On 2003-02-17 03:10, "Bryan Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi bryan, thank you for sharing some inside info in your personal life: >> >>> I wrote a script called "Postpone/Delayed Send" that does most of the heavy >>> work. >> >> I use it every day to, many times a day. >> Especially to help my friends and collaborators not to bother them with >> silly stuff that is more private stuff, I have that delivered after working >> hours, so I don't lure them into a time trap. > > Glad to hear it. I only know (for sure) of 3 people who use it, and I'm one > of them! > I hope/think that is an underestimation... I think your script is used by many many more... And as a matter of fact, I have made a Trainingscourse: "Make Virtual Offices for your Organisation and reorganise in iTeams - for Youth Organisations, NGO's and Non-Profits" What your script does is one of the points that are highlighted - and a standard exam. question. :-) The Trainingscourse has won the [EMAIL PROTECTED] logo from the similarly named project by the European Community and the Directorate for Education and Culture. www.netdayseurope.org The moment we have the first course sold... You can expect some donations for your scripting efforts and those of Paul and some others drop by. We hope you'll be able to survive for another 9 months... >>> 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. >> >> I understand... But isn't making a new calendar event with a time of 1 >> minute and a remind me say, 1d before your wedding anniversary, subject: >> "buy flowers for tomorrows wedding anniv" >> Less difficult ? : Has some check and pop-up menus that make it a bit >> faster? > > Probably for some people. I actually started using this system in the old > OE 5 days, and I've resisted using the calendar. I tried under 'rage '01, > and sort-of got it working, but when I upgraded to X it lost all my calendar > info somehow. Besides, I can do everything with the keyboard this way... Terrible to hear you lost all your calender info... Anyway, above and the ideo of dissapearing messages for a certain amount of time... Sounds like a good excercise for Apple Scripters. -- Sven-Brussels GSM: +32 (0)485/389679 EntX-OSX.2.3.Jaguar-IBook-500MHz-640MB SDRAM-14GB HD-Airport-AZERTY Keyboard -- 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/>
