Fwd: Newbie - Please Useage senarios

[Curtis Clifton]

Just realized that I sent this to David, but not the list...

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> From: Curtis Clifton <curt.clifton at mac.com>
> Date: December 18, 2004 10:55:07 AM CST
> ...
> David,
>
> On Dec 18, 2004, at 9:07 AM, David Read wrote:
>
>> I have only been using OmniOutliner a few weeks. and would be grateful
>> for ideas as to what you use it for. I have Internet purchases set up
>> and another for software registration.
>
> This should be interesting.  I look forward to reading what others are 
> using OO for.  Here are a few of the things I have outlines for:
>
> - Dissertation notes
> - Tracking hours spent and tasks completed on various projects
> - Tracking status of job applications
> - Collecting information about advertised jobs and the advertising 
> institution
> - Meeting agendas and notes for committees on which I serve
> - Getting Things Done support (based on a fabulous personal 
> productivity book of the same name, by David Allen)
>     - Weekly and Monthly review checklists
>     - "Ticklers", items that I need to do something with at some point 
> in the future, checked periodically
>     - Monthly and long-term goals
>     - "Someday/Maybe" list, ideas for things I'd like to do or try 
> sometime (ranging from specific research projects, to books to read, 
> to hiking the Pacific Crest Trail)
> - Checklists for packing for trips (business trips, camping trips, 
> etc.)
> - Notes on wines that I've enjoyed (or not)
> - Gifts given, gift ideas
>
> That's just a sampling.  (Hmm, looks like OO is enabling my 
> anal-retentive lifestyle. ;-)
>
> One thing I haven't yet switched to OO for is managing my list of 
> things to do.  I use Life Balance from Llamagraphics for that.  It 
> provides a basic outline view of tasks and a task list view that is 
> filtered to just show what can be done next.  It also has filtering by 
> place.  So I can see at a glance what tasks I need to do at the 
> office, or errands I need to run around town.  LB also syncs with Palm 
> OS handhelds, though I abandoned my Palm once I got a PowerBook and 
> iPod.  Unfortunately, the user interface for LB seems very clunky to 
> me--even more so as OO becomes more elegant.  I keep trying to script 
> OO to provide something like the task list view, but haven't succeeded 
> yet.  I'll make another attempt using OO3 when I can free some time.  
> I'm hopeful that the new item IDs in the AppleScript interface will be 
> of some use.

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton