Thursday, January 6th, 2005
Notetaking needs
Wikitywidget is the short-time winner of apple’s dashboard contest (googlecache, the page has been mysteriously pulled from apple’s site). Makes me crave for 10.4 tiger and even more the dashboard sdk. This little widget could instantly replace voodoopad lite for me. It looks like it’ll be more than sufficient for quick&dirty notetaking, always lingering just one shortcut away on the dashboard.
The thing i like about desktop wikis for personal information management is that they make it incredibly easy to create hypertext documents. Voodoopad’s camel-case support makes creating and hotlinking a new page instantaneous which is very useful for hammering out new categories and subordinate pages. The downside is that it’s rather tedious to (re)structure a wiki due to it’s freeform nature.
On a related note, voodoopad never quite worked for extended drafting and longwinded writing for me. Having heard the praises of outliners i’m very tempted to give omnioutliner a whirl now that it has just been bumped to v3.
Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
05
2004 went surprisingly well for me and i have this vague feeling that 2005 could turn out even better. So far this year didn’t start too well with a moderate toothache and bad luck in games (of the board variety), but that’s nothing to seriously rain on my parade.
If i know you and didn’t have time to catch up with you already, i wish you a happy new year!