Re: Thanks for pointers to OmniFocus, Eagle Filer

[Dennis]

On May 7, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Rhet Turnbull wrote:


On May 7, 2008, at 3:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The killer feature for me at this point would be to be able to  
access and edit my text notes on my iPhone.


While it's not as ideal as a native solution from BareBones, you  
might want to look at Webjimbo:http://flyingmac.com/webjimbo/


The thing I don't like about a web-based solution for the iPhone is  
that network connectivity isn't always available, and when it is, it's  
often on the slow side. It works in a pinch, but a native iPhone app  
would be preferable.


An iPhone version of OmniFocus is supposedly already in the works.  
Yojimbo is a different kind of app, with different resource  
requirements (i.e. potentially very large databases), but one can hope  
we'll see something for the iPhone as well.


At the risk of swerving too far off topic, I'll also mention that  
OmniFocus can, indeed, export as plain text using the TaskPaper  
format. It also prints nicely to PDF, which is then easily mailed to  
yourself as a read-only reference from an iPhone. I suppose the same  
could be done with select Yojimbo items.


-Dennis

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Re: Thanks for pointers to OmniFocus, Eagle Filer

[Rhet Turnbull]

On May 7, 2008, at 3:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The killer feature for me at this point would be to be able to  
access and edit my text notes on my iPhone. If


While it's not as ideal as a native solution from BareBones, you  
might want to look at Webjimbo: http://flyingmac.com/webjimbo/


Cheers,
Rhet



> Sounds like you need OmniFocus.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm surprised I didn't know about it, as  
I have and love some of their other programs. I've downloaded it  
and will take a look. One thing I saw in the description that was  
attractive to me is that you can email a note to yourself and have  
it added to OmniFocus automatically. Very cool. Now that I've  
swapped my old Palm for an iPhone, I find myself emailing notes to  
myself a lot and then processing them when I get back to my laptop,  
because it's the easiest way to get them into my system.


On the other hand, I also want to find a way to get my lists from  
my laptop onto my iPhone easily (and hopefully not stashed in the  
notes box of a dummy contact, which is the only way I know to do it  
at present -- so it takes a slightly annoying number of taps to  
access information that ought to be closer at hand, and it really  
sucks aesthetically). Doesn't say on the website if OmniFocus can  
export current lists as text files; it would be a plus for me if it  
does.


I'm a bit leery of buying specialized software for something that  
is essentially list-making and that I'm not really feeling any  
problem with how I'm handling now; but maybe if it makes some of  
the "bookkeeping" element of it easier, might be worth it. I'll  
take a look when I have a little time.


Thanks also to whoever mentioned Eagle Filer, which I hadn't heard  
of before either. I'm kind of tired of spending money on more note- 
organizing programs, though, so unless it has a very clear  
advantage to me over Yojimbo I can't see myself switching yet  
again. Already gone through iOrganize (liked its simplicity, but  
absolutely no response to repeated email messages about a license  
I'd paid for not working, so that left a very bad taste), SOHO  
Notes (runs slow when it gets full, and I've lost important notes  
twice now through its bugginess), Circus Ponies NoteBook (which I  
love and still use for a few particular applications), maybe some  
others too that I'm not thinking of just now. Nested folders isn't  
enough of a make-or-break issue for me to go through the process of  
transferring all my notes yet again to a new system, nor do I want  
to lose .Mac syncking, which *is* halfway to being a make-or-break  
issue for me these days.


What I'm leaning toward right now is going back to what I was doing  
for a while, exporting my notes for completed projects as text  
files and keeping them organized that way. Not ideal, but keeping  
my list of collections and the drop dock more manageable seems more  
important than the few seconds it'll take me to re-import the files  
if I need them again.


The killer feature for me at this point would be to be able to  
access and edit my text notes on my iPhone. If Yojimbo doesn't  
develop a way to do that, and a similar program does, I'll be  
tempted to switch. Add in .Mac syncking and I'll be *very* tempted.


Scott Marley

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Thanks for pointers to OmniFocus, Eagle Filer

[dsm101]

> Sounds like you need OmniFocus.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm surprised I didn't know about it, as I  
have and love some of their other programs. I've downloaded it and  
will take a look. One thing I saw in the description that was  
attractive to me is that you can email a note to yourself and have it  
added to OmniFocus automatically. Very cool. Now that I've swapped my  
old Palm for an iPhone, I find myself emailing notes to myself a lot  
and then processing them when I get back to my laptop, because it's  
the easiest way to get them into my system.


On the other hand, I also want to find a way to get my lists from my  
laptop onto my iPhone easily (and hopefully not stashed in the notes  
box of a dummy contact, which is the only way I know to do it at  
present -- so it takes a slightly annoying number of taps to access  
information that ought to be closer at hand, and it really sucks  
aesthetically). Doesn't say on the website if OmniFocus can export  
current lists as text files; it would be a plus for me if it does.


I'm a bit leery of buying specialized software for something that is  
essentially list-making and that I'm not really feeling any problem  
with how I'm handling now; but maybe if it makes some of the  
"bookkeeping" element of it easier, might be worth it. I'll take a  
look when I have a little time.


Thanks also to whoever mentioned Eagle Filer, which I hadn't heard of  
before either. I'm kind of tired of spending money on more note- 
organizing programs, though, so unless it has a very clear advantage  
to me over Yojimbo I can't see myself switching yet again. Already  
gone through iOrganize (liked its simplicity, but absolutely no  
response to repeated email messages about a license I'd paid for not  
working, so that left a very bad taste), SOHO Notes (runs slow when it  
gets full, and I've lost important notes twice now through its  
bugginess), Circus Ponies NoteBook (which I love and still use for a  
few particular applications), maybe some others too that I'm not  
thinking of just now. Nested folders isn't enough of a make-or-break  
issue for me to go through the process of transferring all my notes  
yet again to a new system, nor do I want to lose .Mac syncking, which  
*is* halfway to being a make-or-break issue for me these days.


What I'm leaning toward right now is going back to what I was doing  
for a while, exporting my notes for completed projects as text files  
and keeping them organized that way. Not ideal, but keeping my list of  
collections and the drop dock more manageable seems more important  
than the few seconds it'll take me to re-import the files if I need  
them again.


The killer feature for me at this point would be to be able to access  
and edit my text notes on my iPhone. If Yojimbo doesn't develop a way  
to do that, and a similar program does, I'll be tempted to switch. Add  
in .Mac syncking and I'll be *very* tempted.


Scott Marley

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