#FF00AA

@apple@

Midnight Inbox [via]: Finally, a real OS X application designed from the ground up for GTD principles? It seems a little too early in development for any kind of functional judgment (or for public beta release — even though I can relate to a small developer’s impatience to get something out and have some feedback), but it seems well thought out, and damn does it look pretty. Which counts. A lot.

From the few minutes I spent with the program before it crashed, only one thing worries me: I don’t see any hint of Yojimbo-like web archiving functionality. The most important thing for a GTD process to be successful is that it has to encompass everything; all your data must be in one central place, to be managed with the same tools. And, in this day and age, a lot of that data is in the form of a web page. (Which is why I have migrated my to-do lists to Yojimbo, even though that means having to manually type “todo” in the search box every time I want to retrieve them.)

 

@web@

Check your web site’s status on Google (part of Google Webmaster Central). It’s nice to see how long ago the Google spiders visited your site, but you could already extract that info from your HTTP logs. It would really be interesting if it could tell you when a newly-added site is actually going to be indexed for the first time, but I tried and it doesn’t.

No pages from your site are currently included in Google’s index. Indexing can take time.

Yeah, I knew that, thanks.

 

@web@

Link Alert: there are already several Firefox extensions to warn you that a link points to a PDF or Word document or whatever, but this one does look more elegant than the others.

Although it’s probably a bit too unobtrusive — unless Acrobat for Windows has dramatically changed since I switched, you probably want a bit more prominent warning before you accidentally click a PDF link.