Doug
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03:50:49 am on July 8, 2003 | # |
Shortly after writing yesterday’s post on dashboard, I ran across Michael McCraken’s port of the Remem remembrance agent for Emacs to OS X. The good news - this port doesn’t require emacs to work, rather, it watches Cocoa text objects and suggests associations based on whatever you’re currently working on in any Cocoa program.
The bad news (for me) is that it’s Cocoa only, meaning it doesn’t work with Tinderbox, which is where I do most of my writing. On the upside, the indexer indexes Tinderbox files (which are XML, after all), so the program should indicate associations within Tinderbox outlines when I’m working in other applications. That’s possibly more valuable to me than having it provide me with associations in Tinderbox, since Tinderbox acts as my main database, and I’m more likely to want to be reminded of stuff that’s already in there when I’m doing something else.
The really bad news is that this is a developer release, and I couldn’t get it to actually work. The UI displays, and I can index my documents with the indexer from the command line, but the controller application doesn’t allow me to associate indexes with the application itself. Basically, it doesn’t do anything at all. I recompiled everything from scratch just in case it was something specific to my system, but no joy.
Still, it bears watching. Note that there’s no (functioning) permalink to the post that describes the software. You’ll need to search the page for ‘remembrance.’
Michael indicates that http://disco.ucsd.edu/blog/computers/mac/programming/XRADevRel1.html is a permalink to the item linked above. Thanks Michael!
Update 7/8/2003 to add permalink.
