20 Aug 2007

Gettin' Hitched

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By now the news is out and I’ve received a deluge of email asking for details, so here they are. For those that don’t have the 43folders RSS feed piped directly into a neural connection and haven’t yet subscribed to the Omni blog as penned by the lovely and talented Linda, here’s the scoop: After over a year of collaboration I’m officially joining The Omni Group!


13 Jul 2007

Vaporize The Unwanted (Kinkless iTunes 1)

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Feeling less than literate? Eyes tired of all those “words” and “letters”? Me too, so I made a screencast that you can jump to now.

In this article I’ll be showing you how to easily clear your library of unwanted tracks using a custom Applescript and Quicksilver trigger.

Like many of you, I’m a keyboard junkie. I listen to music all day and I’m constantly switching between shuffled and non-shuffled play, skipping tracks and repeating them all without lifting my hands from the keyboard. There are a lot of apps that do this but I am partial to Quicksilver’s iTunes plugin when used with key-combo triggers. I’m not going to explain how to set this up (see MacApper for a nice run down similar to the basics of what I’ll describe here).


9 Jun 2007

Getting Things... Remembered

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For those that spurn the written word, there is also a screencast at the end of this article.

We spend all this time and effort figuring out ways to get things out of our heads and into our trusted systems. We’ve offloaded the memorization of telephone numbers to our mobile phones, driving routes to GPS units and friends’ birthdays to our calendar applications.

But some things belong inside our heads.

With all this focus on getting things off our minds, what do we do about getting things back in? Where’s Getting Things Memorized?

Am I the only one that feels like, despite freeing up all this mental processing power with all these clever applications, my memory is still getting worse?

In this post, I’ll talk about a new application that tackles this head-on.


21 May 2007

Five Steps to a Kinkless Desktop

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This is the introduction to a five part series on how to clean up, prettify and streamline the usage of your desktop.

How did it come to this?


15 May 2007

Omnifocus in Parallel

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OmniGroup has let Schrödinger's cat out of the bag and put doubts to rest as to whether it exists or not... it definitely exists. With the beta rolling out slowly but surely, I thought it was a good time to release another video showing you some other neat stuff you can do with OmniFocus.

Click below to watch a ten minute video that talks a bit about sub-projects, nesting sequential sub-projects inside parallel parent projects and even briefly demo's how to change styles.

11 May 2007

Hues on First

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Here are a couple variations on colors that I was playing with before... nothing really struck me as "right"... Click each to change the background.

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9 May 2007

Reconstruction

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What a difference a year makes. When I first launched Kinkless.com (before I released kGTD) I had plans for content that I wanted to publish on it. Then I started reading a blog called 43 Folders written by a man some call crazy, others call crazy-making (but all call genius) named Merlin Mann. After reading his classic rant on why you should just switch to a Mac (which I would link to but my google-fu is weak today and I can’t seem to snag it) I did just that.


OmniFocus Presentation

Sun, 2007/01/07 - 12:21pm — Ethan

Ok, not really a presentation of OmniFocus as much as a presentation about… For all you MacWorld attendees waiting to find out more about what’s in store for OmniFocus, the work in progress, etc. there will be a meetup on Monday, 4:30pm at the SF Apple store. I was hoping to turn a work trip into a MacWorld trip but sadly will not be able to (shakes fist at work, then get’s back to work).

While OmniFocus still has some ways to go before beta, it’s already clearly a solid foundation for an incredible product. If you were hoping for kGTD without the sync button and with stability, you’ll see it in OmniFocus. What I won’t mention here (yet) is everything else you’ll be getting. There’s some serious horse power under that hood.

If you’re able to make it, enjoy and give Omni a big round of applause for being such a swell bunch of folks that listen to user’s needs. I’ll miss being there but OmniGroup’s Michelle is going to speak in a lowish voice and wave her hands around a lot to simulate my presence.

As icing on an already delicious cake, Merlin Mann (GTD demigod, rock and roll vagrant) will be there as well to look suave, field questions, etc.


Never get off the boat

Mon, 2006/11/20 - 10:54am — Ethan

I returned last week from something like five consecutive shoots in Cambodia where, shockingly, wifi is scarce. I note two things:

  1. I have several mails from people saying that they bought my software. I hope they didn’t since Kinkless is free (anything this buggy has to be). Please let me know if you see someone trying to scam sell it. That would be bad.

  2. The comment spam has totally gone off the charts. I was trying to keep up with it for a while and clearly it’s overwhelmed everything. Sorry about that. I’ll see what I can do.


Kinkless GTD 0.83 [Relative Motion]

Mon, 2006/03/27 - 4:41pm — Ethan

Fearing that I might be stoned if I delayed any longer (I read The Lottery in high school… I know mob justice when I hear it pounding at my webserver), here’s the all new kGTD 0.83 release. Smell it. I made it smell like new car. Mmmmm. Shake it. I made it sound like an unopened box of cracker jacks, a toy surprise still inside. Except in this case, it’s no toy, it’s lots of new code and, invariably, new bugs. But I hope that the utility outweighs the bugginess.

Note: If you are not feeling up to experimentation, chill for a bit and see where the chips fall after a couple of days. If you are more of a “let’s boldly go” type, then by all means, beta-away.


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