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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Liese S. - Jul 26, 2013 5:54:23 pm PDT #22796 of 25497
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I think I'm trying remember the milk to start.


§ ita § - Jul 26, 2013 8:08:04 pm PDT #22797 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I take back what I said about the Toodledo product. It doesn't actually exist. There is a web back end, and a number of clients from various developers that work with it. I've been grabbing at a few, and it seems I like TppdleTasks well enough to pay for it on my phone while I evaluate the tablet version.

I have noticed, though, that ToodleDo having repeating tasks doesn't mean that all the clients do. This one does. I think I lost a task (at least to the non-recurring handling app I used to test it) with that experimentation. Though I would like an "other interval" option, but still. Like, I'd love an every 2 hour reminder for the headache log I'm about embark upon. Since writing an entry when I have a headache is kinda pointless.

I suspect ToodleTasks has GTD-oriented features, since the bits I don't understand smack of a methodology.t

Does anyone have any suggestions for incorporating business cards into Android's default contact manager? That would be optimal, and no, I don't want to replace contact pictures. I actually need more user features. Colin's gets changed every few months, but outside my immediate family and him, it's pretty dry.

I copy over all the info on each card I get, but it would be handy to have the image too--make me feel better about tossing the original.

Speaking of contacts--my main google accounts, where the contact info is supposed to live--fails to sync right "currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." But all the other accounts sync fine. My Mac syncs just fine--changes seem to populate--what's the what?


§ ita § - Jul 26, 2013 8:43:14 pm PDT #22798 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Just realised I have a demo version of Cam Card for that very purpose. Will evaluate.

Other stupid question: I'm making an appointment in my calendar (so my phone will tell me when to leave home--I like that), and now I need to type in the address.

WHY? Why do I need to type in am address that's in my address book? Am I missing how to trigger an appointment from the address book, or lookup from the calendar?

And...what does it take to get something into history? Do I need to enable auditing or anything?


Consuela - Jul 27, 2013 11:54:23 am PDT #22799 of 25497
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

ok, I have a weird thing happening. Got my new computer (11" Macbook Air) set up, and loaded Chrome.

When I hit "read new" on Buffistas, Chrome shows me the stuff in the window, but when I scroll down, the posts below the original window are empty, and I have to manually refresh the page to get them to show up.

... this is very weird. It's as though the rest of the page is spoiler-whited. And in fact I can read it by highlighting it, just as if it were spoiler-text.

Any ideas? I'm thinking this is a Chrome problem rather than a Buffistas problem, but really I don't know.


Consuela - Jul 27, 2013 11:54:55 am PDT #22800 of 25497
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

... and the post I just made doens't show up to me! Even though the rest of the page around it does, like this posting window.

Awesome.


-t - Jul 27, 2013 12:17:19 pm PDT #22801 of 25497
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

tommyrot had the same problem, Consuela tommyrot "Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."" Jul 26, 2013 10:02:40 am PDT

Not that I know what to do about it, but at least you know you have company?


§ ita § - Jul 27, 2013 1:49:46 pm PDT #22802 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The front page is unusable for me in Chrome, but other people seem not to be having that problem. I don't know--it may be lint checker time again.


Gris - Jul 28, 2013 4:16:37 am PDT #22803 of 25497
Hey. New board.

ita I am having a similar syncing issue, with my calendar rather than my contacts. I haven't been able to fix it and it is driving me slightly batty.


Gris - Jul 28, 2013 4:25:00 am PDT #22804 of 25497
Hey. New board.

Okay, removing the accounts and re adding them seems to have worked at least temporarily. Talk about annoying though.


le nubian - Jul 28, 2013 6:33:20 am PDT #22805 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

'Suela,

I think buffistas is having a rendering problem (or whatever the technical term is). Since the move, I have ginormous white spaces all over the site when i use chrome. I pretty much have gotten in the habit of doing command-A on the page and the highlight reveals all the text.