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Fair warning: really boring post that's really poorly written.
Summary: I *really* like some software that came with Ubuntu.
I've diddled around with lots of PIM software and whatnot over the years. Neurotically I like things orderly and presented in a relatively minimalistic fashion, but I've never had the patience (or tolerance?) to actually sort my life into a format that fit happily into any of the various structures. I never truly loved anything I used before, but just recently I found a nifty new toy in Ubuntu that has improved my quality of life by about 28%.
The most expensive of these diddlings was sinking $100 into a Palm for the Palm Desktop and Calendar, but I never quite learned to like constantly carrying around a fragile and relatively expensive electronic device just so I could keep track of my life. I gave up on that, but luckily it wasn't a total loss--I got a great ebook reader out of it. Pocket calendars and pens are durable, cheap and portable, but there was never enough room for writing about things unrelated to my schedule, so they quickly became a reminder of only the obligation/negative side of life and were too depressing to keep up. The one thing that made me relatively happy was Treepad Lite, but it had a number of flaws. It was awful for calendar-related things, but I hated grouping all my life into one single tree, and switching between multiple trees was too much of a hassle. But I liked it enough to almost buy an upgrade from the lite version to the more featureful standard version... almost.
Getting on to the shinier side of life, I recently installed Ubuntu, and it came with a wonderful little program called Tomboy Notes. It's exactly what I wanted. There's no rigid structuring dictating how I sort info or even what I do it all. It's simple, flexible, and, I dare say, fun! It's a little buggy still, and it's kinda limited to Linux computers only (so far as I know), but these are permissible flaws, and I'm sure workarounds are currently underway to solve them.
Summary: I *really* like some software that came with Ubuntu.
I've diddled around with lots of PIM software and whatnot over the years. Neurotically I like things orderly and presented in a relatively minimalistic fashion, but I've never had the patience (or tolerance?) to actually sort my life into a format that fit happily into any of the various structures. I never truly loved anything I used before, but just recently I found a nifty new toy in Ubuntu that has improved my quality of life by about 28%.
The most expensive of these diddlings was sinking $100 into a Palm for the Palm Desktop and Calendar, but I never quite learned to like constantly carrying around a fragile and relatively expensive electronic device just so I could keep track of my life. I gave up on that, but luckily it wasn't a total loss--I got a great ebook reader out of it. Pocket calendars and pens are durable, cheap and portable, but there was never enough room for writing about things unrelated to my schedule, so they quickly became a reminder of only the obligation/negative side of life and were too depressing to keep up. The one thing that made me relatively happy was Treepad Lite, but it had a number of flaws. It was awful for calendar-related things, but I hated grouping all my life into one single tree, and switching between multiple trees was too much of a hassle. But I liked it enough to almost buy an upgrade from the lite version to the more featureful standard version... almost.
Getting on to the shinier side of life, I recently installed Ubuntu, and it came with a wonderful little program called Tomboy Notes. It's exactly what I wanted. There's no rigid structuring dictating how I sort info or even what I do it all. It's simple, flexible, and, I dare say, fun! It's a little buggy still, and it's kinda limited to Linux computers only (so far as I know), but these are permissible flaws, and I'm sure workarounds are currently underway to solve them.