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Kanban-View for Things 3 – Release V1.0 available (free)!

August 26, 2018 Luc Beaulieu

The following will allow a visual project-level overview of what is on your plate. It is comprised of 3 files: a python script, a CSS file and a PDF README file (a copy of this post). It can be executed from the terminal or as a system service using the macOS Automator app (thus never needing to open a terminal and can be associated to a keyboard short cut).

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A Kanban view for Things 3 : Part III – displaying the project-level information

August 14, 2018 Luc Beaulieu

Almost there! Quite surprisingly, I hadn’t written html code since I completed my PhD in 1996. From 1993 to 1996, I created and maintained our

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A Kanban view for Things 3 : Part II – extracting the relevant information

August 10, 2018 Luc Beaulieu

In a previous blog post entitled Adding an efficient, higher-level project view layer to Things 3: a proposal , I put forth that while Things 3 is

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Automating collection of To Dos from meeting notes using DevonThink, AppleScript and Things

March 7, 2015 Luc Beaulieu

For sometimes now, I went fully digital when attending meetings (one on one, research, scientific congress or even committee meetings). I adopted the iPad for that task

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Cultured Code Things free on iPad/iPhone, 30% off on Mac

November 23, 2014 Luc Beaulieu

Things Blog is announcing a give away for the latest version of Things for iPhone and iPad and a good amount off the Mac version. Been

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On starting a new project…

December 13, 2012 Luc Beaulieu

I design, plan, execute and complete projects on a regular basis for quite a number of years now. As a researcher, it is an integral

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About productivity…

October 2, 2012 Luc Beaulieu

It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about? ― Henry David Thoreau Productivity is not the same creativity,

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Digital Office II: Mac Software

June 11, 2012 Luc Beaulieu

For those who might not have read the first post in this series about the hardware side of things, please have a look: Digital Office I

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