I've got to get organized.
A great line from The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! was when Fendall Hawkins (played by Paul Ford) was yelling We've GOT to get ORGANized!. My situation at work is that I have a linux box on my desk with a window open onto a Windoze terminal server so I have access to outlook. The issue of my organizational abilities is becoming somewhat of a professional issue that my ADHD mind has long resisted. I was told that outlook is more than email and that it's a crackerjack tool for organizing as well. I don't run windose at home at all but they did give me a laptop to be able to connect into. So after that prep work, what do people use to keep organized under linux? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
Google calendar. :-) --DTVZ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
On 8/13/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A great line from The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! was when Fendall Hawkins (played by Paul Ford) was yelling We've GOT to get ORGANized!. My situation at work is that I have a linux box on my desk with a window open onto a Windoze terminal server so I have access to outlook. The issue of my organizational abilities is becoming somewhat of a professional issue that my ADHD mind has long resisted. I was told that outlook is more than email and that it's a crackerjack tool for organizing as well. I don't run windose at home at all but they did give me a laptop to be able to connect into. So after that prep work, what do people use to keep organized under linux? I'd recommend looking at GTD (Getting Things Done) stuff for techniques before you start looking at tools. 43folders http://www.43folders.com/ is a good place to start. http://www.43folders.com/ I like my Palm which I can sync with any computer to backup. I can run that backup read only with an emulator on Linux/Windows/Macintosh if I lose/break my device. I can also still use the software I sync with. Mainly I use it for the calendar and contacts. I sync at work with Exchange/Outlook. I use jpilot on Linux. For my todos, I use postits on a whiteboard. Easy and fast to write down, rearrange, etc. When I finish I can stick them in the done pile. I try to carry a pen notepad around with me all the time. I could use the Palm to take quick notes but the pad is faster, especially for temporary notes. I wish I could have the text digitally; you can't grep dead trees. But at least I have it. I try to put important notes/tips/etc in text files for later. The tools are not important, the techniques are. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote: Google calendar. :-) Second for google calendar. If you want a way to sync it with whatever you use locally check this out: http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/index.html I've been using it with Apple's iCal with great results. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] SLUG/Durham / Mon 13 Aug TONIGHT / Panda3D - Simulating worlds in real-time
What : Panda3D - Simulating worlds in real-time Date : Mon 13 Aug 2007 *TONIGHT* Time : 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH For the August 2007 SLUG/Seacoast/UNH/Durham meeting, there will be a presentation on the Panda3D 3D engine. === About Panda3D === Panda3D (http://panda3d.org/) is an Open Source 3D engine -- software that lets you model a world, and then render it in real-time on a graphics display. Think Doom or Half-Life. It was originally developed by Disney for their massively multi-player online game, Toontown, so it's got real capabilities. They released it as Free Software in 2002. Carnegie Mellon University and Disney now manage the project jointly. The project emphasizes a short learning curve and rapid development. Panda3D supports the C++ and Python languages, runs on Linux and Windows, and comes with models and artwork to get you started. There is also a library of documentation, sample code, and full projects online, along with what appears to be a reasonably active web forum. === About SLUG === SLUG is the Seacoast Linux User Group, and is a chapter of GNHLUG, the Greater NH Linux User Group. Rob Anderson is the SLUG coordinator. SLUG meets the second Monday of every month, same time, same place. You can find out more about SLUG and GNHLUG at the http://slug.gnhlug.org/ and http://www.gnhlug.org/ websites. Meetings take place starting at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all. The meeting proper ends around 9ish, but it's not uncommon to find hangers-on there until 10 or later. They take place in Room 301 (the third floor conference room), of Morse Hall, at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
Steven W. Orr wrote: So after that prep work, what do people use to keep organized under linux? For me, It ain't the tool; it's the craftsman wielding it. Time Management for System Admins by Tom Limoncelli (O'Reilly), ISBN 0-596-00783-3 $24.95 and 200 pp, is the last of a long series of books I've used to help me get focused and organized. Everyone seems to have a system that works well for them. I use a paper Day-Runner; batteries never run out, can use it in bright sunshine, travels easily, works offline when broadband isn't available, interoperable with a great many pens, pencils, sticky notes and crayons. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:58:27 -0400 Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a paper Day-Runner; batteries never run out, can use it in bright sunshine, travels easily, works offline when broadband isn't available, interoperable with a great many pens, pencils, sticky notes and crayons. I like the little Moleskine notebooks which have an elastic to keep closed. As Ted says, there are many advantages to having something at hand for taking notes and recording thoughts on paper. -- Ed Lawson Ham Callsign: K1VP PGP Key ID: 1591EAD3 PGP Key Fingerprint: 79A1 CDC3 EF3D 7F93 1D28 2D42 58E4 2287 1591 EAD3 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
