Hello from Germany
Hi there,
after testing LB now for a while, I am on the go to catch a license maybe :-)
Would love to test the iphone-app aswell, are there any possibilities to get a "time-limited" demo like this is possible for developers now?
I had a time as a longtime-user of Things now, tried Omnifocus too, then got a pro-member of Remember the milk, landed at The Hit List (thanks MacHeist), which is very promising. But the great thing about LB is the overall-integration of tasks/projects and the calendar. The life balance-feature has to be tested the next days, really looking forward to it.
As a primary teacher and 2nd chief of our school with nearly 340 pupils, as a husband and a man loving to meet up with friends, as a mac-addicted and a web-worker, I am sailing the seas of time and work/life very rough.
So, any hints and discussions are welcome. Any teachers using LB here?
Great work is done with LB, hope to get some inspiration here at the forums.
Thanks for reading and nice and sunny easter-days.
With regards,
Thorsten
Hi Thorsten, Happy Easter to
Hi Thorsten,
Happy Easter to you! Glad to have you among us.
There isn't a time limited demo version of Life Balance (mostly due to the way the App Store works.)
However, we do have a video demo that we made using the simulator, that shows how the software is a little different on the iPhone side.
You can watch that here:
http://www.llamagraphics.com/video/iphone-demo.php
Hope that is helpful. I look forward to you starting a thread about teaching with Life Balance. This is my cousin's first year as a math teacher in CT!
Best wishes,
--Catherine--*
Getting my life in balance
Hello Catherine,
thanks for the warm welcome here.
I got some apps in the past for testing as a blogger I was. Either they gave me their apps via http://furbo.org/2008/08/06/beta-testing-on-iphone-20/ or Apple managed a way to give out 50 betas or so ..... but anyway, the simulator-way is enough for me to see I need that one :-)
The thread about teaching has to wait a while. My life is driven by me as a private person and a big part of living for my job. The job is divided into pieces of teaching my class, control the school´s business and things like that. On the other hand (the third? :-)) I have a lot of spare time activities like running (trail and street), crossgolfing, freaking out with my Macs and so on.
But I think LB could help me in my school-cases aswell. Then after reaching some steps here, I would be glad to give my experiences to the community.
Regards from Germany, for now I am leaving to meet some friends for BBQ :-)
Thorsten
Purchased the iPhone app and
Purchased the iPhone app and the Mac app now. The next days I want to read some articles in my reading-slots of time and then, once my life balance-table is set up, I will write some articles myself I think.
Glad to found such a community here!
Best,
Thorsten
Some ideas/pointers-to-pointers
gruesse aus england bei ein australier, macoholic (me too, btw)
i see from your other post that you've already taken the plunge, so i'll just talk to your "any hints or discussions... some inpiration" request
short answer:
pile into the "Using Life Balance Effectively" forum topic. it's far and away the most important, despite lurking invisibly down the bottom of distractingly-otherwards-focussed section 1 just above very-specific-problems section 2.
in particular, there was some monster work/contributions made about 5-6years ago (eg ~p20), particularly by the man-monster "ratz" (bob).
more specific answer:
"Places" is well worth some serious thought. it can help to think of them as "Contexts" rather than merely physical places. eg, i have a "Heading home from work" place which i check as i pack up at the end of the workday. it includes Places like "Groceries" and "Chemist" to remind me to, say, grab some urgently needed Milk on the way home, and also to make any personal calls that are better made in/near work-hours that i didn't get time to do at lunch (eg, "i have now received the invoice you re-sent, cheque's going out tonight, thanks very much for checking before going medieval on my a*se", "hi, yes, that new job DOES look interesting, i'll send you an updated CV this weekend").
more-more specific answers:
well actually before i start them, be aware that LB is almost infinitely adaptable to however you want to prioritise your time and how you want to approach that. initially this can be a bit baffling, or at least underrated. once you start to see HOW adaptable it is to how you prefer to work, the more enthusiastic you'll get.
so have a look at some of these varying approaches and see if any ring any bells or set off any lightbulb moments for you and your particular preferred approaches:
some specific ideas/posts to look at:
• [narrow] How do I set up packing for bike races? -- IDEA: Put a set of subtasks under the Bike Race task
http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/forums/using-life-balance-effectivel...
in particular, skip to the bolded "How it'll work" bit first, then go back and look again at the task setup.
and remember:
"Now, all this might look kinda huge and overkill, and taking up too much room on your screen. But setting it up is just a coupla minutes copy-pasting. And once it's in place, you can ignore it in your Outline because you can just keep the BikeRace task un-expanded. You'll only see "Bike Race", and can ignore all the little faff hidden beneath it."
• [broad] An AHA moment:
http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/forums/using-life-balance-effectivel...
• [broad] Where do the newbies go? :)
http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/forums/using-life-balance-effectivel...
• using LB in a Sales/Project Environment:
http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/forums/using-life-balance-effectivel...
• Routine but *long* interval tasks - certifications for registered nurse:
http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/forums/using-life-balance-effectivel...
• How To: MUST HAPPEN on Day X of Month Tasks
http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/forums/using-life-balance-effectivel...
• I still don't understand Places
http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/forums/using-life-balance-effectivel...
• GTD on LB:
http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/node/1086
but if you do nothing else, you should read the accidentally misleadingly titled ("my apologies it was meant to be an advanced article and the title suckered some people in") outstanding Ideas post, by none other than the legend, ratz:
"A Basic Approach to the Complex"
http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/node/1086
part 3: http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/forums/using-life-balance-effectivel... (skip down to his "corrected" sub-post)
part 4: http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/forums/using-life-balance-effectivel...
sorry: i can't quickly find part 2.
if you like what he's saying, perhaps spend some (more) time in the Search box. (and maybe let us know where it is if you find it ;)
cheers
darcy
Finding the way
Hello Darcy,
vielen Dank für das liebe "Willkommen".
Thanks for all the interesting links, read them all (many very intensive, some just scanned for now), in each posting and thread there are some gems to remember. But I think the best way is to see all the gone paths and then find the own way for life balancing with LB.
Great work you´ve done, thanks again and I hope that I could give some "aspects" back in the further time.
Regards from Deutschland,
Thorsten
Great resource for newbies
Darcy,
Nice job linking to a bunch of useful threads & posts. I remember reading many of them as I was setting up, and then fine-tuning, LB "back in the day". :)
Your post is a great resource for newcomers.
Well done!
Cheers,
Tim