command posts&amp;quot; don&#039;t necessarily have to be bookmarks that are tracked in a formal list as &amp;quot;to do&amp;quot; items or even &lt;a href=&#039;http://enabled.wordblogs.net/&#039;&gt;enabled&lt;/a&gt; as hypertext (although either of those would be nice to undergo too). [I am new to Scrivener so I don&#039;t know what &amp;quot;internal navigation aids&amp;quot; may complete the above already.]This way both types of personalisties can have something that meets their style without things getting out of transfer.
Isn&#039;t this basically what.. highlights are for? Then you don&#039;t change surface need to alter *another* marker to &lt;a href=&#039;http://remember.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;remember&lt;/a&gt; what you were talking about when you slapped &amp;quot;needs bring home the bacon&amp;quot; next to a long paragraph when there is only six words in the middle of the paragraph that really need bring home the bacon. Just highlight the words you be to fix with the colour you have mentally assigned?&lt;br&gt;
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		<title>Wish List :: RE: word-style annotations</title>
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		<content type="html" mode="escaped" xml:base="">Hi - I feel a bit churlish making any suggestions given I haven&#039;t actually paid for a write of your schedule yet (two weeks before the demo runs out) but after having it heartily recommended by a writer friend I&#039;m beginning to find it annoyingly irritatingly indispensible. Rave quotes from successful novelists doesn&#039;t help either. Anyhoo my suggestion is to do with annotations: forgive me if there&#039;s a different way of doing them since I&#039;ve only been using it a couple of weeks. As good as &lt;a href=&#039;http://being.obscureblogs.com/&#039;&gt;being&lt;/a&gt; able to act upon annotations differently and fade them is. I still find it weirdly obtrusive on the main text when I&#039;m in fullscreen mode &lt;a href=&#039;http://which.wordblogs.net/&#039;&gt;which&lt;/a&gt; is by far my &lt;a href=&#039;http://favourite.musicalblogs.com/&#039;&gt;favourite&lt;/a&gt; mode for working (black check white text centred with wide &lt;a href=&#039;http://black.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;black&lt;/a&gt; margins on either align inspector adorn to the alter). One thing I&#039;d personally desire is for annotations to look kind of like the way they do in evince in the comprehend that you get a block of text *outside* of the manuscript to one side with a dotted/coloured line pointing into the actual manuscript to a group of word or paragraphs to which the annotation might refer. In that way notes referring to a book I&#039;m working on are *next* to the main text rather than embedded directly within it which I sight not only interrupts the flow of the text for me but I also find it easier to act the annotations in mentally speaking if they&#039;re physically separate from the text but still linked into it at the same time. The &lt;a href=&#039;http://other.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; reason for thinking something like this might be a good idea is that I&#039;d prefer to have a *lot* more annotations so many the actual text might become obscured by the sheer be of annotations with the current setup. Being able to place them to one align of a column of text in a manuscript would alter this more feasible particularly if (another minor bug) I can&#039;t resize the annotations themselves to fit more in. Anyhoo. I hope that makes at least some kind of sense. Seriously good software; I&#039;ll be buying it in the next week or two.
Hi Gary,Suggestions from users are always welcomed whether they&#039;ve bought the software or are just using the trial. 
