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Comment on Death to Sapling by Will Kistler

Will Kistler — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:06:10 +0000

Thanks for the plug.

Sorry to see the blog go, but still I’ll be following you through the other social networking channels. Perhaps for a name for the next incarnation instead of Design Sapling you can have a title like “User Interface @#$%@ Redwood. BLAOW!” Just a suggestion.

Comment on Death to Sapling by Mike Waling

Mike Waling — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:46:20 +0000

Hopefull you’ll still be “blogging”! And when do you take the GRE?

Comment on View one of my Presentations! by Design Sapling » Blog Archive » Suddenly Popular

Design Sapling » Blog Archive » Suddenly Popular — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:40:27 +0000

[...] while back I posted a presentation about web semantics I presented to my office [...]

Comment on A To-Do List You Can Forget About by Design Sapling » Blog Archive » Design Seed: Email Enhancements

Design Sapling » Blog Archive » Design Seed: Email Enhancements — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:52:56 +0000

[...] A few months ago, I wrote about how to use Gmail as your To-Do list. [...]

Comment on A To-Do List You Can Forget About by Design Sapling » Blog Archive » Design Seed: Cooper’s Thinking Outside the Box

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:09:48 +0000

[...] short follow-up to the To Do list article. Cooper (an interaction design firm) has some interesting ideas on email [...]

Comment on A To-Do List You Can Forget About by Design Sapling

Design Sapling — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:40:59 +0000

Gmail just added a “Task” list, a windowfor task items, each of which can be given an expiration date. I take my “Next Actions” from my To Do list and send them to the task list just to have a convenient list for the day. You could use the “Task” list without using any other feature I talked about and it’d be fine, but using the GTD plug-in for Firefox, the color-coded Gmail labels, and the Gmail “Quick links” makes it really easy to keep work and home separated.

When you install the GTD plug-in, you’ll see that it divides your Gmail labels into 4 categories:

“References”
“Context”
“Projects”"Actions”

For “Context”, I have Home, Office, Education, Leisure, and Parties. For Reference, I have Funny (for joke emails I liked), Receipts, Subscriptions (for newsletters or digital magazines), and Reference (for things I may need to refer to later, like passwords). All my emails I don’t delete get at least one of those labels. If I ever want to find a funny email someone had sent me long ago, it’s super easy to just bring up the Funny emails and find it even if I forgot the subject of the email.

If it’s for a specific project, I of course add a Project label.
If it’s something I will have to act on, I give it an action label, which effectively makes it a part of my To Do list.

Comment on A To-Do List You Can Forget About by Alan

Alan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:05:41 +0000

I might have to look into this combo. I use outlook at work, which is sufficient. but at home, I don’t really have a calendar set up, but have been wanting one. It would be good for scheduling bill payments, my vacation/holiday days, and facebook events.

Comment on A To-Do List You Can Forget About by Design Sapling

Design Sapling — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:23:35 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Reverend! Hope it works out for you too.

Comment on A To-Do List You Can Forget About by Will Kistler

Will Kistler — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:34:46 +0000

Good post. I’ve been trying to organize myself lately in a way that requires minimal effort but still keeps all the info I need within arms reach. The tools you suggest here look like they should very helpful.

Comment on Google Chrome by Design Sapling

Design Sapling — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:28:11 +0000

The sites were probably made to support IE, (which means they won’t work with standards compliant browsers like Firefox or Chrome).

I do a lot of work for the state DOT, which only uses IE 6, so some of my pages don’t look right in Firefox or Chrome either. But that’s just because, to make sites look right in IE, I have to make them the wrong way (or put in the time to make them work in both, which can be a pain.)

Anyway, I recommend getting Firefox. It’s more stable than Chrome and faster than IE.