Okay, that last thing sounds great--how does that work? I am trying to find some sort of ebay shopping alert for the whole web/world. That looks like one part of it.
I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
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§ ita § - Sep 22, 2012 9:27:06 am PDT #21013 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
le nubian - Sep 22, 2012 9:46:49 am PDT #21014 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
for example, go to imdb page for upcoming movie. bookmark it in springpad (I have a movies notebook and a book notebook).
it should auto read the data and set up an alert.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2012 9:53:19 am PDT #21015 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, I springed The Hobbit. What's gonna happen????
I guess I should have picked one I know less explicit info about, huh? But this sounds fab.
le nubian - Sep 22, 2012 10:13:35 am PDT #21016 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
so I just did it for Looper (pick a more recent movie to see what I mean).
It comes out next week, and I get rotten tomatoes rating and in the "alerts" section of Springpad, I get notifications when books change price, I got a notification when JGL showed up on Letterman (right?), when movies I have bookmarked show up on Netflix instant.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2012 10:24:03 am PDT #21017 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, I'll find something a bit closer to now to test with and see what happens. What sources does it use for books--the one you used when you springed, or others across the web?
I need a crash course in the things it does that Evernote doesn't. I don't think I'll likely switch over for the overlap, but it looks like there's some cool actions it can take.
Mildly relatedly, I wish Windows and OS X had a share button in each app so that I could bop content from one program to another. My grown up operating systems are jealous of that...
le nubian - Sep 22, 2012 10:27:20 am PDT #21018 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yeah, I tend to prefer Evernote, but I use Springpad for stuff like this. My problem right now is that Evenote has SO much stuff in it. I have been using it daily for years. I don't use tags. So Evernote is a bit of a hot mess.
I need to cull it.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2012 10:37:43 am PDT #21019 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I use tags when I enter notes, but I've never used them retrieving. I intend to create archival notebooks so that I don't lose content, but it's not right *there*, but I haven't wrapped my head around the best way to do that yet.
I have to say, I fucking love the OCR. I did a search for something when I was on the phone with tech support, and the hit was in the photo in one of my serial number notes.
Unrelated Mountain Lion question: What is the advantage of the Launchpad over the previous Applications folder metaphor?
le nubian - Sep 22, 2012 10:39:37 am PDT #21020 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
IMO, none.
but I will let others weigh in. I hate Launchpad.
Cass - Sep 22, 2012 11:41:32 am PDT #21021 of 25501
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Unrelated Mountain Lion question: What is the advantage of the Launchpad over the previous Applications folder metaphor?
I assume to annoy me so much that I don't use it.
Liese S. - Sep 22, 2012 1:23:27 pm PDT #21022 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I love that part of Evernote. I use it all the damn time. Seriously, all day long. I do need to organize a little better, but it's not bad.
What I did was create an Archival notebook stack, and I push off completed stuff to that. So there's a notebook there that holds old errand lists, and there's one that has previous bands' tech riders. That one in particular is handy, because I don't need the info except when I'm throwing the show, but it's nice to be able to go back and say, hey is your rider the same as last year?