1/29/2024 0 Comments OmniGraffle Pro instaling![]() ![]() ![]() I just need to sell my children first.Omni Group recently updated OmniGraffle, its workflow diagramming app, to version 6.0. It could really do with a web version which echoed your tasks online, but that’s on the roadmap, so for now I’ll forgive.Īny on your list? Things I’ve missed that could knock my choices off my top 5…? If you’ve tried online task tools, you’ll be surprised how much better a lag-free desktop tool is for quickly sketching down ideas or tasks. But then you realise it’s something pretty special. The first time you try it, you think – “well hey, nothing special” or (if you’re me) “desktop app? Soo last year darling.”. If instead you’re looking for a tag-centred task-list which doubles as scratchpad, ideas register, GTD dashboard and reminder system, give Tudumo a whirl. If you want to continue with slow, clunky, inflexible, shortcut-less control of some corporate, creativity-free nastiness, then carry straight on. But the fact of the matter is, if you haven’t tried Tudumo, you’re just simply not going to get it. Yes, I know it all integrates with email, contacts, calendar, yada yada. I get a fair amount of stick in the office for this one. The latest stuff (forms for spreadsheets – genius!) and the Google Visualization API reading data straight from your documents just keeps pushing the boundary so much harder and further than the other contenders in this space. It’s another Gmail and just continues to get better. Chuck in easy re-sizing for emailing files, XML output, online galleries, tagging, yada yada PC only (although I might have read somewhere that it’s coming soon for Mac?) – just simply the best image management system bar none. For spam protection, labelling, search, 6Gb+ storage, functionality, mobile access….no other contenders. I’m not going to go on about it here – you’ve all heard of it, you’ve probably tried it and with any luck you’re also using it too. Head, shoulders and several entire bodies above the rest. Oh, and did I mention it also provides mobile access…? In fact, you’ll never use a keydrive again. Never again will you get to work and think “arse, I left that document on my home PC”. Never again will you arrive at conference and find your keydrive can’t be read. You install a client on each machine (PC or Mac), choose which folders to sync. ![]() SugarSync does the same thing for files and folders and it is utter genius. I’ve tried a bunch of other tools but GBS is low-impact, easy to use and does what it says on the tin. Google Browser Sync (FF only) keeps your history, passwords, open tabs, bookmarks synced across any browsers that you install the extension for. I can’t even begin to explain the positive impact both of these tools have had on my working life. Syncing = Google Browser Sync and SugarSync (£various) All of them have fought against others in the same space, and won (for now…) – they simply do what I want better than anything else I’ve tried.ġ. And make no mistake, each and every one of these tools has emerged (following the try-it-out approach above) as the current leader in a harsh and crude evolutionary race. That’s another topic altogether, though.įor this post, I’ve chosen the top five applications I use every day – the ones that make a real difference to the way I work. In fact, it’s so important I reckon it lies somewhere near the heart of the whole problem with IT. The distinction between invaluable and merely exciting is an important one. ![]() Usually I manage to avoid things that really aren’t any of the above and frankly shouldn’t ever have happened in the first place but every so often these feature too. It very quickly highlights the things I really can’t do without as opposed to the things that are really exciting but not actually of much use. Quite apart from the fact that Windows hates this kind of behaviour and my Gmail account is now full of endless newsletters from Yet Another Damn Web Service, this is actually a very valuable exercise. Apart from the obvious psychological weirdness of this (please still be my friend), it also means I am constantly installing, un-installing and otherwise evaluating whether tool A or website B actually does anything of any use. I am reasonably sure (I have absolutely no way of telling) the number of alpha/beta sites I’ve joined is in its hundreds. The word serial shouldn’t actually be underestimated here. More likely, it’s the realisation that I personally use IT tools in several different modes, and that understanding these modes is increasingly important to the way I evaluate new systems, paradigms and technologies.įirstly, I’m a serial tryer-outer. Maybe it’s a puritanical precursor to some kind of horrific mid-life crisis which will see me going nuts and buying cars, motorbikes and a Macintosh Air*. I keep having moments of needing to consolidate and simplify. ![]()
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