[original post below] I built my own calendaring system using 'rage and a few simple scripts. I, too, love the idea of a one-app holy grail of a personal info manager, and 'rage does a fantastic job of it.
I wrote a script called "Postpone/Delayed Send" that does most of the heavy work. With PDS, I can take any message and make it disappear for a certain amount of time, or until a specified date. I use it to track projects, make reminders, and time my dealings. I open a new draft message, enter whatever I want to remember (like take flowers to my wife, drain the water heater, drop a reminder to a client about something, whatever), then run another script called Save to Current Folder, which saves the draft as if it were an incoming message (keeps it from showing up in the bold counts in the folder list). Then I postpone it, for example, 3 weeks after the last time I took flowers to my wife. It disappears for 3 weeks, then reappears in my Inbox. So my inbox becomes the place I look for reminders and stuff to do. I handle medical histories, inspirational messages, pretty much anything I want like this. It's more day-based than time-based, so if there's something I have to do at a particular time, I use a freeware timer called "Pester" available at versiontracker. (I can send you the scripts I mentioned above if you're interested, or you can probably find them at applescriptcentral.) HTH. - Bryan > After 13 years of being married to a paper Franklin Planner, and a few > attempts at moving to a digital calendar/reminding system, I visited a > friend this past weekend, and saw him work iCal like a Command Center For > Life. I was blown away how he used it to brainstorm his week, set > reminders/timers, look over his whole year as a perspective, etc. I was > green with envy! > > I'd always thought that if I did eventually move to a software day planner > system, I'd use the one in Entourage. There's something about "seamless > integration" that is like a holy grail of computing to me. But I have to > admit, my few feeble attempts at working with it never felt easy. It didn't > feel like a program to use for seeing the big picture. > > So now I want to ask you eRage experts: to those who fully use a software > day planner in OS X, what program are you using? Even more, can you give me > a sense of how you are using it? For instance, if a friend calls you and > tells you to call him at 2:30pm, what keyboard/mouse actions do you do that > quickly set up a timer/reminder? Or, at the beginning of the month (or > week), how to you view "your life" via your calendar system? Also, if you > have switched to iCal, is there any 'seamlessness' that you left behind by > having your Address book/email program on one app, and your calendar/life > planner on another? > > When I was on top of my Franklin day planner, it felt as if, every time I > was using it, it was the Command Center of my goals and dreams. After seeing > my friend work iCal, I want to get back to that feeling again. Thanks for > any input. > > Scott > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
