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Comment on Mediator 9: The Basics by Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:11:31 +0000

Hi Jeremy !!
I was very pleased to find your blog with these great videos teaching me the basics of Mediator 9.0.
Iv’e emaild MatchWare team about a question but their support is soooo poor.. So i’ll ask you instead..
Is there a way in mediator to get some kind of filedialog ? For an example i want to make a Mp3 player for Windows and therefore i don’t wan to include the songs with the application but let the users of my app choose some of their own mp3’s on their own computer ??

Really thankful if you could help me with this and pleast email me back at: andreas.malmqvist76@gmail.com

// Andreas

Comment on OmniFocus v Things by Gary Y

Gary Y — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:52:10 +0000

I tried Things, but it got overwhelming, and I felt like I was spending more time moving things into and out of “Today” than actually doing things.

For a while I used Life Balance ( http://www.llamagraphics.com ) for its “auto-prioritizing” and “life balancing” features. Ultimately, its lack of a straightforward way to see upcoming due items led me to look again.

I’m now sold on Omnifocus. One thing it has that Things doesn’t (to my recollection): a way to do reviews and mark things as having been reviewed. I think this can help you get a handle on an enormous amount of stuff, and by allowing you to set project review intervals, you can set some to, say, review monthly–so your weekly review isn’t necessarily too cumbersome.

Syncing with iPod Touch was a bit tricky at first…had to restart my wireless router. But it seems OK now (just one day into it).

Hope this helps!

Comment on OmniFocus v Things by John Potter

John Potter — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:11:43 +0000

Hi Jeremy,
How are you? Happy New Year and all the rest – now back to commenting:
I was in exactly the same position with my own chaotic non-organisation. I am slowly learning to live with OmniFocus too. I’ve had it for a few months now. I find the sorting of the columns a bit clunky but it really wins on the syncing which ties in neatly with the iPhone which is incredibly useful – since I often remember stuff (or get given things to do!) when I am away from either laptop or dekstop(s).
But it’s a struggle nonetheless.
Will keep this under review – great blog, great post.
See you,
John

Comment on Mediator 9: Drag & Drop by Pippa Totraku

Pippa Totraku — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:51:02 +0000

Through Jeremy’s screencast series on Mediator I have found a good balance of information both visually onscreen and through the audio narration. I will continue to use these resources significantly in my teaching and I know that my students appreciate the support they provide. Many, many thanks.

Comment on ScreenFlow 2.0 v Camtasia for Mac by Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:19:18 +0000

prof. Deja Vue :
I like Camtasia’s flexibility to decide what part of the screen you want to create video recording and to create border limits in advance (before actual recording takes place). That is not available in ScreenFlow (I have to use SF’s editing window to zoom in and do the cropping, etc.).

Thanks for your comment, Deja Vue. I can see where you are coming from here although some people might look on this as a positive feature of ScreenFlow. It means that you have a lot of flexibility when you get to the editing stage. If you start by capturing only a portion of the screen, you can't then change your mind and zoom out during the editing stage. I like to start by capturing everything on the screen and then make decisions later about when to zoom in on particular elements. Having said this, perhaps it would be good if ScreenFlow offered an option to capture a specific part of the screen, in the same way as Camtasia for Mac, in order to accommodate different workflows.

Comment on ScreenFlow 2.0 v Camtasia for Mac by prof. Deja Vue

prof. Deja Vue — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:51:31 +0000

Thanks for helpful review. I am using both Camtasia 1.0.1 and ScreenFlow 2.0 (both for Mac and both in trial mode). I like Camtasia’s flexibility to decide what part of the screen you want to create video recording and to create border limits in advance (before actual recording takes place). That is not available in ScreenFlow (I have to use SF’s editing window to zoom in and do the cropping, etc.). Everything else is in favor of ScreenFlow. So, my vote goes for ScreenFlow.

Comment on OmniFocus v Things by durbrow

durbrow — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:18:07 +0000

Thanks for reporting this. If you fell in love with Things you might do the same for The Hit List. Its UI, to my eye is even cleaner and allows better keyboard options and flexibility. Also, although it does not have an iPhone app apparently there are third party apps that will sync The Hit List (portion factory) with your iPhone. I’ll be interested to hear what you think.

Comment on OmniFocus v Things by Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:34:05 +0000

If you’d like to learn more about both OmniFocus and Things then you should check out the recent Mac Power Users podcast entitled ‘Task Management Smackdown’, which takes an in-depth look at these two applications. This is well worth a listen. You’ll find it at http://macpowerusers.com/2009/11/02/mpu-013-task-management-smackdown/

Comment on ScreenFlow 2.0 v Camtasia for Mac by Ralf Zosel

Ralf Zosel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:54:41 +0000

Thanks a lot for this helpful review. I compared the Version 1.5.4 of ScreenFlow with Camtasia for Mac an prefered Camtasia. Now, when my Camtasia trial period expires I definitely give ScreenFlow a second chance.

Comment on OmniFocus v Things by Laurent C.

Laurent C. — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:41:18 +0000

I’ve been a user and fan of OmniFocus since before version 1.0, and was intrigued also by the simplicity and niceness of Things UI, but I think the 2 programs don’t have the same goal. I mean, with Omnifocus you can manage huuuge lists of projects and organize them as you want. Things approach is nicer at first, but I can’t even imagine what the program would look like if I had to enter the same amount of projects I have in Omnifocus… It’d a real mess !

On the other hand, what I miss in Omnifocus is Things’ way of organizing time with the Next, Scheduled and “Someday” buttons… I guess it would be doable with Omnifocus, but that’d need a lot of work to customize it to my needs.

I guess you can’t have it all, but as with time, things tend to become more complex, I believe Things simplicity would be overwhelmed quite quickly with the quantity of information we get to manage in our daily lives…

@rudyr : in those conditions, using the same database for both tools would make no sense…