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Voodoopad alternative4/2/2023 ![]() Add it anywhere else, but manually assign the personal tag to make sure it shows up in smart groups targeting “personal”.Add an item to the Personal folder when you import it to have it automatically show up in any smart groups targeting the “personal” tag.This makes adding items to your library and being able to utilize intelligent smart groups much easier because you can either: One of the big reasons to have two root-level groups (aside from making it easy to focus in on those two areas) is that you can use them to automatically assign tags to any item that is added to that group using the Group Info window. Because I’m using two computers, one for work and one for personal use, what works for me is to start with two root level folders (I work for a company called Tierra Interactive you could call the folder “Work” or the name of your employer just as easily):Īs you can see in the screenshot, I’ve opened up the Group Info window (accessible by right-clicking a group and choosing Show Group Info or by choosing File → Show Group Info). You can change how often MobileMe syncs in the System Preferences.Īside from daily logs, whether your scratchpad is useful will rely on how you organize using groups and tags. You’ll have more luck with synching if you sync hourly (or less frequently). If you’re going to be synching your library with MobileMe you may as well turn that on now. I named mine “Scratchpad”, but the name doesn’t really matter. To add and manage libraries, choose Together → Library Manager. To set up your scratchpad, you’ll first need to create a Together library for it (you could use your current library, of course, but you’ll have that much more data to sync). When I’m focused on a task, I rarely remember to switch to my time tracking software and enter details about what I’ve just completed, but adding a line of text to a daily log would be another matter since I could use my favorite tool LaunchBar to easily make a note without switching applications or getting out of the flow. Although his solution wasn’t really what I was looking for, the idea of keeping an easily updated, timestamped log of what I’ve done throughout the day grabbed my imagination. The idea of keeping a daily log is one that I first discovered when Chris Bowler described his custom log file. The second required a bit more custom work. The first is well covered by Together’s built-in tools for capturing files and so forth, complemented by some simple tag-based organizing and a couple of smart folders. Easy storage, synchronization, and retrieval of info.When I set out to build myself a scratchpad I had two things I wanted: ![]() 2009: at long last I’ve published part two of this series describing my VoodooPad-based solution. Despite the shortcomings of its synchronization, however, setting up a scratchpad in Together is extremely easy and for people who don’t rely on synchronization (or perhaps just have better luck with MobileMe sync services than I) Together is an excellent choice for a scratchpad. Together gets almost everything exactly right, but falls short for me thanks to the buggy and error-prone synchronization of MobileMe. Although I have not yet developed the perfect solution, I would like to share my first, somewhat flawed solution using Together from Reinvented Software. How do I track such minor details without wasting time or brain space? The answer, I’ve decided, is that I need a scratchpad: somewhere that I can quickly toss ideas, URLs, and thoughts that will be synchronized between my computers and contains some simple organizational scheme to allow me to easily identify what needs attention.įor the past few weeks I have been investigating software that might serve me as a scratchpad. Sometimes I’ll be off work and see a program that I definitely want to remember to install on my work computer only to start work the next day oblivious. Or maybe I forget to fill out my timesheet details and the next day have trouble remembering what exactly I did all day. Perhaps while at work I’ll see a link on Twitter that I’d like to read on my lunch break but which skips my mind once lunch rolls around. One of the key problems I face every day is that I have two computers, one brain, and a tendency to forget things.
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