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KanbanView 2.6 for Cultured Code Things is out and you should get a copy!

August 20, 2020 Luc Beaulieu

Over two years ago, I made a proposal for a 20 000-foot Kanban-like visualization concept for Cultured Code Things 3 task manager. This was in

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Dealing with E-mails in Academia II – Emails to actions to Inbox Zero

February 3, 2019 Luc Beaulieu

This is the second (and last) installment in dealing with e-mails. It assumes that you have read the first one, basic ethos. If you have

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Minor update to Kanban View for Cultured Code Things 3

August 30, 2018 Luc Beaulieu

First, Kansan-View scripts and css are now available on GitHub.  Second, many thanks to Alexander Willner from Berlin, Germany for making the script fully compatible with

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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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Adding an efficient, higher-level project view layer to Things 3: a proposal

July 11, 2018 Luc Beaulieu

In the following, I would like to make an argument for a Kaban-Style view screen for projects that could become a 7th viewing mode (there is already 6 by default) in Things 3.

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Free, multi-platform pro-like applications for students

June 27, 2018 Luc Beaulieu

In the following are a few applications to help you along the way. Of course, nothing precludes the good old pen and paper

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Things 3: clean, efficient and simply beautiful!

June 19, 2018 Luc Beaulieu

Ever since moving all of my projects an tasks planning digital, I have used a dedicated task manager. I started with Cultured Code Things over

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Cultured Code Things 3 on the way for 2014!

December 21, 2013 Luc Beaulieu

The team at Cultured Code has announced on their blog that they have reached 1 million copies of Things  sold. In the same blog post,

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