Image based on Moody intro window.

That's my interpretation of the situation. Next to all the other metadata from which to create playlists, Moody's 4x4 grid offers an intuitive and fast shortcut to selecting songs.

Keeping in touch with people is not my forte. I don't need the daily blabla, but realize that i want to get better at this and follow-up with people whom I haven't contacted in a while. Often you just know whom you should talk to, but with a growing contact list in Address Book, I want to get some computing power involved in facilitating this task.

Even before the final release, Things is so useful and usable, that it is one of my always-open apps. With the features to come, I bet there will be little in the way of managing projects of any size - anything from watering your plants to organizing the Olympics.

Today's update implements recurring tasks.

Things will be released this Spring. It will enable you to set recurring tasks - something iCal does not. A useful review of task management apps at putthingsoff.com mentiones that Things might also integrate with iCal.

Today I restored an Excel file with Time Machine for the first time. This saved me about 30 minutes of redoing a task. I am glad the backup interval is hourly, which i was reluctant to accept in the beginning. I thought about tweaking the backup interval, but now concede that this is unnecessary.

“A good mix is really more about energy than genre.” Brilliant.

I wanna hug a bunch of programmers today. You´re the guys who fuel the enterprise; who let me launch a new task gracefully; who make me stride across the valley of forgotten talent; who make me toggle things; who revoke the human-machine chasm; who make me growl and whine at the same time; who burn the bridges to a childhood when I sat in the grass with no hint of geek-lust.

I ran across Timeline by SIMILE today. Being weary of using Excel to create timelines, i was sure there must be something slicker out there. Lifehacker offers a good introduction to Timeline: Geek to Live: Roll your own timeline.

Timeline is “a DHTML AJAX timeline widget for visualizing temporal information. It is like Google Maps for time-based information.”