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current snapshot of my next action balls basket

Recommended:

A few days ago Chris Murtland posted a good set of strategies for deciding on which Next Actions to act upon within a given timeframe. I really love the idea of building a reusable set of patterns (aleatoric next action, mixins,...) that fits ones individual needs.

Broken:

My (frog shaped) timer, and I feel pretty lost without it. I basically used it for various kinds of sprints (anti-clutter sprints, feed sprints,...), but since its gone I just quit some habits. (I installed EggTimer (a nice little app) but it doesn't really cut it for me.)

Previous NABs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, main documentation page.


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Wow, the TiddlyWiki has been amazing before, but the new version is just awesome:



Just for the case you didn't run across it: it's a self-contained, browser based Wiki, probably with the cutest user interface for displaying and editing of micro-content chunks around.


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Hmm, del.icio.us comes with a pretty minimalistic design nowadays:



One problem with relying on (clever and smart as they might be) webapps (or building ones business on them - as recently promoted by Evan Williams and O'Reilly Radar) is: they do fail.

[Note to self: make an exhaustive list of current dependencies, evaluate the impact for worst and observed cases, come up with some sort of backup, interims, and exit strategies]


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Fitlog - A daily chronicle of [Mike Warren's] attempts at fitness
The Year of Coffee Blog - Take a photo of each and every cup of coffee and post it
Google Sightseeing - Take you to the best tourist spots in the world via Google Maps' satellite imagery
Popgadget - Personal Tech for Women
101 Cookbooks - Exploring a collection of cookbooks, one recipe at a time
Chocolate and Zucchine - the fancy side of food
information aesthetics weblog - towards creative information visualization
Mighty Goods - hooray for stuff
PostSecret - ongoing community art project
Tricks of the Trade - Professional secrets from those in the know
IDFuel - the fire to create
Cooking for Engineers - Recipe Tabular Notation Patent Pending


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Just added those infamous tag clouds to this blog (as seen on the Observer Blog, Joi Ito, O'Reilly Radar or Ask MetaFilter). I just love them. Whenever I run across them, I have this uncontrollable desire to click on all the tiny tags (I rarely click on the biggies).


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RecSense: 2005-04-24 [music]

WeFunk radio for your mind locus drum and bass (good shows in the archive) BassDrive drum and bass radio Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-23 [itconversations]

Malcolm Gladwell at SXSW Interactive 2005 The Architecture of Participation at Web 2.0 The Participation Age Jonathan Schwartz Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-22 [food]

Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 The 2005 edition of the Guidelines was released at 11 AM, January 12, 2005 delicious:days a food blog from Munich Good Food show on KCRW Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-21 [tagtools]

Pasta text pasting service for del.icio.us del.icio.us tag search for the really lazy bastards Tag Central aggregates results from various sources for a given tag Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-20 [o'reillys]

O'Reilly Radar "The O'Reilly Radar blog will track what we're tracking, and turn the blips into conversations" O'Reilly CodeZoo Find good code MAKE: Blog DIY Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-19 [cocoa bridges]

RubyCocoa a bridge between ruby and cocoa PyObjC a bridge between python and cocoa CamelBones a bridge between perl and cocoa Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-18 [art]

Consuming Passions art and shopping Mark Newport | Sculpture art and knitting d_cultuRe : d0wnloAd _ saMple + cuT - uP : cultuRe art and mashing Recs by Sauuuurier

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Part I : good Pasta

Pasta is a handy little tool for adding taggable text (notes, annotations, recipes,...) to the del.icio.us framework. It creates a webpage from the text entered and submits the URL to del.icio.us. Note that the page created is public and can not be modified or deleted.

Part II : bad Pasta

Never mix different types of pasta.

I'm always astonished about how much influence the shapes of the different pasta variants have on the overall taste of a dish, how they combine well with the one sauce but not the other and so on, but I never expected the combination of different shapes (like Spaghetti and Macaroni as I just did) to taste that odd. It seems like the gustatory nerves become confused and irritated, not knowing which signals to send...

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current snapshot of my next action balls basket

current mood: lazy, goofy.

minor technical adjustment:

During the past 2 weeks I was experimenting with Mark Wieczorek's Cascading Next Actions (this article is an overall excellent introduction into the whys and hows of Next Actions), a method I like a lot since it basically eliminates the need for separate project lists at all. The negative side effect for my setup (each Next Action is written on a Next Action Note and made a Next Action Ball when done) was a decreased output of Next Action Balls, since I'm reusing the notes, scribbling the follow-up Next Action on the same note.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, main documentation page.

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Just a sidenote: I wonder whether the quantity of and the naming conventions used in blogrolls reflect some conceptual disposition of the blogger. There is masturbatoric selflinking to ones own projects only, incestuous mutual crosslinking within blogclouds, or promiscuous outlinking; using the authors and not the titles of blogs (John Gruber vs. Daring Fireball, Merlin Mann vs. 43 Folders,...) might indicate an unbroken believe in an authentic and autonomous voice; using the titles might indicate a dedication to brands, and so on.

Nah, bullshit. But it's fun to look at blogrolls trying to figure out the underlying motivation for exactly that structure - and not all possible others. (It was this blogroll that got me thinking. He uses a highly unlikely sorting technique.)

