Use Remember the Milk and Gmail to auto-capture Ideas Anywhere
I do a lot of teaching and preaching and writing, and often an idea will occur to me at an inconvenient time–that is, when I don’t have pen and paper handy. No problem, though, RTM makes a great idea-catcher! (Ideas can be anything, by the way, like “I need to do such and such of [...]
Getting Things Done (In Prayer)
Now that I am (interim) pastoring at Christ the King PCA I find that I am spending a lot more time in prayer. I also find it difficult to keep track of all that I am praying for, and for how those the situations were resolved.
I started with a pen and paper prayer journal, [...]
How I use drop.io for Sermons, Papers, and GTD
The web service drop.io is an excellent site that allows you to store just about anything you might want—text, pictures, audio, video, phone calls, etc.—in a secure, easily accessible “drop.” This may sound pretty basic, and it is, but what makes drop.io worth your time and attention are all the fancy features surrounding it. Let [...]
Getting Things Done with Remember the Milk
Though the interface is not perfect, online web application Remember the Milk works well for those practicing any kind of “Getting Things Done” methodology. Here is an excellent guide for that.
To integrate RTM with Gmail, Thunderbird, or other services, check out this post.
For those willing to get their elbows a little dirty, you can also [...]
Gmail Adds To-do Lists
Gmail finally has a built in to-do list, a much needed and requested feature. It’s pretty bare-bones, but its there, which is certainly an improvement. You have to enable it through Gmail Labs. From Webware:
Since e-mail is where and how many of us get things done, both in our personal and professional life, why not [...]
Get a to-do List in Gmail
Ever wish Gmail had a simple to-do list? Follow this guide, which describes how to add the services provided by Remember the Milk, a web-bsaed to-do list manager, to Gmail’s sidebar.
I have been a user of Remember the Milk since it was released over a year ago, and it’a pretty powerful stuff. You can tag [...]
Free Office Software: OpenOffice 3.0 Released!
In honor of the release of OpenOffice 3.0 I thought I would make it my first post in the Don’t Pay for Software Series.
What is OpenOffice.org?
It is an office document suite, similar to (but better and free-er than) Microsoft Office or (for those of you who still use it) WordPerfect. Now don’t be nervous because [...]
Back to School Web Apps
Web-based applications are a handy way to stay organized and get-things-done both on and off campus. The advantage of web-based applications is that they are accessible anywhere there’s a computer, and are are usually free.
Here is a list of 10 handy web-apps that are perfect school (and office) needs. A couple are particularly noteworthy: google [...]
Back to School Web Applications
Going back to school? Getting ready for school is more than just pens and pencils nowadays. Summer is the time to take a software/webware inventory. This post offers some advice on web applications that might come in handy. I would only make one change: replace their recommended bibliography application EasyBib with Zotero, which, while not [...]
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