Tiny update for ToodleAir, but I think it will help out a lot of people who forget the triggers. A help menu has been added that will show each trigger and what it does along with examples. I also fixed the issue where if you had your context’s set with @ (like @work), ToodleAir would show it as @@work
If you can’t see the flash installer above, click here to install the app.
You will need Adobe Air, which you can get here
This is my first attempt at a Mac app using Python (with pyobjc). It is a simple menu bar application that will give you growl notifications whenever you get new mail from Outlook Web Access. For those who’s company uses outlook, but you use a Mac at work, you will understand my pain. No Outlook for the Mac and Outlook Web Access does not notify you on new emails. This little app will at least notify you of the new emails (via growl and an alert sound), but you will still have to use OWA to read the email. I’ve only been able to test this at my work, so please let me know if it doesn’t work with your work’s version of OWA.
Another new release of ToodleAir. The Adobe Air 1.5.1 broke some of the auto complete code, so this release fixed that and a few other bugs.
Please let me know if, when you click one of the triggers, the auto complete menu shows up or not.
If you can’t see the flash installer above, click here to install the app.
You will need Adobe Air, which you can get here
Just pushed up a new version of ToodleAir. We’re at 0.20 now. 0.19 was pushed out a few days ago, but didn’t have anything worth posting about. 0.20 on the other hand is a pretty major change (at least visually). As you can see from the screen shot, I’ve changed the look. I started to get sick of the old design, it was too mac-y. This one is slightly less mac-y. Another pretty major change is I got rid of the menu on the right (I know, it was confusing anyways). Now to Logout or to make ToodleAir on top, all you have to do is press the ` key and you’ll see a menu of actions to choose from. This menu will grow as the product’s features increase.
If you can’t see the flash installer above, click here to install the app.
You will need Adobe Air, which you can get here
I recently subscribed to Safari Books Online, which allows you to read a limitless number of technical books for a single flat rate. It’s a great service, but the web interface is lacking usability. Being a web developer and a constant perfectionist, I decided to fix a couple of their problems with a greasemonkey script. This greasemonkey script does a couple of things that I think Safari Books should have offered (unless I missed something). First, it allows you to go to the next and previous pages without clicking your mouse. Press the j key for next and k for previous (only reason I picked those is because I’m so used to Google Reader and vim). The other thing it does is a better full screen display. If you press the f key all the junk that you don’t need when reading a book disappears, if you want the junk back, press f again.
You can install the script by clicking here
Comments? Ideas?
I use ToodleDo a lot. It basically manages my life, but one thing that is missing from ToodleDo is folder categories. I’d love to be able to group all my personal folders, my python project folders, my client folders and then my job folders. Enter greasemonkey for Firefox. Greasemonkey is great if you want to add some functionality to a site without having the creator of the site make any changes. I’ve created a greasemonkey script that will allow for folder categories. To make this work, though, requires some, not very intuitive, actions. I’ll try to walk through the process, but first, I’ll show you the outcome:
You need to install greasemonkey, to do that, click here. Once you’ve installed greasemonkey, you can now click here to install ToodleDo Folder Categories. (This has also been tested and works using Fluid)
Ok, now for the fun part. To configure Folder Categories, you need to go to your folder management page. To add a category you need to use a special syntax. Lets say you wanted to add a category called Projects. To do that you’ll need to add a folder called “z* Projects pr” (no quotes). I know that looks a little funky, but it was done that way for a reason. The z* is so if you alphabetize, your categories will show up on the bottom. The next part is Projects, which is the detailed name of the category (it can contain spaces). The final part, pr, is the key that you use to map your other folders to a category (it can be whatever set of characters you want without any spaces in between). So lets say you had a project called ToodleAir and you wanted to map it to the Projects category, you would rename that folder to be: “ToodleAir pr” (no quotes). The script will go through and grab the last two characters (plus a space in front) and see if they match any project category defined. Make sense? I know it’s a little odd to do it this way, but without ToodleDo adding the functionality, this is the best I could come up with. So basically, you need your folders to be like this (order doesn’t matter):
Install Script (GreaseMonkey or Fluid)
Anybody have any questions, suggestions or issues?
We took a little road trip today, so I had some time to implement a few more features for ToodleAir. You can now set a start date (^) and a note (+) using the special syntax. Here is an example:
Test Task *Personal @home ^Today +here is a note
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You will need Adobe Air, which you can get here
Little update to ToodleAir:
If you can’t see the flash installer above, click here to install the app.
You will need Adobe Air, which you can get here