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RecSense: 2005-04-17 [tagging]

Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain introduction to tagwebs Taxonomies and Tags philosophical intro to tags Folksonomies Tap People Power "the world of digital photographers is dominated by cat people" Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-16 [layouts]

Ruthsarian Layouts a few layouts Layout-o-matic layout generator Liquid Layouts layout tutorial Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-15 [knitting blogs]

Scarf-o-matic all about a knitting passion Click-Clack a knitting blog The Knitting Curmudgeon shut up, I'm counting Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-14 [creative sth.]

Creative Commons flexible copyright for creative work Sampling Creative Commons for sounds Creative Archive ripping, mixing and sharing the BBC Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-13 [fun with words]

SCIgen An Automatic CS Paper Generator Postmodernism Generator creates postmodern musings malevole random text generator Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-12 [food blogs]

The Kitchen Geek food blog Chocolate & Zucchini another food blog Cooking for Engineers yet another food blog Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-11 [webdesign]

HTML Tidy online HTML Tidy online! Layout-o-matic create stups of CSS based layouts Image Annotator Annotate images (as seen in flickr) via RDF and XSLT Recs by Sauuuurier

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May I introduce: mashup, an aleatoric metablog. The input is hijacked from blogs I like, the output (somehow syntactically correct ramblings) is generated by a tool I originally developed to transform spam into something useful.

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Face transformations created with the Face Transformer.

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RecSense: 2005-04-10 [webtools]

Dropload One way, one time fat file (up to 100 MB) transporter (free) SproutLiner web based outliner (free) Buzztracker Visualization of locations ranked by daily popularity in the media Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-09 [email]

FutureMail send yourself emails in the future I FutureMe send someone (or yourself) an email in the future II PookMail disposable email Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-08 [colours]

COLOURlovers ranked color schemes colormatch redux color brainstorming tool Color Scheme Generator 2 more color magic Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-07 [search]

Yahoo Creative Commons Search search for content licensed under CC Y!Q Beta search for content based on context yahoo! vs. google visualize the corresponding positions of search results Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-06 [editors]

Vim (for OS X) editor Viper vi mode for emacs Emacs (for OS X) editor Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-05 [post del.icio.us]

extisp.icio.us psychogreographic maps (from del.icio.us) trendal.icio.us micro zeitgeist (from del.icio.us) oishii mini zeitgeist (from del.icio.us) Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-04 [overload]

Feedmarker free, Web based RSS/ATOM aggregator and bookmarks manager (untested) BlogRolling Link manager for weblogs (untested) Simpy social bookmarking and personal search (untested) Recs by Sauuuurier

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current snapshots of my next action balls basket

minor technical adjustment:

Supplementary to using a color based scheme for assigning contexts to Next Action Notes I started to annotate them with tags as well - a trick I picked up from Edward Vielmetti. This actually works pretty well since it provides a higher level of granularity for sorting or rearranging the notes if I want to without distracting if I don't.


Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, main documentation page.

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RecSense: 2005-04-03 [mix]

Grafedia words written anywhere, then linked to images, video or sound files online (hybrid hyperlinking) DIY Planner 2.0 a set of free do-it-yourself templates, covers, documentation and other gear for creating your own highly customised and tweakable paper planner system (analog) Wired CD Rip, Sample, Mash, Share (digital) Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-02 [webtools]

Brilliant Button Maker creating those nifty 80x15 buttons gif2txt creating those nifty ASCII images Gizoggle creating those nifty raps Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-04-01 [april fools]

Google Gulp Smart drink designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty. boringboring directory of dull things Sixfoo! 660 (invitation only; currently Feta) Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-03-31 [the long tail]

The Short Tail nice comment on the discussions on the economics of the Long Tail The Long Tail (Wired 12.10) The Long Tail Chris Anderson's Blog running in sync with writing his book on the Long Tail Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-03-30 [sounds]

Solid Steel best show ever (if you like this kind of stuff) sonicyouth.com official site. Currently the Sonic Mixtape Vol.2 is available. Resonance 104.4 fm London's first art radio station Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-03-29 [webtools]

Mappr! flash based tool for visualizing places based on the photos people take there. Google Zeitgeist the flurry of Google queries clustered thematically. LazyWeb Tell what you are looking for on your blog and wait for solutions pouring in. Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-03-28 [books]

Freedom of Expression® Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity (PDF) Out of Control Kevin Kelly's classic in excerpts (HTML) The Society of the Spectacle Situationist manifesto (HTML) Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-03-27 [blogtools]

Texpattern very cute and focused blog-publishing framework (PHP, MsSQL) ((GPL)) WordPress pretty sophisticated web-publishing framework (PHP, MySQL) ((GPL)) Pivot Pretty clean Blog-publishing tool. (PHP, no database) ((GPL)) Recs by Sauuuurier

RecSense: 2005-03-26 [wikis]

Code v.2 Wiki refreshing Lawrence Lessig's seminal book (Jotspot) Getting Things Done Wiki (FlexWiki) 43 Folders Wiki (MediaWiki) Recs by Sauuuurier

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Ongoing fun with del.icio.us hacks. extisp.icio.us creates psycho-geographic maps for any del.icio.us user account given.

This is the map for the entries of this blog:




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