I discovered GoodReads and created a list of books to read. I planned on having 42 books on there — we all know 42 is the only correct number — and ended up with 44. I’ll leave the extra two on, so I can skip a book or two because they suck.

Check out my readinglist: my before-buying-ebooks shelf:

Also, I created a reading list page with links to books I’ve read and books I want to read. I spent the day geeking out and tweaking Goodreads-wordpress-plugins so I can have my shelves show up nicely.

Very excited, it got shipped today and should arrive tomorrow. Snow might interfere so keeping my fingers crossed!

I don’t know if this always existed or if this feature appeared during some update. However, you can create subtask in OmniFocus on your iPhone. I didn’t know this at first and it frustrated me that I couldn’t, and then I figured it out.

Depending on how you start out, you have to do different things. For this example I’ll start in the ‘Projects’ list and in my ‘health’ folder. I have no current projects there.
Tap the plus in the lower right corner and create a new project if you need to.

For my example, I’ll create a project called ‘Make medical file’ (which I did, recently)

Tap on your newly created project (you might already have a project you want to change / add things in, if so, go there through the main screen and then ‘projects’, and skip all these previous steps ;) )

I have no actions yet, so I create one by taping the plus on the lower right side.

I want to start by making a list of my current medication, so I make an action of that.

Fill in the desired values, I’ve left most empty because I just want to make an example.

By going to the project list from the mainscreen you prevent things from disappearing on you, plus, you actually want to edit the project, so going through the project-list makes more sense.

I create a few more actions. To make my medication list I need to check my pill bottles for the exact name and dosage. I add these actions to the list.

The last two actions need to become subtask of ‘Make list of medication’ so I tap ‘Check bottle of pills #2′

And now, the magic happens!

Tap on that folder-icon on the bottomright.

You get a screen with the actions in your project, select your main task (‘Make list of medications’)

Repeat for all the tasks you need as subtasks.

You have subtasks.

To make my medical file, I used Scrivener, MultiMarkdown and eventually LaTeX.

First, I started out with a structure that made sense:

• Conditions (my various illnesses)
• Medication
• • current medication
• • • prescribed
• • • unprescribed
• • historic medication
• • • prescribed
• • • unprescribed
• Medical contacts
• • doctors
• • hospitals
• • pharmacy
• • insurance
• Surgeries
• Log
• Diagnostics

Then, for each of the these parts I made a folder in Scrivener and put files in it for each section or subsection. In ‘Log’ and ‘Diagnostics’ I put a folder for each year, and a file for each incident.

Using MultiMarkdown I could easily make the tables for my blood-tests in ‘Diagnostics’, and refer to different sections of the document. I put it all in Scrivener because that way I can keep important files in my Research folder and easily refer to those.

With the new ‘Folder Sync’ feature in Scrivener 2.0 I can easily sync all the files to a folder and transfer that to my EEE¹. I can either bring the EEE along with visits or a printed copy (or both, because with the EEE I can easily add new info to any of the files on the spot — saves me a lot of writing it down and then typing it in later).

Because MultiMarkdown easily converts to PDF (through LaTeX) I have a fancy printable file with a coversheet, an index, my name and the date printed on each page, and a table of contents. All of this automatically, no fiddling with layout and such required after the initial set-up.

It took me quite some time and energy to make this file, but I feel really good about it. I have a better idea of what we have tried already and when I visited who and when my last blood-tests were (need to get that vit. D checked again).

It also showed me I have roughly one hospital visit every two weeks (average for the last five years). Wow!

I use Textile for markup and suddenly, that caused issues. I tried switching it off, and switching to a lighter version, and I still had trouble editing and displaying posts. Eventually I deleted the WordPress files and installed them again and tried to get everything to work again as I wanted.

Then my RSS-feed broke and Feedburner started to complain.

I think I fixed it…

I really hope I did…

I received my new camera a few days ago and have enjoyed using it. It has some big advantages over my older camera (insane zoom, wide-angle, remembers settings between off-on, easier controls) and the only disadvantage so far seems the weight (something I can manage). On the left you can see a photo of my balcony from today, taken with the new camera. Below it, the one from last week, taken with the old.

The lettuces (in the middle in round grey pot) have done particularly well. More salads for me!

The following rule checks for the existence of various headers usually used by mailing-list and filters the mail into a mailbox with the list’s name:

Some mailing-lists don’t have a ‘List-Id’ and such, but they do have a ‘Sender’. For these I use:

For a lot of webforms I use an address with a ‘+’ in (a completely valid symbol in an e-mailaddress btw). If I’d need to use an address for say, google.com, I’d fill in ‘tannie+google@tanniespace’ (and .com ofcourse). To filter out these addresses to their own folder I use the following rule:

I added the following lines (changing the last line of my previous tweak to prevent confusion):

right before:

Note that I also added that last field in there (‘description’). I haven’t completely tested it, however, my limited tests seemed to work fine. I don’t really know much about php, so I probably used more lines than I needed. This way I could keep track of what I did though, and I think I’ll still understand my changes a couple of months from now.

Right after:

I added:

It worked as I wanted, so yay!

I’ve set up the same shortcut keys in Fastscripts.

Today I’ve also edited my task-list. I had too many things on them and felt overwhelmed. After listening to one of Michael Nobbs’ audioboo in which he mentioned his three things to do list and the twenty minute trick (I go for fifteen), and also mentioned that once something becomes a habit he just does it and doesn’t add it to the list anymore, I decided to remove a few items that I know I do anyway. It looks much smaller and much easier to manage.

I might actually go and do something today…