Welcome to Daily(ish) for, Wednesday, 05/09/2018. It's 12 degrees, feels like nine degrees. Sorry yet again. Lying weather, but this is not a lying weather podcast. Thanks to Patreon supporters at patreon.com/ichris for supporting the podcasting I do and that we do at Good Stuff.
Speaker 1:Your support is very much appreciated and does not go unnoticed. Hopefully, you are well aware even if I don't have specialized content for y'all, at this time anyways, but I appreciate your support ongoing. First of all, I said on I think on episode two forty eight that episode two fifty might be like a reset, a bit of a recalibration letting folks know who are maybe just jumping in on the whole daily ish thing what's going on and why, but, I think I'll save that for a future date because there's just other stuff to talk about. And numbers are just numbers and don't really matter really. Right?
Speaker 1:In our good stuff subreddits, Moondays asks, after the last episode, episode two forty nine, wondering why I changed apps. I think she's referring to why I changed to do apps and then sort of tracking app of, tracking to dos. And I changed from Todoist, which I've been with for a year and a half, two years, somewhere in there. And, I think I definitely paid twice for a subscription with them and changed to an app called TickTick, which, is a weird kind of name for an app, but so is Todoist. And the main reason why honestly is because if I could sum it all up, it'd be it's the same but cheaper.
Speaker 1:That's like really that's how much, how cheap I guess I am that it was worth switching moving all my scheduled and reoccurring to dos and current to do things from Todoist to TickTick. There's other things like it has a TickTick has a really nice calendar view where you can actually rearrange if you set say record daily or shots, 3PM on Wednesday in your as a to do item that reoccurs every Wednesday. You can move look at a calendar view along with your other calendar items and drag that around to a different date, and it'll automatically adjust the, obviously, the corresponding due date for that to do when it should appear. It also supports things like, once you've so not not only, like, reoccurring, like, every Monday at 2PM, do this thing, but it also supports when I've done this, then schedule another time seven days later or fourteen days later. A lot of to do apps that I I think Todoist is the same.
Speaker 1:It may have this now, but at one point, it only had the ability to, like, every Monday at this time, do this thing. So even if you did it on let's say it was take out the garbage on Wednesday or have a shower or whatever thing that you need to remind yourself to do, it would just automatically appear the next week at that exact same time. So having a a task that is not necessarily due on the same day, but you want you don't need to do it again until a week or a month or whatever later is kinda handy. So, like, for our furnace filter, I have every three months add a, or replace the furnace filter, and then automatically whenever I do this because sometimes I don't do it on the exact day, but let's say I wait a week or maybe it hasn't been the furnace hasn't been going for a while, then I will it'll automatically set a new reminder three months from whenever I actually check that item off in TickTick for changing the furnace filter. There's also a built in Pomo timer, Pomodoro timer, which is like for setting yourself a task or setting yourself a timer for a task, let's say twenty five minutes that you're you're gonna do it for and not going over that.
Speaker 1:You're only doing that and then taking a break and doing a different task has that built in. Don't really use that part of it. Has a it it looks a little nicer. The the other main sort of feature to it that I really like on the Mac anyways is inside the app, you press command n to add a new task, which is a sort of standard system wide way of starting a new thing in whatever app you're in. So in logic, you hit command n, it opens a new project.
Speaker 1:In in, pages or in email program or in a browser, it's like a new blank version of whatever app you're in. And, Todoist was q, which is shorter than command n, obviously. It's one command one key instead of two, but it's completely breaks with my brain's conventional Mac sort of interface. And they wouldn't they weren't gonna change it, I know. And it's silly again.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't have changed apps just for that reason alone, but having, TickTick's sort of default new new task command, be the standard system wide one was also another motivating factor in switching. Command f also works to find in TickTick, which I don't think it had the command f in Todoist. I could be wrong there though, which is again a system wide. If you're gonna have a search in your app, you use command f. It's I think fairly system wide anyways.
Speaker 1:And as I record, I just got the, system alert for Saskatchewan saying that, there's a they're doing a test of the, emergency broadcasting system, I guess, or whatever it's called for for sending out a text message if there was some sort of, I don't know. What do we have in Saskatchewan? I guess maybe a tornado. Not not earthquakes. No.
Speaker 1:Maybe a blizzard, I guess. But, if you're getting a text about a blizzard, it's probably too late because you're stuck in it if you're not already at home. Anyways, I'm not it's a good idea to have those kind of things obviously, but all of Saskatchewan is basically tweeting or Facebooking about getting or not getting as the case may be, text message alert. And, I'm sure at various at your office or at the mall or wherever you happen to be when the alert went out, everybody around you all this all the everybody's phones basically started, you know, buzzing this crazy alarm. They weren't either were expecting because they saw the a warning that was coming or had no idea it was coming, and all of a sudden their phones are going off like crazy.
Speaker 1:And everybody around them's phone is going off like crazy, which would kinda be, you know, kinda freaky and make you think maybe the zombie apocalypse was happening and you missed your chance to get into the nuclear fallout shelter. But, so far, I guess I can just know that I'll at least get the alerts and I hopefully will survive because I don't leave my basement really ever. Alright. That's it for this episode. If you were if you're a Patreon supporter of me at patreon.com/ichris, you'd have should have an invite if you aren't already aware to the Discord, server, chat server that we have for Good Stuff supporters or any of the other shows on Good Stuff.
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Speaker 1:Discord is the new Slack, is the new messaging groups thing on the Internet basically. So, alright. That's it for this episode. I'll talk to you again on Friday, and hope you have a great week. And enjoy the weather, if you're able to wherever you are in the world.
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