A New Home

Over the last year or so No More Art has managed to collect a whole bunch of to do list thingies, project management systems, reminder systems and in general things that are a replacement for actually having a functioning memory and or brain, as we imagine lots of other folk have.

Web 2.0 has brought with it the idea of better, more functional and affordable web apps and we've taken the plunge accordingly in the name of efficiency and being more organised. We've recently heard the philosophy put forward that you shouldn't make lists as ultimately you're only listing your own failures but I'm not wholly sold on that, not yet at least.

Why have a iPhone if you're not going to use it to remind you about things? It's a fundamentally brilliant instrument for doing just that.

Anyhow in short we've been using:

On our PCs and Macs:

• Twitter (to Tweet out about what we're at, also to spout nonsense)
• Basecamp (to manage all of our projects in a collaborative fashion, which it does brilliantly)
• Remember the Milk (to remind us of stuff that isn't project based, such as meetings)
• Bluetie (stopped using, using Basecamp instead)
• Active Collab (again stopped using after tryout, moved to Basecamp)
• Google Apps (as an alternative to Microsoft Office)
• Google Reader (for keeping up with subscriptions and such)

We also dabbled in Google Calendar but left that behind.

On the iPhone:

• Remember the Milk App (As above in iPhone app form)
• Outpost (Basecamp software for the iPhone, excellent, best thus far)
• Groundwork (abandoned for Outpost)
• Google iPhone App (for using docs, calendar et all on the move)
• Tweetie (an excellent Twitter client, well worth the couple of quid)
• Twinkle (a decent Twitter client, but inferior to Tweetie)

And now of course you're thinking, "How the hell does having all that help?" Well, it's good but could be better. On the iPhone, click the app and you're in but it's on the PC / Mac that you can improve things.

So today, to escape the general frustration of having to deal with the utterly useless Bank of Ireland High Street Belfast branch among other things, we integrated all of the apps and systems we're still using into an iGoogle homepage putting, as Thom Yorke so rightly warbled, everything in its right place. And it only took about half an hour, which is nice.

So now when we hit the home button on ye olde Firefox, we have all of our pertinent info there in front of us, integrated and looking lovely thanks to an Ocean View theme we adopted also. Ah Google, everything we do we do it with you...

(Feel free to boke.)