06.28.06
Posted in TextMate, GTD at 2:45 pm by Haris
One of the lesser known features of the [GTDAlt] bundle is its handling of links. Suppose that you are in a line in your notes where something like this appears:
Then pressing ctrl-L opens this page (in your default browser). What might be not well known is that the same happens with mail links, e.g.:
will open your mail client and prepare an email to who@there.com. I might consider adding the rest of the note as default title for the email. More importantly, you can have links to files in your drive:
Then ctrl-L opens this file in the default application for it. You can create such a link by dragging a file with extension txt, gtd or markdown. You can add more admissible extensions by editing the file types allowed by the drag command in the bundle.
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06.27.06
Posted in TextMate, GTD at 10:15 am by Haris
The GTDALT bundle now contains a script that processes an “Inbox file” for actions, and distributes them to appropriate places. The purpose of this script is to be used in conjunction with a program like Quicksilver. You use Quicksilver to append such lines to the inbox as described here. Then when you are ready to review things, you run the script. The script has not been tested extensively, so be careful the first couple of times you use it. It keeps backups, so theoretically you would not lose data.
The following is from the help file INBOX.txt from within the bundle.
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06.25.06
Posted in TextMate at 11:32 pm by Haris
You probably all know snippets by now, those extremely useful tools that TextMate puts at our disposal. Garrett Dimon has a very nice discussion of them, and the manual section is trully awesome. This post shows you a tiny bit of what you can do using commands that behave like snippets.
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Posted in TextMate, ruby/rails, GTD at 12:17 am by Haris
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The GTDAlt bundle now lives in the Subversion Repository of Bundles for TextMate. You can find details on how to access bundles this way here. The version on my website linked to below will NOT be updated any more.
I apologize for the inconvenience to those of you not using subversion, but I can assure you that following the above instructions is pretty painless, and the benefits to my sanity and general state of mind are too numerous to list here.
Update: You can find a more recent description of the workflow while working with the GTDAlt bundle here. It’s a work in progress.
This is a general help file for the GTDAlt bundle, one of the two bundles for implementing GTD in TextMate. You can also access this file from within the TextMate bundle. This file consists of three parts. The first part is an introduction to the bundle, describing how to use it. The second describes its internals, describing how to extend the bundle. The third is an example of creating a new command.
You can also find some pretty lame screencasts here, as well as a converter to convert your Kinkless GTD project to this format here.
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06.22.06
Posted in TextMate, LaTeX at 8:07 pm by Haris
This is just a quick entry to reference to clear the problems with the syncing between TextMate and Texniscope on the Intel Macs, that were discussed in the comments to this post. You will need:
- The Rosetta version of Texniscope, i.e. the non-native one, that can be found here.
- An updated version of the LaTeX bundle for TextMate. This contains a fix for the “Find in TeXniscope” command, whose main difference from the old one is that the line:
FILE=`basename "$TM_LATEX_MASTER"`
has been replaced by the line:
FILE="$TM_LATEX_MASTER"
- Well, pdfsync I guess.
With this setup, TeXing and syncing back and forth between TeXniscope and TextMate should be a breeze.
Thanks to mdadm for all his help and testing with this. Both of these fixes are really his.
Later
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