Comments for The Baydin Blog | Email, Startups, and Search http://baydin.com/blog Baydin takes the work out of email. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:04:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on 5 Sikuli Pitfalls (and how to avoid them!) by Tsung-Hsiang Chang http://baydin.com/blog/2010/06/5-sikuli-pitfalls-and-how-to-avoid-them/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Tsung-Hsiang Chang Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:04:00 +0000 http://baydin.com/blog/?p=207#comment-231 #5 is not correct. In fact, all actions implicitly call wait() before delivering their mouse or key events. So, you don't need extra wait() before each action. You just need to set a longer timeout of waiting using <a href="http://sikuli.org/trac/wiki/reference-0.10#setAutoWaitTimeout" rel="nofollow">setAutoWaitTimeout</a>. #5 is not correct. In fact, all actions implicitly call wait() before delivering their mouse or key events. So, you don’t need extra wait() before each action. You just need to set a longer timeout of waiting using setAutoWaitTimeout.

]]> Comment on The search for a high-quality Windows to do list by Ilya http://baydin.com/blog/2010/04/the-search-for-a-high-quality-windows-to-do-list/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Ilya Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:06:17 +0000 http://baydin.com/blog/2010/04/the-search-for-a-high-quality-windows-to-do-list/#comment-229 I use toodledo.com, with heavy GTD flavor, integrated with my android phone. There is a nice Firefox plug-in that simplifies adding tasks. Autohotkey makes it even faster if needed. I use toodledo.com, with heavy GTD flavor, integrated with my android phone. There is a nice Firefox plug-in that simplifies adding tasks. Autohotkey makes it even faster if needed.

]]> Comment on The search for a high-quality Windows to do list by Greg Cohn http://baydin.com/blog/2010/04/the-search-for-a-high-quality-windows-to-do-list/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Greg Cohn Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:30:52 +0000 http://baydin.com/blog/2010/04/the-search-for-a-high-quality-windows-to-do-list/#comment-217 Plaxo can't seem to outgrow that spam problem from early on (and I think everyone agrees it was a terrible mistake), but I've been happy and spam-free with them for a while. Hopefully Lazyweb will make us a no-suck task manager one of these days.... Plaxo can’t seem to outgrow that spam problem from early on (and I think everyone agrees it was a terrible mistake), but I’ve been happy and spam-free with them for a while.

Hopefully Lazyweb will make us a no-suck task manager one of these days….

]]> Comment on The search for a high-quality Windows to do list by alex http://baydin.com/blog/2010/04/the-search-for-a-high-quality-windows-to-do-list/comment-page-1/#comment-216 alex Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:38:37 +0000 http://baydin.com/blog/2010/04/the-search-for-a-high-quality-windows-to-do-list/#comment-216 No, no luck at all, unfortunately. What you do sounds a lot like what I ended up doing in my previous life, except I'm now on the iPhone without an exchange server backend, so nothing syncs worth a darn. What you're describing with Plaxo sounds interesting, but I still haven't gotten over how they hijacked subscribers' email accounts to spam everyone they'd ever emailed without permission back when Plaxo was just getting started. I feel uncomfortable letting them have any of my data, even to this day. For now, I'm using Google Tasks (which works on the iPhone when it's got a network connection), and that's working OK. It's still not quite what I'd like to have, though. Let me know if you find something awesome as well! No, no luck at all, unfortunately.

What you do sounds a lot like what I ended up doing in my previous life, except I’m now on the iPhone without an exchange server backend, so nothing syncs worth a darn.

What you’re describing with Plaxo sounds interesting, but I still haven’t gotten over how they hijacked subscribers’ email accounts to spam everyone they’d ever emailed without permission back when Plaxo was just getting started. I feel uncomfortable letting them have any of my data, even to this day.

For now, I’m using Google Tasks (which works on the iPhone when it’s got a network connection), and that’s working OK. It’s still not quite what I’d like to have, though. Let me know if you find something awesome as well!

]]> Comment on How to Mute a Thread or Conversation by alex http://baydin.com/blog/2010/05/how-to-mute-a-thread-or-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-215 alex Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:32:25 +0000 http://baydin.com/blog/2010/05/how-to-mute-a-thread-or-conversation/#comment-215 Hah, I know how to do this because we have spent weeks and weeks deep inside Outlook, building plugins for it!! There's not very much in there that we haven't looked at by now :) This is a customized version of a theme called iNove. Hah, I know how to do this because we have spent weeks and weeks deep inside Outlook, building plugins for it!! There’s not very much in there that we haven’t looked at by now :)

This is a customized version of a theme called iNove.

]]> Comment on The search for a high-quality Windows to do list by Greg Cohn http://baydin.com/blog/2010/04/the-search-for-a-high-quality-windows-to-do-list/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Greg Cohn Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:32:31 +0000 http://baydin.com/blog/2010/04/the-search-for-a-high-quality-windows-to-do-list/#comment-214 Any luck? I've had the same thing on my wish list for a long time. Here's what I do: * Outlook tasks, with categories for key project-sized deliverables (as opposed to projects), next actions, and a few other standard GTD-type contexts, such as @waiting for things I've delegated, @agendas, @deals for deals in progress, and so forth. I try to keep these simple. I also prioritize them using the simple bang (high) and arrow (low) flags. You can't rearrange them within a category via drag and drop, but you can modify the display rules so you can see the ones you want, and you can manipulate the display easily enough with a few basic hacks like putting #'s in front of task name and sorting alphabetically, or creating a new category for "top tasks for today". Since tasks support more than one category (via drag and drop) you can play with that too. * Outlook syncs to blackberry via exchange server. i don't know if there's an iphone interface for this. * I also sync outlook to plaxo, which syncs contacts, calendar, and task (though the latter is not well advertised) across platforms and to the web. It formats these well and respects category tree. You can access this directly on the web, or possibly find another interface to suck them out of plaxo into a different app. I've been using this pretty effectively for a couple of years now... while waiting for the PC version of Things to come out.... Let me know what you come up with; I'd be interested in checking it out. Any luck?

I’ve had the same thing on my wish list for a long time. Here’s what I do:

* Outlook tasks, with categories for key project-sized deliverables (as opposed to projects), next actions, and a few other standard GTD-type contexts, such as @waiting for things I’ve delegated, @agendas, @deals for deals in progress, and so forth. I try to keep these simple. I also prioritize them using the simple bang (high) and arrow (low) flags. You can’t rearrange them within a category via drag and drop, but you can modify the display rules so you can see the ones you want, and you can manipulate the display easily enough with a few basic hacks like putting #’s in front of task name and sorting alphabetically, or creating a new category for “top tasks for today”. Since tasks support more than one category (via drag and drop) you can play with that too.

* Outlook syncs to blackberry via exchange server. i don’t know if there’s an iphone interface for this.

* I also sync outlook to plaxo, which syncs contacts, calendar, and task (though the latter is not well advertised) across platforms and to the web. It formats these well and respects category tree. You can access this directly on the web, or possibly find another interface to suck them out of plaxo into a different app.

I’ve been using this pretty effectively for a couple of years now… while waiting for the PC version of Things to come out….

Let me know what you come up with; I’d be interested in checking it out.

]]> Comment on How to Mute a Thread or Conversation by Troll http://baydin.com/blog/2010/05/how-to-mute-a-thread-or-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Troll Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:12:26 +0000 http://baydin.com/blog/2010/05/how-to-mute-a-thread-or-conversation/#comment-210 How you know how to do this? Also, what wordpress template you use? Or you makezes it up? How you know how to do this?

Also, what wordpress template you use? Or you makezes it up?

]]> Comment on Defer Sending a Message in Outlook by hermes birkin http://baydin.com/blog/2010/03/defer-sending-a-message-in-outlook/comment-page-1/#comment-185 hermes birkin Wed, 05 May 2010 05:18:33 +0000 http://baydin.com/blog/2010/03/defer-sending-a-message-in-outlook/#comment-185 nice share, good article, very usefull for me...thanks nice share, good article, very usefull for me…thanks

]]> Comment on Defer Sending a Message in Outlook by WP Themes http://baydin.com/blog/2010/03/defer-sending-a-message-in-outlook/comment-page-1/#comment-184 WP Themes Wed, 05 May 2010 04:03:37 +0000 http://baydin.com/blog/2010/03/defer-sending-a-message-in-outlook/#comment-184 Nice post and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. Say thank you you seeking your information. Nice post and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. Say thank you you seeking your information.

]]> Comment on Defer Sending a Message in Outlook by MarkSpizer http://baydin.com/blog/2010/03/defer-sending-a-message-in-outlook/comment-page-1/#comment-179 MarkSpizer Sun, 02 May 2010 11:30:58 +0000 http://baydin.com/blog/2010/03/defer-sending-a-message-in-outlook/#comment-179 great post as usual! great post as usual!

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