RSS Sponsor: Fantastical

Thanks to Fantastical for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. I love and use Fantastical every day.

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iPad Track Changes with Office² HD

Office² just released an update with the holy grail for iPad attorneys, track changes. My initial tests with a Microsoft Word file worked just fine. I need to spend some more time with this before doing a long write up, but if track changes on the iPad is important to you, go check it out.

MacVoices and Paperless

Yesterday my MacVoices interview with Chuck Joiner about Paperless and self publishing went live.

While I’m on the subject, Paperless is just a few days shy of a month in the iBookstore. It has 107 reviews (102 five stars), is still #1 in the computer category, and I love every single one of you.

GTD and Creative Work

Dave Lee’s post, where he argues GTD sucks for creative work, is making the rounds. I don’t get it. My life doesn’t easily break into creative work and other work. In fact, my life is a big smelly mess of commitments and responsibilities that, if not beat down with my GTD club frequently and with great malice, would rise up and smother any remotely creative project out of my life.

It sounds to me like Dave’s GTD system got overloaded. Accumulating too many projects and tasks feels like quicksand. The answer to this problem, however, is a scalpel, not a sledgehammer. If you are overwhelmed, do a review and kill some projects, not your entire task list.

Trickster: Quick Menu Bar Access

Trickster, a rebranded and rebuilt version of Blast, just lunched and it is pretty swell. This app puts a magic hat in you menu bar that when activated (with a click or Control-Z) drops down to display your most recent apps, files, pictures, movies, documents, dropbox files, folders, and more. Moreover, you can create your own custom filter like, for example, a running list of the most recent items in your most active client file. I still love LaunchBar but Trickster scratches a different itch. Trickster is currently just $5 but going up to $10 on June 11.