I was tempted to add MenuMeters to the “VPZtms Compendium of Tools” post because if I’d added it (and Growl), the list would have included all the applications that I am always running on my machine. I refrained because technically they have nothing to do with information management. But I still wanted to write something […]
Flash intros aren’t looked highly upon in the web design community and with good reason. Web surfers have notoriously short attention spans, so you don’t want to make them sit through a movie to get into your site. With that said, I’ve never been able the shake the feeling that Flash intros did in fact provide […]
All of the tools I listed in the “Compendium of Tools” section are either free, have a free version, or come built-in to OS X (excluding TextPander, which was just recently made a paid product). This tendency towards free software is a side-effect of the way I select tools. Definition of Good Software When selecting software tools, […]
This is a quick introduction to the software tools that the VPZtms uses. The tools are divided into the categories that I outlined in the “Introduction to Information Management” section. All of these tools satisfy my requirements of being simple, flexible, and easy to use. Discovery NetNewsWire - I’ve already written 2053 words about RSS, so I’ll refrain […]
I chose the term “time management” for the title of this series because that’s the term that has been popularized recently by David Allen, 43 Folders and the like. But my system covers more than just managing to-dos, so I am going to introduce a new term, “Information Management,” to describe it. The goal of […]