Weekplan, a creative and easy-to-use online TODO list

Weekplan is a new online TODO list. The author said it’s inspired by “Seven habits of highly effective people”, so I give it a try.

I think it shows us a really creative way to organize our todos. It has two views: Week and Vision. The week view is like:

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With the left part, you can edit your roles and goals. For GTDer, I think you can use it as a project list.

In the center of the page we can add todos for a week. There is a “Someday” column, which is very thoughtful.

At the bottom, you can add notes about things you have learned and you could do better.

For task edit, it supports drag and drop, priority (4 priorities marked in different colors) and map between goals and tasks. You can read the FAQ to get more details.

Summary:

  • Pros: I like its creative interface. It’s web based and quick enough. With the priority, I can mark the most import things for a day easily. With the project list and task view in the same page, I don’t have to jump among different pages to get all information about a project.
  • Cons: It doesn’t have any settings. For example, I want to remove Saturday and Monday from the task view. And I don’t know how to get history data. To edit or remove a task, you need to drag the task to the dialog box, which is a little weird.
  • Bottom line: I recommanded it to all people who are seaking a right TODO list. It’s worth a try.
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I’ve got 500 sentences in my anki

After a month’s study, I’ve got 500 sentences in my anki. Just take a snapshot as a souvenir.

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My top 10 apps on my ipod touch

News:

  • Instapaper: must have for my touch. It now even has a built-in dictionary
  • MobileRSS: work well with Google Reader; can share an article to instapaper

Note Taking:

  • Evernote: is not that useful due to the lack of a camera on touch

Book Reading:

  • Stanza
  • Good Reader: I’ve read a lot books on photograph on it, but now I’m expecting its iPad version

Dictionary:

  • LDOCE: the best dictionary for English learner; it’s even faster than the PC version.
  • Collins colbuild student’s ditionary: I like its explanations; they are simple and easy to understand.

Game:

  • PvZ
  • Street Filter IV

Others:

  • Anki mini: Iphone version of Anki, but you need to jailbreak.
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Lingoes 2.7: a good choice for english study

Lingoes 2.7’s mini window mode is really convenient. Open mini window and stick it on the top, enable its “Translate selected text”, when selecting a word, the translation will be shown on the mini window automatically. Very handy!

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First iPad review

http://www.macworld.com/article/150206/2010/03/ipad_reviews.html

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How to solve “word 2007 crash”

My word 2007 crash again and again. I find the following tips and it works.

Start regedit and find the path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Office/12.0/Word, change the folder “data” to “olddata” and “options” to “oldoptions”.

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How to “Improving your english vocabulary”?

I find a good article on how to improve english vocabulary: http://www.english-at-home.com/vocabulary/improving-your-vocabulary/.

I used to add the sentences read from books into Anki directly without adding them into a notebook. However, after a month’s study, I find that even I can pass Anki’s test on some words but I still cannot recall them when want to use them. Maybe it’s better to take a note at first and then add some of them into Anki.

In order to keep the question and answer pair in Anki simple enough to remember, I just use a sentence and the explanation for the difficult word in it. Sometimes, I still can’t get enough context of how to use this word. With a notebook, I can write something on it as much as I want.

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http://vi.sualize.us, a nice picture bookmark site

http://vi.sualize.us is social picture bookmard website. With it, you can bookmark or share your favourite pictures found on internet. Most photos on it are gorgeous.

It also has a firefox plugin to let us bookmark a picture easily.

However, I am wondering whether it has copyright problems.

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PMD plugin for eclipse works incorrectly

I use PMD plugin 3.2.6. Even I remove all rules and recheck my codes again, it still shows the result of the last check. It works after I restart eclipse.

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Switch to snipMate for VIM snippets

I used to use snippets_emu for VIM snippets. But I find snipMate is better, because its snippets are easier to define and more readable.

A snippet defination in snimMate is like:

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