Jott is simply too cool and useful. I’ve been using it for over a year as it’s gained more and better features. Consider it a combination of a voice recorder, a text-to-speech dictation system, and a reminder system. Jott can be used to make lists and even as a GTD “trusted system,” but I find it most useful as a sort of “inbox” and reminder system for things I think of while away from other note taking tools.
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Turns out I was wrong about Safari 3.1 still not being able to save tabs between runs. Indeed it can, though the UI is very different than that of Camino or other browsers that do so. Rather than simply restoring the open tabs from the previous sessions automatically, Safari always opens to the default page. However, by clicking History –> Reopen All Windows From Last Session, all the previously open tabs will be restored.
Safari 3.1 and later can also be made to open all windows in tabs. First, select Preferences –> Open links from applications and chose “in a tab in the current window.” Close Preferences, and in a terminal type ‘defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true’.
With these new behaviors, Safari 3.1 and later act a lot more like Camino or Firefox, but is better integrated with OS X. I’m still waffling among the three, but find myself using Safari more and more.
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I consider that I use three different Apple computers - an iPhone, a MacBook Air, and a 17″ MacBook Pro. Interestingly, it seems that the smallest two are the most useful to me, despite being less capable in terms of graphics, storage, and processor performance. I think that suggests something interesting about the hardware capabilities versus need these days.
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Back on 10/2/07 I twittered: “Why can’t my work email and calendar be as good as Gmail and GCal?” At the time I was using Lotus Notes, which I’ve come to believe is simply one of the worst options you can be stuck with for email and calendaring in a corporate environment. Sure, you can run the server on Linux which is cool and stable, but the clients just suck.
Since coming to Innovative I’ve been on an Exchange server, which sounds like it ought to be a nightmare for a dedicated Mac/*nix head like me — but it turns out it isn’t. The reality is that Exchange 2007 is a pretty decent mail and calendar server, and is completely capable of speaking open protocols like IMAP and WebDav. More importantly, the Mac client for Exchange, Entourage 2008, is actually very, very good. In fact, I’d have to say it’s the best Mac email and calendaring client I’ve yet used.
Aside from good mail filing and search functionality, and calendaring that not only works via Exchange to easily share calendars with my colleagues and our CRM system, it also syncs calendars easily with my iPhone via iCal. By iPhone 2.0 I should actually have over-the-air syncing with both my calendar and mail on the iPhone, the only thing from my Notes-and-Blackberry days that I miss.
Maybe the coolest thing about Entourage is something not even its sibling Outlook has - Project Center. I’m just starting to use this, but it allows you to easily group appointments, tasks, email, contacts, and files pertaining to a project in a single place. Having a single locations to see all of this at a glance is powerful - GTD level powerful, in that it enables focus on the topic at hand replacing the way we typically work with all of our content scattered in different locations and difficult to track.
I actually enjoy using Entourage, something I haven’t been able to say about any other email and calendaring solution outside of Google’s offerings for quite some time. I don’t know that I would be nearly as enthusiastic about Outlook (though it would still be better than Lotus Notes). Microsoft and their Mac Business Unit have done a good job here.
