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MyGeekDaddy has some great URL scheme actions for Editorial, Drafts, Launch Center Pro, OmniFocus, TextTool and a bunch of other apps. Lots of useful stuff and good examples to build off of. If you’re a fan of TextTool, which is a great text service app for iOS, @Win7Guru has several Launch Center Pro groups for quickly triggering a TextTool conversion with the clipboard. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

You’ll either slap your head out of amazement or because this tip is so trivial. Ever get to the end of an Audible book and you don’t have a new one ready to go? On iOS, you can’t just purchase another book right there in the Audible app. If you’re a hardened nerd, you have 1Password installed. Jump over there and open the Audible web page. Buy a new book and then jump back to the Audible app.

These tips work with both the Mac and iOS version of Fantastical. To create a Reminder instead of a calendar entry, start a sentence with “reminder”, “todo” or “task”: :::text todo Post Fantastical tips Saturday at 7pm Use the keyboard shortcut ⌥-V on the Mac to prefix with a check mark (✔) and automatically toggle an entry to a Reminder. Include basic date logic in an entry. Fantastical will take care of figuring out the date:

Glassboard, Google+, Viber, Patter, Wordpress, Basecamp, I’ve tried a lot of collaborative messaging services. Every one of them has been a terrible experience for what I needed. They either lacked native clients or notifications or basic document sharing. Slack just sucked the oxygen out of the collaborative work-room.1 I collaborate on several personal projects. Back when Erik and I were working on Critic Markup, we looked high and low for a collaborative messaging system that supported code syntax highlighting, file sharing and threaded messages with notifications.

Here on the hemisphere I inhabit, it’s winter, which means bad weather is the norm. While I like a simple weather app as much as the next faux-designer I also like to know how bad my day is going to get. MyRadar Pro is an old iPhone weather app that was just redesigned for iOS7 and it’s not too shabby. The primary purpose of MyRadar is to provide a simple weather radar.

On my recent expedition to switch away from OmniFocus, I investigated several alternatives. On of those that I found very compelling and surprising was iThoughts. It may be shocking to learn this, but iThoughts makes for a very competent task management manager if it fits your basic requirements. What sets iThoughts apart from any other task manager is the completely new perspective it provides for task and project relationships.1 Dependencies and complexity are immediately obvious in a context map.

I haven’t done a Pythonista post in awhile. So, here are three cool things about Pythonista for iOS: Primary School Class on Programming with Pythonista Backup Your Contacts with Launch Center Pro, Drafts, and Pythonista TaskPaper Query and Syntax Highlighting

I thought I’d write a tome about the Phraseology update but why, when Eric Pramono does such an excellent review. Seriously, this is a good review for a an app I like a lot. What I can say about Phraseology 2.0 is that I love it for reviewing things I’ve written. I don’t use it as my primary writing tool, but I do like to send the text in for editing.

Greg Knauss released Romantimatic last week and received a surprisng amount of indignation. I understand the need to draw conclusions about the intentions of others from our own internal dialogs, but it’s always surprising how far people take it. I like Romantimatic. It’s a reminder system for sending kind little notes to the person I care about. It’s similar to birthday reminders in a calendar, but more intimate and focused on one single “sweetheart”.

This is part two in the series. In part one, I discussed the rules and detail designs of a plain text based task management experiment. The tag and project structure in the TaskPaper format is flexible and easy to comprehend. But the system is only as good as the tools available for working with the documents. In this article, I’ll document a broad set of tools available on various platforms for working with TaskPaper documents.