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Trick: Backpack Plus (100pages) - 1st month Free (Calendar coming soon)
faxxy | Jul 23 2006
For those wanting to see if Backpack is a fit for GTD and/or organizing, here's a trick to get Backpack Plus (100 pages at $9/month) for free the 1st month (btw, they're releasing the backpack calendar soon, according to Jason Fried after the Bezo announcement: "We should be launching the Backpack Calendar next week"): Go to http://backpackit.com After signing up (or if you already have an account), click on Account and then upgrade to [="4"]Basic[/] plan (remember: Basic) and enter your card info and this $5 coupon: JMPEZ7XDKT (You can only use the coupon once and it is subject to change or termination without notice - if it expires, then the upgrade won't go through anyway so you won't be charged... and it works as of July 23, 2006) The coupon covers the Basic plan. Next, upgrade to the Plus plan. You will not be charged for a month. I find the 100 pages (versus 25) gives me the freedom to really put it to the test for all my stuff. Demo of upcoming backpack calendar: http://www.37signals.com/svn/images/bpcalteaser.mov
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 Wow. The demo of the...Submitted by writerati on July 24, 2006 - 3:39am.
Wow. The demo of the Backpack calendar is freakin' amazing. I've been using Backpack for a while, and I've been keeping track of my calendar by periodically dumping a plain-text version of my schedule to it as a note. Ugly, sure, but it works. (for the curious: I have an Applescript that grabs the next month's worth of events from my Palm Desktop calendar, creates a remind file based on these, builds an ASCII remind calendar from this file, then emails it to my backpack) That movie has me drooling, though. I'd love to be able to drag-and-drop appointments, set repeating events, and categorize things. I'm just hoping they'll roll out an API for Backpack calendar as well. I'd love to be able to sync it with other PIMS, send events to it from Quicksilver, etc. » POSTED IN:
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