I’ve never been much of one for New Year’s resolutions, but I do need to get a little more organized. Since I’m a mac user, I’ve been trying to get more of my schedule and todo-list into iCal.
I especially wanted recurring todos: a daily reminder to take a vitamin, a monthly checklist of bills to be paid, a weekly note to clean the shower. However, iCal only provides an ability to create recurring events; poor little todos are left out in the cold, dark world of the limited feature set. Luckily for me, an intrepid blogger published his hack to accomplish just this. I’ve edited his script to add the ability to recognize monthly recurring events and to transfer the notes field along with the event. (If you need these features, follow his directions, but use this script instead.) Thanks Alex!
So far iCal todos are working well. The combination of auto-generated regularly occurring items and manually added entries offers the flexibility and automation I wanted. The notes field allows me to elaborate on the steps involved in achieving particular goal, include the phone number of someone I need to contact, or associate all sorts of other useful information with the items. The ultimate selling point of using iCal is of course that I can sync my calendars and todo lists and their associated notes with the iPod nano I already carry around everywhere.
So if you’re looking for me, I’ll be the geek wandering through the grocery store reading my grocery list off my iPod.