Keeping organized with Tasks and Dates
After talking to a few other guys about Openbox and what other applications one can use to get the best experience from a blazing fast windows manager, I remembered the other two programs I use to keep myself organized, both at home and at work: Dates and Tasks.
Tasks is basically a ToDo list that allows me to easily and quickly keep track of my weekly tasks, prioritizing each item as I see fit. It doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles and I believe that is one of the reasons I chose it. If I were to make a few suggestions, I’d add tooltips to each item, as well as the ability to launch a web page if items have an URL assigned to it.
Its counter-part is Dates, a scheduling tool for the desktop. It too is faily simple to use and it allows me to keep track of meetings and important events. Once again, if I were to make a constructive comment, it would be too add a notification/reminder service to it, in case you’re off doing something else… like watching the replay of Milan and Liverpool for instance. 
It would also be nice to sync up these two programs, and I think that is what Sync will do.
By the way, if you’re wondering like LaserJock what is the panel bar I’m using (bottom of the screen), that is PyPanel. The Openbox theme is Ubuntu Studio and the wallpaper is from DevianArt (I couldn’t find it to link). And this post was written using Drivel. 
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June 4th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Hi Og!
Nice post, I have been going through the same over the weekend: trying to get my computer life organized.
I have addressed this issue using Mozilla and Google products. Mozilla, since I endorse OpenSource and cross-platform applications, and Google because they pretty good centralized information management solutions. Google calendar lets me synchronize with Ligntning or Sunbird (Mozilla Calenar Solutions), allowing me to access my calendar from any computer connected to the internet (if I don’t have Mozilla apps installed, I can just use the web). So much calendar entries.
As far as tasks go: I haven’t been able to find a solution that will integrate nicely and go with me wherever I am. Especially tasks need to be accessible from any computer I am at, and I should be able to expect them to synchronize. I’m still looking into a task management solution that will integrate with Thunderbird, Lightning/Sunbird, and perhaps Google.
Cheers!
June 5th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I’ve been reading your posts on Planet Ubuntu and have been enjoying your screenshots. They always look very clean and nice, while still functional. Almost makes me want to try Openbox. Almost.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Did you got Deskbar working with OpenBox?
I didn’t got that
June 6th, 2007 at 11:11 am
@Marco, I not sure what you mean by deskbar… ?
Cheers,
Og
June 6th, 2007 at 11:23 am
@Og, I meant the deskbar applet: http://raphael.slinckx.net/deskbar/
It used to open with +Space
But I have not found a Command-Line option to force the applet to pop-up (the stand-alone thingy is too slow to load every time).
Do you have any idea to forward specific keyboard shortcuts to the normal gnome handler? (
June 6th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Why when I click on the photo it redirects me to yahoo sign-in page?