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Software that I paid money for

Published on February 15, 2009 in Organization. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

In response to all this hub­bub about YACHT being a pirate, I’ve been think­ing about what soft­ware I’ve pur­chased. So here, more or less, com­pre­hen­sive as hell, my list:

  • Every “major” prod­uct that Panic has made includ­ing Trans­mit, Coda, and Uni­son. I used Uni­son a lot ini­tially, but I can’t say I’ve opened it in a while.
  • BBE­dit, which I bought a long time ago and has since retired from my appli­ca­tions folder. I loved it.
  • Text­Mate, which came as a replace­ment for BBE­dit. Suck­ily, I found Text­Mate just before Coda came out. I still use it from time to time though.
  • Adobe CS2/Macromedia Stuff 8. (Before the merger, I haven’t delved into CS4 yet, but I’ve heard many bad things.)
  • QuarkX­Press 7, still my favorite page lay­out application.
  • Ecto, which I haven’t used in a long time, but it was the blog­ging tool for me.
  • I upgraded OmniOut­liner from 2 to 3, and I’ve almost pur­chased Omni­Web sev­eral times.
  • Remem­ber The Milk pro, for the Black­berry syncing. 
  • And of course Flickr.

(A lot of the other soft­ware I use is freeware… Also, I’ve been think­ing about pur­chas­ing FontExplorer.)

Ongoing Organization: Gmail Filters

Published on June 23, 2008 in Internet and Organization. 0 Comments

labels.pngI’ve been really inter­ested in orga­niz­ing all my email mes­sages. But I don’t really want to go through every sin­gle mes­sage to do that. Today I tried to make some fil­ters in Gmail to at least get some gen­eral organization.

First I attempted to get all money related emails into one place.
To do this I looked for all the email addresses of my banks, stu­dent loans, online buying/selling, that kind of stuff. At first I was get­ting every address, but I real­ized it would be much faster to grab whole domains. So this is what I did.
from:(@cems.wamu.com OR @ebay.com OR @amazon.com OR @wellsfargo.com OR @mint.com OR @checkout.google.com OR @paypal.com OR billing@dreamhost.com)

Then I wanted to try and orga­nize emails with attach­ments by file type.

For images
Has the words:(.jpg OR .jpeg OR .gif OR .png) has:attachment

For media
Has the words:(.avi OR .mov OR .mp3 OR .m4a) has:attachment
For doc­u­ments
Has the words:(.pdf OR .doc OR .docx OR .xls OR .xlsx OR .ppt OR .pptx OR .oo3) has:attachment

For design
Has the words:(.ai OR .psd OR .indd OR .qxd) has:attachment

The one prob­lem that I’ve run into so far with this is with PDFs. About half of the pdf emails are related design. This is also a prob­lem with Fire­works PNGs.

This is by no means com­plete. It is only a quick stab at email orga­ni­za­tion. Hence “ongo­ing.” If you have any ideas on how to improve this or any fil­ters you’ve set up that work well, comment.