dogMelon Note Studio

[lemayp]

Hello Everyone,

I received few days ago an email from the company who created the GTD system and in their publication I saw that they have created a new software that perform a 2 minutes countdown... Why 2 minutes? Those people familliar with GTD knows that in his approach, David Allen says that if you have a less than 2 minutes task to perform, you must do it now and complete it, otherwise, you must note the task and scheduled it properly...

So, the little timer is there to help you see if a task that you have started is more than 2 minutes.

I found that such little program could be a good tool, specially when you are working on your emails and don't realise if you are taking more than 2 minutes or not on a particular email that you are reading or replying to...

But, the bad thing is that such tool is currently for sale at 10$, so I deceided to create my own and integrate it with NS.

I have a first beta release of it available. It is very basic, but do the job. This first beta version doesn't come with any readme for now and I will try to polish it. Meanwhile, if some people use it and share ideas/comments, I could probably see what I could do prior of posting a first release 1.0.

To use it simply install it in the NS plugin directory and start it as other plugin. You can leave it running for as long as you want, even if you minimize NS and start working on another application, the plugin will remains available for you while you are doing something else (ex: reading emails). There are 2 buttons, a RESTART one, to restart the 2 minutes countdown (ex: you have finished reading an email and ready to read the next one), and a STOP, to set the countdown to 0. If the countdown reach 0, a little beep will be emitted.

So take a look and let me know if you have any comments.

Pierre

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsplugin

PS: I haven't ran it on Mac, so if you are a Mac user and are able to run it properly let me know (Le message est spécialement pour toi Luc. Si t'as la chance, envois moi un screen shot a partir de ton mac!!!)

PS: Maybe I should start enabling the "Donate" feature on sourceforge.net... and start dreaming about a new Porshe car or something...

[volker]

Pierre,

this one is great, thank you!

On the palm I am using Tik Tok (GPL free software). That program lets me measure how long it really takes to do certain tasks. And sometimes I am really surprised. A real eye-opener.

-- Volker

[lemayp]

MAC user: please wait as I am working on a program exit problem reported by lufad. Please wait for next version...

[lemayp]

Version 0.1.1 Beta has been released and contains the important fix for MAC user (Thanks Luc for working late yesterday night with me testing my fixes!!). The problem observed on Mac also affect the Windows platform although the symptoms were invisible, and for this reason I recommend all users to upgrade to release 0.1.1 when possible.

Good to see that a lot of people have downloaded the plugin even if it has been release since few hours only...

Enjoy,

Pierre

PS: Mac User, please take a look at the release notes.

[lemayp]

The GTDTimer V0.1.1 has also been released as a Win32 executable for those of you (or your friends) who don't have NoteStudio and would like to have access to the feature provided by the GTDTimer.

Simply download the GTDTimer_WIN_EXE_V0.1.0.zip file, extract completely the GTDTimer directory somewhere on your filesystem, and run the GTDTimer.exe stored in the GTDTimer directory.

Please provide some feedback to confirm this new way of providing my tool is working properly.

Regards,

Pierre

[lemayp]

Hello Everyone,

as you, I am waiting for the next release version 3.3.2 of NoteStudio, particularly because it will introduce an important fix required in order to be able to execute a new Tool that I will make available as soon as that new version of NS will be introduced.

Meanwhile, I have deceided to make available updates to some of the plugins and new tools that don't requires the update, starting today with the GTDTimer. The 1.0.0 version update introduce:

- New GUI layout
- A new Note Studio Tool version to be used inside of NS 3.3 and higher.

as started with the beta version, the plugin version AND the win32 executable remains available (win32 for those of you how don't have NS or your friends doing GTD without NS).

As of this morning, the entire set of NoteStudio plugins versions have been downloaded 1,105 times which is quite amazing, and revenues generated of the amount of 7.97$ ($10 - fee), competeting on the hour rate with China and India!!

Check for other updates of the plugins later in the coming days.

Enjoy,

- Pierre

Download it at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsplugin/

[butterfly9]

Hi Pierre,

Is there a way that you can make this plugin customizable as far as the amount of time it counts down? I know I can use other timers but it is not inside Note Studio



-Samantha

P.S. Your Plugin Tools are much better than floating windows IMO. THANKS.

[lemayp]

Samantha,

suggestion added to the wish list...

If you want to change the hardcoded 2 minutes value as a temporary workaround, change the line:

self.Timer.SetAlarms(120,self)

by changing the 120 seconds default timeout value.

regards,

-Pierre

[butterfly9]

Do I need any special software to do so? I cannot see it in notepad.

Thanks.

Samantha

[butterfly9]

Pierre,

I used the power of google and found that wordpad will open it. Thx for the quick fix.

Samantha

[lemayp]

Hello everyone,

just to let you know that I have created a new version of the GTDTimer plugin/tool/WinEXEC in order to introduce a "Set" button that will allow the possibility to set the timer value to something different from 2 minutes (120 seconds).

This new version, once again, is available as a NS tool, an NS Plugin or a Win32 executable.

Enjoy,

- Pierre

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsplugin/