Me, Mobile
I'm in a minor level reassessment of GTD apps. Yes, I was doing same last week. And the week before. And.... um, yes, I remember now. The week before that, as well.
I'm using Remember the Milk. I'm also using Omnifocus. I like Omnifocus more, but up until the launch of Omni's new app for the iPhone, I didn't have access to my lists on the phone. RTM stepped in nicely and filled the gap, so I used RTM for the day to day to-do lists, and left Omnifocus for higher level prioritizing. (What does that mean?)
RTM's iPhone app has been super cool since the beginning and I've had few complaints about it. But, now Omnifocus comes along with an app that's been hyped for a few weeks, AND it seems to deliver. All the list functionality you expect, a really cool interface that has a lot of people talking, and this location awareness thing that is killer. I walk in the store, iPhone location services figures out that I'm in the store, and Omnifocus gives me the list of things I wanted to buy.
That's one of those "future of computing" apps that gets everyone excited. Like the old Windows movie where, in the very near future, a young woman sits down at her computer, which recognizes her and greets her by name. Except that location awareness is something I actually care about.
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I think that there's a decent possibility that the delightfully named MobileMe still isn't working for some people, so I feel bad saying it, but it's working perfectly for me and I'm loving that I don't have to sync my phone whenever I make a major "must not forget" last minute change to my schedule. Sync is slow from my Mac to MobileMe, but if I add a calendar item or contact to MobileMe, the update appears almost immediately in my phone, and vice versa. Perfect... and it leaves me in this weird position of not using Google Calendar for the first time since the day it launched in 2006.
However, I've not closed down Gcal. It still syncs to iCal every couple of minutes. And good thing because the .Mac record was less than illustrious when it came to up-time, and I'm still a bit about skeptical about MobileMe, especially after the "rocky" launch last week.
Me. Me. .me
Speaking of myself, I registered my name in the new .me domain today. Not my first name. I was asleep at the wheel during that landgrab, and let's face it, my chances of grabbing my first name were slim to none. But I've added .me to my broadcast empire on the web. What will I do with it? Who knows? Like a radio station owner who buys a new station because it's there and then can't figure out what to do with it, I'll probably simulcast my main website on it for a while. Maybe my .com will be my professional site, with my professional blog and my CV and all that; and .me will be my personal blog. Except that this is my personal blog. And then there are two other personal blogs of mine. I've got a lot of little bits of me, floating around like space junk.
Don't run into any of them.
