Short Subject: Now You're Talking (1927)

prosaic [on email]

Chris Streeter picks up on a thread that I've been thinking about a lot lately (and he's kind to mention the relationship to Inbox Zero).

He reminds us that the etiquette for using a telephone was once well-established enough to earn a place in the encyclopedia:

Etsy :: show me your action list and i will show you my inbox

Awesome.

[via: Kelly Sue]

TaskPaper

Jesse Grosjean from Hog Bay Software has just begun sharing the first releases of a new task-tracking app which adopts a refreshingly stripped-down approach to managing action on a Mac. TaskPaper starts with the simplicity of text files then adds just a bit of Mac magic to make it both smarter and prettier, but without giving up portability and ease of use. Jesse says:

TaskPaper makes it easy to create a list of your projects and their tasks so that you always know what needs to be done. It's simple to reorganize the list, create new items, mark items as done, and delete items that your finished with. You can also assign contexts (such as "home", "office", or "car") to your tasks so that you can later generate lists of all tasks assigned to a specific context.

43F Podcast: Inbox Zero - Google Tech Talk

A lot of folks with slower connections (or who just aren't crazy about internet video) have written to request an audio version of the Tech Talk on Inbox Zero I gave at Google last Monday. Google has very kindly permitted me to share that with you, so here you go. Thanks to everyone who wrote to request it.

Grab the MP3, learn more at Odeo.com, or just listen from here:

• RubyForge: OmniGraffle parser: Project Info - "This project provides a parser that can read OmniGraffle documents and present them to Ruby programs in a convenient way." [via:43f Forum/Carla]
• Comic Book Fonts | Home - "Get as many of our individual fonts as you like for half price through August 6, 2007" Beautiful faces — I want ’em all. [via: Andy Ihnatko]
• ATPM 13.02 - Next Actions: A Survey of the GTD App Landscape - I must have missed this wonderful overview when it came out. Unlike the unholy armies of Digg-alicious GTD listsmiths, Ed annotates his selections with insight and care. Good on ya, Ed.
• Grep in Project command for TextMate - "... combines the speed of grep with a decent, well-integrated UI." [via: twitter/al3x]
• How to Sleep 4 Hours per Night - I really don't get this obsession with wanting to sleep less. It's like wanting less steak or less The Wire or less french kissing. Just lost on me why you'd want to truncate one of life's most sublime pleasures.