Marcelo Toledo Blog

startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia

October 2009

NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo, is the biggest writing contest in the world, but contest for what? Best novel? No way, it’s a contest against you, that always wanted to write a book and never managed to finish. In November, you need to reach 50.000 words, don’t worry about quality and editing, this is for december, november is the month to produce volume, it’s less then 2000 words a day. If you already tried to write anything, you’ll know that 2000 words a day is hard, but good enough to achieve. One other important thing is, no one will…

Readability and Design

Everyone noted the new layout? I’ve been using for quite some time now, an application called Readability, it’s a bookmark you put in your menubar and whenever the website you’re browsing is crappy to read, you just push this button and voila. It will magically add readability to the content. This theme change is all about design and readability, unfortunately you won’t have to use it in this website.

Things notify with Growl

Recently I started using Things as my Task manager, I’ve tested many others including the OmniFocus. In the beginning you might think that OmniFocus is more complete, but in the end you’ll see that they do the same job, with the difference that Things is much better designed. I was missing some tasks because I am very used to look at my iCal all the time, but not to Things. So I’ve turned on iCal sync and created my first two applescripts, one that will display using growl all your tasks in your Today box, and the other was made…