37 Signals has let slip a cool new demo of upcoming features in Backpack. This will be a major upgrade that includes the ability to drag any page element to anywhere else on the page so you can mix up lists, notes, files, etc. This also means you can drag any list item to any other list. There are also new page separators to help you group items together on a page. All of this is just a portion of the new stuff coming. Let me just say that I can’t wait to see how this improves my using it for GTD and all the other things I use it for (it will do so markedly I suspect). Once released and I have a chance to play with it, I will give a full review right here. Stay tuned…
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Remainders: 10.12.2006
Merlin tries to nail down his five top “no-duh†lifehacks in 300 words. Boy does he seem to nail it on the head.
Giles over at MacDevCenter lays down some smack for the text junkies. Some good text tips here in. It finally got me to give a serious look at John Gruber’s Markdown text formatting wizardry. Once I was able to grok the syntax which was not all that far from Textile which I already knew, I knew I had found nirvana. Using it to write this post right now.
Just after I posted about using Basecamp for GTD yesterday, I jumped over to my feed reader only to discover that LifeDev had also posted on the same subject. They don’t have context hack though. Soylent Green is Contexts!
Lovely Design is aptly named. They have some beautiful paper pr0n. Take this lovely journal made from found paper and envelopes. Every page turn screams possibility.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets
Long time readers know that I am a fairly regular user of Writely, an online web based word processor. Writely allows me to be able to store and work on documents from any computer with a web browser. Well, Writely was gobbled up by Google some months ago. Now, their assimilation with the hive mind is complete and Google has rebranded and merged it with their online spreadsheet tool to give you… Wait for this amazing and catchy name… Google Docs and Spreadsheets.
From the copy:
“If you’ve ever struggled to keep track of different versions of spreadsheet or word processor files sent over email, Google Docs & Spreadsheets may be right for you. Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers.â€
There you have it. Writely users are now redirected to the new URL where they will find all of their documents still just as they left them. They will also find that it is still the same old Writely with the same old features. It is just a little bit more Google in flavor than before.