07:58 pm - Indexes or Indices?
You can tell I've been spending waaaaay too long looking at the Bindings inspector in Interface Builder because the following point is driving me crazy:
NSTableView exposes a binding called SelectionIndexes. Everything in my mind insists that this should really be called SelectionIndices, indices being the plural of index. I looked it up, and Answers.com (the definition link on Google) lists indexes and indices as two alternative plural forms of index.
Has that always been true, or are we adopting new spellings for words because people are dumber now than before? Wasn't there a recently published dictionary that made a misspelling official because everyone was doing it? Hazy memory says that they made loosing equivalent to losing, but I may be wrong.
The Wittgenstein fans at the back can just keep quiet for now, ok?
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09:54 pm - GTD.app - something I'm toying with
So I've been playing a bit with this GTD-esque app. It's basically a detailed exercise for me to learn Core Data and CD and I are getting along pretty well together.
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Its design owes a fair bit to Kinkless GTD. The idea is simple, as is GTD itself - you have tasks and projects. Tasks can be in one or zero projects and be associated with one context. Every task appears under All Tasks, only tasks with their Next Action flag set appear in that special group. You can drag tasks to projects to add or move them to that project.
You can switch the source list to show Projects, Contexts or Tags and then view the tasks associated with any of them in the list at the top right. It makes a lot more sense when you see it. Here's a quick movie (~900k).
I haven't even spent a day seriously using this yet, so I don't yet know if I could live with it myself.
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