Tom Buskey wrote: I'd recommend looking at GTD (Getting Things Done) stuff for techniques before you start looking at tools. I agree: http://www.davidco.com/what_is_gtd.php I also recommend David Allen's book: http://davidco.com/store/product.php?productid=16182 Regarding tools, I use the following: - Sunbird to remind of meetings and appointments while at work. - A paper wall calendar for meetings and appointments while at home. - Thunderbird folders and tags to track things that need future action. - A wiki for long-term TODO/WishList. - The occasional paper TODO list for short-term actions. Larry ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Facebook group
Hello Everyone, The NPR analysis was completely hilarious and really on target. LinkedIN is the place to be on the professional side of things and I highly recommend it. I wish the spent more time listening to the needs and wants of the user base but I think they are getting better - slowly. As an open networker I would be happy to have any of my fellow FOSS friends add me or just get in touch. http://www.linkedin.com/in/evolutionaryit [NPR study on class-ism in Networking said Facebook was for recent college grads and college students; MySpace is for musicians and highschool students. Elsewhere, Club Penguin is restricted to under-18's, and LiveJournal is largely SciFi/Goth/other alternatives.] LOL!!! Thanks and have a good one, ~~~ Joseph Guarino www.evolutionaryit.com Evolutionary IT - Best Practice IT(tm) 888.404.5074 (Office) 617.953.9514 (Mobile) ~~~ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
On Monday 13 August 2007 09:17, Steven W. Orr wrote: A great line from The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! was when Fendall Hawkins (played by Paul Ford) was yelling We've GOT to get ORGANized!. So after that prep work, what do people use to keep organized under linux? My needs have been crafted to be quite different from those of most people, but some parts may be of use. The best personal information manager I ever had was SideKick for Win3.3/95. It came with the WordPerfect office suite. (The later SideKick versions stunk.) I have been trying to piece together the functionality I miss from Linux utilities (mostly KDE). For regular warnings, such as Its Monday, pay the bills or Only one week until wife's birthday or MerriLUG notice due, I use Kalarm. It pops up on screen. For ToDo lists, I find Knotes easiest to use. Two lists serve my purposes best, personal and company. The entries are numbered in sequence (forever): ###. and ###). Click in the date when ToDo added. Transfer (drag) the item to KOrganizer Journal when done. KOrganizer has been getting better over the years, but still doesn't fit all my needs. The ToDo facility is fair, but I like the informality of Knotes better. Knotes is much closer to scribbling a list on paper. I don't bill by the hour, but keeping track of whose job I am working on is important for long term records and bidding estimates. A recurring one hour meeting in KOrganizer serves as a marker and shows up nicely on the monthly calendar. The KOrganizer format accommodates job keyword, contacts, description, etc. The hour of the day doesn't matter; I just put the first at 8AM, second at 9AM, etc. I rarely work on more than 2 tasks at a time. The recurrence for this misused one-hour entry is set to indefinite. I enter skipped days or terminate the task as appropriate. What about telephone calls? Hate them. I insist on email. There is no record of what was said on the telephone. The parties can come away with completely different impressions of what was agreed. Email, FAX, or real letters solves that problem. Meetings? Hate them. For year I have been stubbornly refusing to travel. If people feel it in absolutely necessary to talk in person, they are welcome to visit. Coordinating meetings? The few meetings that I am willing to attend certainly won't start without me, so I let the rest of them worry about schedules and conflicts. * * * * * * For those who are wondering what such a grouch does for a living, I do fixed-price instrumentation design and product design. Since nobody else (that I have heard of) takes on the fixed-price risk, I can call the shots. When my career started, I quickly found that being a slave to the telephone, meetings, or the calendar destroyed my productivity. I need uninterrupted time to get into things deeply enough to do my best work. You might be the same. If so, free yourself of all unnecessary communications. And yes, stay very, very organized. Jim Kuzdrall ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Facebook group
On Aug 12, 2007, at 13:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so where do the Boomers or old Guys go? Golfing. Somebody needs to get cracking on hooking up openID to these sites - I've got a separate account with separate contact graphs on each! -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
