Comments on: Just Do It!

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:09:11 +0000

Those are indeed interesting ideas – but currently, there is no time in my day to work on iCalFix in any way, shape, or form. So I’ll actually be open sourcing it fairly soon. (Some minor cleanups in the code base, then I should be good)

By: Quoc-Quang SRENG

Quoc-Quang SRENG — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:07:25 +0000

Hello Robert

I found your post while googling about iCal plugins.

My idea was to put other panels under the task list. I would find it usefull to have an event list just under the task list: might come in handy when using day view, week view or even month view. Have a direct sight on what’s coming. One would tell me that using alarms and reminders are the most efficient way to deal with it, but hey why not ? Same for the adress book with the most recent active people, an adress book panel just under the task list could be convenient.

In a nutshell, just customizable viewers of your data that can be displayed and moved on the iCal window. For instance I want to create a new viewer, data = contacts, filter(active = last month), This one I place just under the tasks. Another viewer, data = events, filter(start = next 2 months)…

What would you think of that ?

Don’t worry I’m not “asking” you to code that just wanted to share ideas. That’s how world improves, doesn’t it ?

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By: Kerry Sanders

Kerry Sanders — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:50:43 +0000

Great post! I often find myself getting distracted with other things while trying to work at my development job. I do not focus like I should. There are also so many things running around in my mind that I would like to do, but I just haven’t sat down and started the tasks. I need to just do it!

By: Meitar

Meitar — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:18:33 +0000

It sure does – I just have to watch myself. Sometimes I put already done tasks on the list, just so I can put the little checkmark there

Hah! Looks like we should all start a support group if you ask me.

Anyways, great post! I’ve recently gone on a productivity kick myself, and between really organizing my workspace, avoiding distractions like constant email checking, I’ve already seen quite the improvement. The only challenge remaining is setting task time completion goals. But I’m getting there. Really.

Again, great post.

By: Tracy Snell

Tracy Snell — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:28:08 +0000

I’ve been itching to try Cocoa coding to do the same thing. Got any tips on how you wedged into iCal?

By: Darren Chamberlain

Darren Chamberlain — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:23:48 +0000

It sure does - I just have to watch myself. Sometimes I put already done tasks on the list, just so I can put the little checkmark there.

I do this all the time, partly for joy of "completing" the task, but also because it provides comprehensiveness to the list -- I can look back at it and see all the things that I did. I don't remember which ones I wrote down after the fact and crossed off immediately.