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5 Amazing Mac Apps for Getting Things Done

GTD (Getting Things Done) isn’t new and neither is Leo’s conclusion, but it is a conclusion I, in part, agree with. GTD is a powerful process and task management framework but I find most applications that are based on that framework too time and energy consuming. Granted, their purpose is to manage tasks and processes, but my job is to actually complete the tasks.

But then again, I am the kind of person who when having to use butter instead of margarine I feel the need to shout, “Why are you resisting me!!?! Why don’t you want to spread?”. (more…)

With the recent updates I’ve done to the site’s design and content, I’ve decided to write a few posts on design progressions, plugins used and that sort of thing.

This site is powered by WordPress. I’ve tried Textpattern and MovableType, but not well enough to say which is better. I’ve just always enjoyed the way WordPress works and looks, and it’s pretty easy to customize.

At the moment I’m only using two plugins

• cformsII
• Recent Comments Widget

I have yet to browse through all the available and recommended plugins. These two are just ones I managed to find when piecing together this site’s initial structure and functionality.

The colour scheme will probably change before I’ve declared the site ‘complete’, but I’d like to add that a brilliant website for getting colour palettes (and colours, and pattens) is www.colourlovers.com. I could spend hours changing all the swatches in a design I’ve done!

Okay. Done! Hopefully I’ll get some time this weekend to tinker around and do more work on the site.

How inevitable…

Okay, okay… the site isn’t quite complete yet, but putting it live in the state that it’s in pushes it up a few notches in my todo list. Hopefully I won’t find more important things to do. Like, you know, growing a mustache, or making a killer compilation CD, or playing old 8-bit games, or making long lists of things I could be doing…

…I make no promises.