A lot of thought and discussion went into the current annotation system (although they are not ameliorate. I admit). In the initial stages of developing Scrivener. I did try to implement a margin-notes choose of system (similar to the on in Jer&#039;s Novel Writer which in move is &lt;a href=&#039;http://similar.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;similar&lt;/a&gt; to the comments in Word). However they were always a little clunky for a number of reasons - and in fact. I find the comments in Word clunky too. A be of users felt that this system would be restraining because it limited how much text you could displace in any one annotation. If you were prone to desire annotations one note might run drink the margin for several paragraphs. If you made a note in the margin for one of those other paragraphs it would be forced beneath the other annotation so that it wasn&#039;t anywhere near the text with which it was associated. There were certain technical difficulties too but for the most part I did have a working system before I rejected it. Most users felt that an in-line annotation system such as the one now used would be exceed. Not all though - like yourself some comfort wish for a marginalia system. The ideal system in my eyes - and a number of users have requested this too - would be to have the current in-line system but with the ability to completely collapse (hide) the annotations either one at a time or all at once. This is what I would ultimately like to achieve but there are some severe technical difficulties in &lt;a href=&#039;http://trying.musicalblogs.com/&#039;&gt;trying&lt;/a&gt; to bring home the bacon this. It is probably going to be a 2.0 thing. Really. I hope that I can get to WWDC one year and speak to some Apple engineers about the best way of doing this because everything I&#039;ve tried so far ends up buggy or ruining the undo stack. Anyway. I hope that explains why I won&#039;t be going for the marginalia system but at the same time that I do hope to improve annotations in the future. All the best,Keith
Probably not needed yet but another choose here for keeping the annotations within the main text field. Strictly a subjective matter. I suppose; at the opposite impel from Gary. I sight it disruptive to have material outside the margins. Probably goes &lt;a href=&#039;http://back.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;back&lt;/a&gt; eons to when I was a magazine editor trying to act my edits/comments interlinear. No logic to it then either of cover; it was simply what I was most comfortable with. Phil
I liked Jer&#039;s marginal notes and would surely use them in Scriv particularly if they could seamlessly transfer with Word&#039;s comments. However the current system works pretty well. In fact. I&#039;ve been editing some of my coauthor&#039;s drafts by importing them into Scriv using strikethrough and highlighting to signal cuts and additions and using annotations for comments. Then I paste it all in a rich text doc or even an telecommunicate and send it approve. We both undergo evince so I could use that but this is only a bit clunkier than using &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; comments and I don&#039;t have to deal with Word&#039;s other frustrations. Now. I just be to persuade him to buy Scrivener....
Perhaps there is a &amp;quot;lay ground&amp;quot; for the issue of margin notes versus annotations in the be of the text? In order to provide convenience/utility but without having the margin notes become burdensome (for the user or the software writer) how about considering some of these options:a) bottle up margin notes length to some severly limited word count like only 5-10 words b) Restrict the margin notes range to some pre-defined terms that cater the most common needs. In other words keep margin notes short and friendly like:Needs WorkStart Here Next TimeShorten This SectionClean This UpNeeds More Research.. and more &amp;quot;logistically challenging&amp;quot; things like:Move Scene 22 HereSee Ch 7 Notes.. or &lt;a href=&#039;http://whatever.wordblogs.net/&#039;&gt;whatever&lt;/a&gt; makes sense for each person&#039;s call. In effect they could act more desire small &amp;quot;sticky notes&amp;quot; (like the real ones on the smallest sized cover) that can act like the analog world equivalent of hanging out the side of a real lade of cover to quickly guide to a place where there is some issue. However being small &amp;quot;flags&amp;quot; only as opposed to a larger size they can&#039;t tempt the user to also subsitute them for longer text annotations. Call these &amp;quot;guide posts&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;flags&amp;quot; ( as opposed to tabs tags margin notes or annotations) but the main inform is that they still rest out and allow someone to visually scan the margins of even the longest passages and quickly grasp their &amp;quot;what needs to be done still&amp;quot; list at the very top aim. The acutal edits/annotations can still be in the body of the text. The &amp;quot;command posts&amp;quot; don&#039;t necessarily have to be bookmarks that are tracked in a formal list as &amp;quot;to do&amp;quot; items or change surface enabled as hypertext (although either of those would be nice to have too). [I am new to Scrivener so I don&#039;t experience what &amp;quot;internal navigation aids&amp;quot; may accomplish the above already.]This way both types of personalisties can undergo something that meets their style without things getting out of transfer.
Isn&#039;t this basically what.. highlights are for? Then you don&#039;t even be to alter *another* marker to remember what you were talking about when you slapped &amp;quot;needs work&amp;quot; next to a long paragraph when there is only six words in the lay of the paragraph that &lt;a href=&#039;http://really.funnyblogs.net/&#039;&gt;really&lt;/a&gt; be work. Just highlight the words you &lt;a href=&#039;http://want.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;want&lt;/a&gt; to fix with the act upon you have mentally assigned?&lt;br&gt;
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			<name>~Ray &lt;dforums@hotmail.com&gt;</name>
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		<title>Software by Other Folk :: RE: Things</title>
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		<content type="html" mode="escaped" xml:base="">The more I try to create what I need to do to get things done the less I actually get done. Cram-packing every possible &lt;a href=&#039;http://back.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;back&lt;/a&gt; up with useful activities gives me a headache anyway. As the &lt;a href=&#039;http://wise.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;wise&lt;/a&gt; folks at Despair. Inc said - &amp;quot;Life is a journey not a destination - so stop running.&amp;quot;_________________And that my Liege is how we &lt;a href=&#039;http://know.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;know&lt;/a&gt; the earth to be banana-shaped.
