Some of my favorite recent finds:
Call in for free and have your voice notes transcribed as a note to yourself or an email to someone else. Pretty good transcribing ability. You can also set it up to email your online todo list (I use RememberTheMilk.com, see below.) In the car, remember something you want to do –call it in and its there in your inbox.
RememberTheMilk.com On online todo list that can be as simple or rich as you want. Why use an online todolist? Well -I can see it from any computer, sync it with ical, see if from my cell phone, send or share lists, tag items (much better than categorizing) -includes a ‘tag cloud’, have reminders come as emails, txt messages or IM, etc. Much more –and the ajax is wicked quick.
DandeLife.com I mentioned it earlier. To be honest, I am not crazy about the layout. Here is the personal need that led to finding this: I write so many journal and blog entries that I rarely go back and read it –plus 95% of it is crap. But I like the idea of being able to look back at my life and see a basic outline of major events/big life lessons/blessings/challenges/etc. First by year, then by month. Probably no more detail is needed. Imagine a grid of 10×10 that is 100 years of your life. You look at it and each year has 1 sentence to describe what that year was mainly about. The ’story’ of your life, the pattern, perhaps starts to emerge. You could then zoom down a year to a 12 cell (months) view –that shows you the detail that your ‘year sentence’ came from. I also imagined being able to tag items (challenges, tragedies, moves, jobs, etc) Get it? Well, you can do that at dandelife –but in a linear timeline view (and you can’t read the whole sentence). Check mine own dandelife page and you’ll see. You can also add blog entries, pictures and even import feeds into your dandelife.
Ning.com Create your own private social networks that look gorgeous, can upload pictures, videos, create forums, add widgets, etc. It looks pretty and can be managed in many ways. You can stick with the easy instant creation, or even geek out and edit the php files.
AppDelete If you test out lots of Mac apps, you need this one –it will delete all associations of the file from your sysem, and its free.
Slife This handly little app is a timetracker –showing you in visually pleasing ways (graphs by day, month, app, topic, etc) detailed information about how you are spending time on your computer. You can tag, categorize, make up projects, etc. I’m still learning how to use this most effectively and its main problem is that it only ‘knows’ so many applicaitons.
Tags: jott, rememberthemilk, dandelife, ning, appdelete, slife, geekingoutloud, leifhansen, wonderosity, sparknw, freeware, socialmedia, web20, socialnetworking
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