On Aug 13, 2007, at 09:17, Steven W. Orr wrote: So after that prep work, what do people use to keep organized under linux? I'm leaning heavily into emacs with a series of 'todo' files - just plain text. ctrl-s (search) lets me jump around in them. I'm just getting into GTD, but so far the best idea is to keep all of your stuff in one place. I recently renamed my 700-item InBox '__DMZ', which I'm slowly going though, but the idea is to 'stop sucking'. Since then, I've committed to keeping my InBox empty every day, as often as possible. If there's something I need to do, it goes onto the todo list, not sitting in the inbox. That way it's in the same place as everything else. I got a Fujutsu ScanSnap scanner to scan all my paper into one place for processing. So far, that world and the todo list aren't merged, but I hope they might be some day. I've used a Moleskine pad for a year and a half, but I've been historically bad about offloading its contents onto the todo. Another place I need to 'stop sucking'. The 43folders guy gave a techtalk @Google on 'inbox zero' that was worth watching. The best thing is to use the system that you'll actually use. Anything else is just a waste of time. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Re: Facebook group
Okay, so where do the Boomers or old Guys go? Second survey ... ToastMasters marketing public shared MindMap [http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/1599833] lists under Social Networking the PR opportunities of Xing (video or what?) Viadeo (?) Linkedin FaceBook Hi5 (?) flirckr MySpace Ziki (a people-search; like Spock only earlier?) -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[OT] Re: I've got to get organized.
On 8/13/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A great line from The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! was when Fendall Hawkins (played by Paul Ford) was yelling We've GOT to get ORGANized!. Aside from the map-folding scene (no line), my favorite is Ev-er-y-one to get from Street with Boris Badenough accent. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
Time Management for System Admins by Tom Limoncelli (O'Reilly), ISBN 0-596-00783-3 $24.95 and 200 pp, is the last of a long series of books I've used to help me get focused and organized. Excellent. Can work for programmers too with adaptations. He gave several talks in N.E. a couple years ago, and a NJ group put his talk on the web as a Flash movie. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
Time Management for System Admins by Tom Limoncelli (O'Reilly), ISBN 0-596-00783-3 $24.95 and 200 pp, is the last of a long series of Voted LOPSA's (first ever) Book of the Month http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2005/12/lopsa_book_of_the_month_time_m.html Author's Wiki for the book http://wiki.everythingsysadmin.com/twiki/bin/view/TM2SA/WebHome Website for his other prizewinning [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8679] book is http://www.everythingsysadmin.com/ My notes on mixing Outlook/Exchange (required for group scheduling at my $DayJob office) and a 3-ring half-sheet (Classic) binder http://www.diyplanner.com/node/1016 at the website that lets you download MODIFIABLE PDF's to make your own forms (in variety of sheet sizes and formats) http://www.diyplanner.com/ BTW, even Tom will tell you that David Allen's GTD book is worth reading too, but if you're a techie, you'll find Tom's interpretation closer to your life than the mid-mgt/exec view of Allen's books. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
I like the little Moleskine notebooks which have an elastic to keep closed. As Ted says, there are many advantages to having something at hand for taking notes and recording thoughts on paper. Moleskines or any other leather-bound, archival acid-free paper notebooks are great for notes or sketches I'm going to keep forever. There's always a reporters-flip smallest moleskin in my vest if my formal notebook (either Dayrunner type for business or large archival for fun) isn't with me. But for day/week/month calendars that I'm going to file and maybe never look at again, sewn signatures isn't what I want. YMMV. Thanks to the 43F Wiki's Pens that work with Moleskines pages, I found the Lamy Safari, a fountain pen with very smooth extra-fine nib that works well on smaller pages of nice paper, like Moleskines or Classic or Junior notebooks. I'm glad my office stocks good quality paper in the printers. [See other post in thread for how I print my own diary pages.] -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: I've got to get organized.
43folders is a good place to start. There's a side-wiki there that's excellent, and lots of other resources there too. http://www.google.com/search?q=43Folders [Not to be confused with 43Things which is list-sharing, rather different.] And then there's the hints site http://www.lifehacker.com/ I have 43F, wiki.43F changes, and lifehacker in my RSS feedreader, plus Tom L (TM4SA author)'s O'Reilly blog [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/feed/31?format=rss2au=2176]. Of course, if I really wanted to be time efficient, I probably wouldn't have Instructables, Make:Blog, Cool Tools, ToolMonger in the same folder ... -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