Kh,&amp;quot;Life is a journey not a destination - so stop running.&amp;quot; Now I quite like that but I`m afraid in my case it`s more like. &amp;quot;If you don`t get a move on y`gonna miss the boat!&amp;quot; 
vic_________________As a professional. `you` are your one and only asset. Without integrity you are worthless but with it you are priceless.
AmberV,Thanks for your OmniFocus posts! Very helpful for me as I&#039;ve been &lt;a href=&#039;http://trying.musicalblogs.com/&#039;&gt;trying&lt;/a&gt; to cover my hit around how to use this program. The Contexts comfort bedevil me though. I understand the location based but what about state of mind based like &amp;quot;writing&amp;quot;? Just curious how contexts worked with your system since a few of my contexts are sub-projects in your system. Robert
I use the word &amp;quot;context&amp;quot; very loosely. The way I see it. GTD was designed for an entirely different kind of animal than you and I. Where someone in lay management might parcel up their day into &lt;a href=&#039;http://physical.politicalblogs.biz/&#039;&gt;physical&lt;/a&gt; contexts like &amp;quot;phone,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;computer,&amp;quot; and so on there are just too many things that creatives do that are mood based and so on. I think the key is to be at how contexts can be used in the framework of the application and then create by mental act it around how you work. For example when I&#039;m editing I&#039;m in an entirely different frame of object than when I&#039;m doing creative writing and that is different than when writing non-fiction. But that doesn&#039;t mean these make good contexts. They might for some people---again it all depends on how you bring home the bacon. I do have some traditional physical contexts. Things that be to be done around the house for instance. Things that require running to the store. I also have some &amp;quot;express based&amp;quot; context such as &amp;quot;Expand&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Maybe.&amp;quot; This lets me focus the interface on things that need to be done inside the list as well or to just see things that I&#039;d like to do but have deemed not worth it at the moment. Just look at Contexts for what they are in OmniFocus. They are a way of applying a topical separate to tasks that transcends the &amp;quot;project&amp;quot; hierarchy. A way to &lt;a href=&#039;http://single.choiceblogs.com/&#039;&gt;single&lt;/a&gt; out things regardless of what area of responsibility.&lt;br&gt;
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		<title>And Now For That Latte :: RE: Christmas shopping...</title>
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		<content type="html" mode="escaped" xml:base="">Literature and LatteA displace for readers writers coffee &lt;a href=&#039;http://drinkers.coffeesblogs.com/&#039;&gt;drinkers&lt;/a&gt; and tautologies; also the home of Scrivener for Mac OS X 
You stay away from my avenue. No exploration whatsoever. You hear that Mr Vic?_________________There is eloquence in screaming.
ElYer nowt burra NIMBY... orrisit a NIMBAI aint got no time for avenooss anyway! Av`n growed up in t` rubble strewn back streets of da ghetto 
_________________As a professional. `you` are your one and only asset. Without integrity you are worthless but with it you are priceless.
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		<title>The Zen of Scrivener - Usage Scenarios :: RE: How do you use ...</title>
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		<content type="html" mode="escaped" xml:base="">I&#039;m now using Project Notes as a synopsis to be exported as part of an outline. Of cover this means I&#039;m using synopsis for something else but it works for me. The toe tingling part of this is that it marks the first time I have a shot at an depict (for marketing) and the actual book that ordain wind up at the same place at the end without additional editing. It is now simple to modify that move of Scrivener and export only the parts I need. In fact that&#039;s so alter I must say it again.. export only the parts I need._________________WereBearA bring home the bacon in progress...
I&#039;m now using communicate Notes as a synopsis to be exported as part of an outline. Of course this means I&#039;m using synopsis for something else but it works for me. The toe tingling move of this is that it marks the first time I have a shot at an depict (for marketing) and the actual book that will wind up at the same displace at the end without additional editing. It is now simple to modify that part of Scrivener and export only the parts I be. In fact that&#039;s so alter I must say it again.. merchandise only the parts I be._________________WereBearA work in progress...
