jonathan@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jonathan Altman) (04/26/89)
I am currently working on making my Macintosh my "electronic desk." The mac is the one thing in my office I'm guaranteed to look at everyday reliably. I haven't seen a utility to do the one thing I need most right now, however. What I'd like is some kind of init or something that can put up a "to-be-done listing." Rather than stick post-its all over my desk, or keep lists floating around my office, I'd like to just be able to, any time I come up with a task that needs to be done later, just add it to a list that automagically appears each time I turn my Mac on, kind of like my desktop were a memo board or blackboard. Here's possible solutions I've thought about, and their feasibility. 1. Some kind of scheduling utility like "remember." I've looked at Remember and it's nice at keeping track of appointments, it seems. But if I have a task that I want to be reminded of everyday until I do it, Remember doesn't seem to do as well. It prints out that item EVERY day, so that I see the same item listed seven times. I just want one "memo" board that lets me put up un-time-specified things to do. 2. Use DeskPict (I have a SE/30) and edit the deskpicture file. This is great except that I have not found an easy way to get text into "grayview" documents, nor even to edit these documents easily. Neither Retouch or Grayview seem to have any capability of handling text. Another application that generates Grayview docs and deals with text might work, if anybody knows of one. 3. Use a utility on sumex archives called "Reminder 1.01." I tried this but couldn't get it to work correctly. There was supposed to be a way to get the application to let you enter a message, but I think this program either doesn't understand the ADB keyboard correctly or runs fast enough on my SE/30 that I can't get the key combination fast enough that would allow me to edit a message. What I'd really like would be if I could just draw on my desktop, then I could just edit my desktop whenever I needed to (that's what I do to my real desktop, and if Apple can add a bitmap editor to Hypercard, they can add it to the Finder), but an elegant way to accomplish #2 above or some utility that accomplished #1 with a relatively unobtrusive window would be nice. Any suggestions out there? Anybody interested in a quickie programming task (this might be a little out of my league)? Please post or e-mail as you see fit-I'll see it either place, I leave the choice of adding to news traffic to others. I will summarize e-mail if people ask me, and response warrants. Jonathan Altman jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.edu Database Administrator (linus,harvard,decvax)!dartvax!eleazar!jonathan Dartmouth Dante Project voice: 603-646-2633 301 Bartlett Hall also try: jonathan.altman@dartmouth.edu HB 6087 Hanover, NH 03755
bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) (04/26/89)
In article <13223@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jonathan@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jonathan Altman) writes: >I am currently working on making my Macintosh my "electronic desk." >The mac is the one thing in my office I'm guaranteed to look at >everyday reliably. I haven't seen a utility to do the one thing I >need most right now, however. What I'd like is some kind of init or >something that can put up a "to-be-done listing." Rather than stick >post-its all over my desk, or keep lists floating around my office, >I'd like to just be able to, any time I come up with a task that >needs to be done later, just add it to a list that automagically >appears each time I turn my Mac on, kind of like my desktop were a >memo board or blackboard. One utility to check out is Comment 2.x, from Deneba Software. This nifty little program allows you to set up time reminders (similar to Smart Alarms) which will appear for time-sensitive tasks (appointments, etc.), or create a "to-do" list composed of lots of notes viewed globally. As well, Comment gives you the ability to apply an electronic Post-It(tm) note to documents, spreadsheet cells, etc. All in all, a very handy utility in that it's both easy to use and versatile. I'm not associated with Deneba in any way other than as a satisfied customer, but I think they have one of the most consistently useful product lines in the software business. John Heckendorn /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarnet |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 | | (415) 549-2684 | |
bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) (04/27/89)
> What I'd really like would be if I could just draw on my desktop, > then I could just edit my desktop whenever I needed to (that's what > I do to my real desktop, and if Apple can add a bitmap editor to > Hypercard, they can add it to the Finder), but an elegant way to I love this!!! Why not? Hell, I don't want to pop up a DA or launch an application just to see simple jottings (e.g. notepad). Just give me a pencil, eraser, box tool, text tool, and I'm in great shape. Apple, please do this!! > [...] > Jonathan Altman jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.edu > Database Administrator (linus,harvard,decvax)!dartvax!eleazar!jonathan > Dartmouth Dante Project voice: 603-646-2633 > 301 Bartlett Hall also try: jonathan.altman@dartmouth.edu > HB 6087 > Hanover, NH 03755 Scott Bayes