Todd Mundt

Michael Gorsline at GTD Times has an excellent post that addresses a sticky issue for many who use GTD - either religiously or agnostically: priority.
Many GTD-type software programs allow users to assign a priority to a to-do item. Gorsline argues (persuasively, in my opinion) that hard-assigning a priority to individual tasks doesn’t take into account [...]

The iPhone’s 2.0 software introduced a new range of capabilities to the phone and the iPod Touch, the chief of which is the platform for new applications. For the first time, I’ve been able to create a plan for Getting Things Done that include a true mobile workflow and not a workaround.
Todd’s Six Workflow Requirements
Your [...]

It’s definitely a beta and there are bugs, but Gears has released a beta of its code for the Safari browser. The release brings offline access as well as a growing range of capabilities to users of Safari.
I’ve used Gears on Firefox religiously since the day it launched, to maintain access, when I’m offline, to [...]

My concentration is straying to our vacation, which begins on Wednesday and lasts into early next week. I tried to do up a little post over the weekend on Chandler and couldn’t think about it long enough to write more than a paragraph. Probably because it’s kind of ugly in its duckling phase. I’ve heard [...]

If you’re using the new (or not so new, depending on how you look at it) information manager Chandler, what do you think of it?
It’s rough, it’s clunky, it’s not all pretty, but it’s interesting. I’ve been fooling around with it for a few days and I’ll write something about it this weekend.
If you have [...]

Even with all the recent MobileMe goodness, I’m still dependent on Google Calendar, even if just to maintain backup access to my calendar in the cloud. I use Spanning Sync to keep my current calendar updated on both GCal and iCal, and Spanning Sync works with few problems. It’s an excellent program. And there are [...]

MobileMe two weeks in: I’ve basically stopped using Google Calendar entirely. It continues to stay in lock step with iCal via Spanning Sync, but I’ve really been getting into letting MobileMe push calendar stuff to my phone and iCal on a couple of computers.
I experienced some calendar downtime for a couple hours on Monday, but [...]

In less than 4 hours, Firefox 3 will launch, and aside from the hoopla surrounding Mozilla’s effort to set a record for downloads within 24 hours, this is a big step forward for the browser that rose from the ashes of Netscape.
Firefox 3 looks better, runs faster, and runs somewhat more efficiently than Firefox 2 [...]

Nik Cubrilovic at TechCrunch has an excellent piece on Gears that’s worth a few minutes of your time, if you’re interested in finding out how this little plugin is driving web development.
I’ve written about Gears (formerly Google Gears, now open source) a few times, usually starting with my excitement over being able to access web [...]

In the midst of the Apple Storm yesterday, I completely forgot that I got an update for the Google Gears Firefox extension (now known simply as “Gears”) - the update that makes it compatible with Firefox 3.
I still have a shortlist of extensions that won’t work with FF3, but this was the big one; for [...]

Certainly the new iPhone is great news. I’ve owned an iPhone since June 29, 2007 and it’s been the best phone I’ve ever owned. It’s the first phone I’ve used every day (despite having owned a cell phone since 1996), the first phone (since a Samsung I owned in 2000) that was rock solid reliable [...]

First, we got ethernet connections all over the office. Then we got wireless at home. (Then IT stopped freaking out and installed wireless at work.) Then we found lots of useful wifi hotspots. Then came cellular broadband.
There aren’t many places in the urban sphere anymore where we can’t get a speedy, reliable connection to the [...]