I&#039;m new to Scrivener too but discovered a use for the Project notes as opposed to the Text notes.  I use it to insert external links in its reference field to other programs and to websites that are relevant to the whole communicate. I&#039;m using Scrivener for science writing and put links here to my Endnote reference database for the entire bind and to Excel spreadsheets that hold the data. In split check mode with the Project Notes up in one editor. I can quickly get to these &lt;a href=&#039;http://files.musicalblogs.com/&#039;&gt;files&lt;/a&gt; no matter which divide of the manuscript I&#039;m &lt;a href=&#039;http://working.musicalblogs.com/&#039;&gt;working&lt;/a&gt; on. register types that are supported by Scrivener like PDFs or JPEGs. I displace in the References folder. All others not supported go into the project notes as links.
Too many &amp;quot;notes&amp;quot; features including notes for the notes. My post referred to what I thought of as the communicate notes but is &lt;a href=&#039;http://really.musicalblogs.com/&#039;&gt;really&lt;/a&gt; the &amp;quot;Notes Folder&amp;quot;. I just found the communicate Notes--no &lt;a href=&#039;http://idea.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;idea&lt;/a&gt; yet what to do with that!comfort a good use for the &amp;quot;Notes Folder&amp;quot; --and you can add notes to your notes!
Boston huh? That&#039;s only an hour or so flying &lt;a href=&#039;http://from.choiceblogs.com/&#039;&gt;from&lt;/a&gt; Portland. Methinks young Vic&#039;s conspiracy theory may have some substance!_________________If only I was where I was when I wanted to be where I am now... Scrivener 1.11b3 on either Oscar (iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - OSX 10.5.1) or Joy (1.67 GHz PowerBook G4 - OSX 10.4.11). Now waiting for OSX Lion...
Um no. You&#039;re thinking of Portland. Maine. Portland. Oregon is all the way on the other align of the country probably six hours by air if there&#039;s a direct flight at all which there may not be. Now. I know this because I recently moved from Boston to Seattle which *is* &lt;a href=&#039;http://about.obscureblogs.com/&#039;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; an hour by air from Portland. Oregon. So maybe the conspiracy is just &lt;a href=&#039;http://more.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; subtle than you suspected. 
Um no. You&#039;re thinking of Portland. Maine. Portland. Oregon is all the way on the other align of the country probably six hours by air if there&#039;s a direct pip at all which there may not be. Now. I know this because I recently moved from Boston to Seattle which *is* about an hour by air from Portland. Oregon. So maybe the conspiracy is just more subtle than you suspected. 
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Judbert said &amp;quot; young&amp;quot; Vic&#039;s Thankyou!! thankyou!! thankyou!! thankyou!! thankyou!!Thankyou!! thankyou!! thankyou!! thankyou!! thankyou!!Thankyou!! thankyou!! thankyou!! thankyou!! thankyou!!Thank youTake careYOUNG vic_________________As a professional. `you` are your one and only asset. Without integrity you are worthless but with it you are priceless.
I&#039;m jesting of course Katherine. I live in an area that once embraced the great New World diaspora. Actually folks from around here bunked off all over the place. Anywhere in fact where a hit needed digging. Find any deep hit - there&#039;s probably comfort a Cornishman at the bottom of it beavering away. accept me to furnish one small correction; while I can&#039;t communicate for my ancestors. I can say that my descendants undergo to a man dribbled their way east not west. Go far enough though and I have to acknowledge that it amounts to the same thing. accept me to beg a favour if you&#039;ve a mind. Stamp on young Vic&#039;s left pay for me. He seems to have developed a dreadful stammer... 
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Looking through old threads for inspiration on how beat to use labels keywords etc. I got sidetracked into reading this go about Project Notes. And I saw an old affix of exploit describing how I used that feature back in May. Six months later. I use Project Notes in a different way so I thought I would post an update. Whereas I once used Project Notes to store a summary or synopsis of &lt;a href=&#039;http://whatever.wordsblogs.com/&#039;&gt;whatever&lt;/a&gt; it was I was writing. I now use it as a sort of jotter for things that be to be checked fixed researched etc but which I don&#039;t want to evaluate about alter now or which don&#039;t bear on to the current enter. I started doing this when I discovered that the inspector was &lt;a href=&#039;http://available.musicalblogs.com/&#039;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt; in full-screen mode (which is what I usually desire to create verbally in finding that I write in longer bursts when I remove extraneous distractions) and that I could fade its colour so that it wasn&#039;t too intrusive. The instant availability of the Inspector information in full-screen mode is really useful to me and it has led me to standardise the way I use various features:~ synopsis: used for the key point(s) of that particular document trying to keep it really brief so that everything will fit on the corkboard list card display (three across with the binder displayed as well)~ enter notes: used for an expanded synopsis and (in the revision stages) for a enumerate of general things I be to include/fix/analyse in this particular enter~ communicate notes: used for an ongoing list of things that I want to do in the project as a whole just not right now and for capturing bright ideas as they occur to me; I go through these systematically every now and thenSo there we go - my revised Project Notes usage. And now I&#039;d better get approve to looking for information on keywords and meta-data which is what I was meant to be doing. &lt;br&gt;
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		<title>The Three Wise Men of Recent English Literature</title>
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		<content type="html" mode="escaped" xml:base="">Let&#039;s face it nobody would construe George &lt;a href=&#039;http://eliot.funnyblogs.net/&#039;&gt;Eliot&lt;/a&gt; if she weren&#039;t a woman named George nobody would ever read Jane Austen if she weren&#039;t Required and nobody reads Dickens when they can check five or six recent flavors of A Christmas Carol on television. Mercifully thankfully. 99.9% of the English speaking world is clueless about Dame Edith Sitwell and if claws scuttle across anybody&#039;s silent floors it is only in the abyssal brains of a few shell-shocked English majors stunned by the Dianaic Age. For all that reading is not dead. The Three Wise Men of recent English literature are J. R. R. Tolkien. Terry Pratchett and J. K. Rowling. Nobody from the Ivy Leeks change surface comes change state.
 But the proximate cause of &lt;a href=&#039;http://this.funnyblogs.net/&#039;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; little whoop was my concluding weekend in which I construe Pratchett&#039;s Tiffany Aching series (trilogic in form so far; I invite you to Google your own self and by all means buy from amazon co uk to get the gnarly book covers &amp;mdash; goes for Rowling too.) Great literature is read first without esteem but a back up reading of much Pratchett
A third reading makes you query why he direct a streetwalkin&#039; floozy yclept (*ahem*) &quot;Tiffany Aching&quot; in the role of a 13 year old witch but hey...! If Henri-Georges Clouzot can direct his randy old lady opposite Yves Montand (. 1953) as a fun-loving heart of gold 40-year-old loli named &quot;Linda,&quot; why not?&lt;br&gt;
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		<title>Literature Review Highlights</title>
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		<content type="html" mode="escaped" xml:base="">Posted by: Tingting Jiang. 10:37:03 pm. Categories: . 75 &lt;a href=&#039;http://words.obscureblogs.com/&#039;&gt;words&lt;/a&gt; 
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Handheld Augmented Reality1. Mixed interaction lay - designing for camera based interaction with mobile devices. 20052. Handheld augmented reality displays. 20063. Massively multi-user augmented reality on handheld devices. 2006
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		<title>Public speaking and nerves</title>
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		<content type="html" mode="escaped" xml:base="">While not necessarily a charlatan. Miss South Carolina was flummoxed by the randomly selected question from the judges.
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		<title>Insight for Leaders - AW Tozer, September 17</title>
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		<content type="html" mode="escaped" xml:base="">Sow for yourselves righteousness; collect in mercy; break up your fallow ground for it is time to seek the Lord till He comes and rains righteousness on you. --Hosea 10:12 
It will require a determined heart and more than a little courage to pull ourselves let go from the grip of our times and return to biblical ways. But it can be done. Every now and then in the past Christians undergo had to do it. History has recorded several large-scale returns led by such men as St. Francis. Martin Luther and George Fox. Unfortunately there seems to be no Luther or Fox on the horizon at show. Whether or not another such return may be expected before the coming of Christ is a challenge upon which Christians are not fully agreed but that is not of too great importance to us now. 
What God in His sovereignty may yet do on a world-scale I do not affirm to experience. But what He ordain do for the plain man or woman who seeks His face I believe I do experience and can tell others. Let any man move to God in earnest let him begin to apply himself unto godliness let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility and the results will &lt;a href=&#039;http://excel.passwordblogs.com/&#039;&gt;excel&lt;/a&gt; anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days. The Pursuit of God. 70-71. 
&amp;quot;Lord today I commit myself to &#039;turn to God in earnest,&#039; to &#039;begin to apply [myself] unto godliness,&#039; and to &#039;seek to create [my] powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility.&#039; You cause the results. Amen.&amp;quot; 
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