That time of year again.

[andrewducker]

Couldn't get to sleep until one am. Woke up at six forty five. Finished packing (packing list brain dump made much easier thanks to Workflowy), and got a taxi to the bus station sensibly early, now waiting for my coach. For some reason half of the stances are empty and the one I'm waiting at has six departures in half an hour and is therefore surrounded by a horde of warmly wrapped zombiestravelers.

Made a quick dash to the nearby Greggs, got a sandwich and drink for breakfast, and then discovered that the toilets have a turnstile. Which means I can't get in with the suitcase (full of the presents that managed to arrive despite the snow), and there's nowhere to leave it. Am therefore going to skip the drink.

Update - thirty seconds later the coach turned up, driver took my case and told me I had ten minutes to dash to the loo while she grabbed a coffee. Glad to see security theater hasn't taken over the while transport system...

Only bad news so far is the the cottage wifi isn't working. Apparently the router isn't where it should be. So internet will be sporadic. Irritating, but not the end of the world. I'm just glad I bought three books with.

Comments

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Aiee! Bad wifi is almost as bad as no internets at all! The horror! The horror!

:)

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

I can highly recommend kindle app btw. Carting around the hitchhikers quintology has been actually quite nice while drinking coffee in town the last couple of days.

[andrewducker]

Cheers. I have an actual ebook reader, but sadly it's lost in a box.

[andrewducker]

I suspect I'll be using my phone as a hotspot...

[andrewducker]

This post made possible thanks to Swype, an absolutely fabulous keyboard replacement for android. And ljbeetle, which is a better android client than I was expecting.

Now, if only mobile lj supported friends filters (or there was an Android reading app) I'd be happy...

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

I have been investigating workflowy. I don't get it. What makes it better than, say, excel, which is what I use for that just now?

Hope your trip goes ok!

Lizzie x

[andrewducker]

For hierarchical lists it seems a lot faster to me. And it's in the web, so available on any computer I'm on.

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

Hmm ok. I will continue to investigate. Thanks for the tip

[andrewducker]

Ok, now I have an actual computer to write a reply with...

I like its simplicity. With Excel I have to think about organisation, and how to denote "done" versus "todo", and what extra information to put in. Workflowy is just an indented list.
I love that it has keyboard shortcuts for pretty much everything. So I can press ctrl-enter to mark something done, for instance.
If I want a powerful tool for todo lists then I use ToDoList:
http://www.abstractspoon.com/tdl_resources.html
which is absolutely awesome, and does everything I'd want when it comes to single-user lists. It's heirarchical, has priorities, to-do dates, etc.
But when I just want a list of things to get done today, Workflowy is a great braindumping spot.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

What, no wifi?

Suddenly I am snowed in!

If we were only getting our windows mobile 7 phones a touch earlier I could be a hotspot too. If only :'(

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

You sure one of your siblings hasn't sabotaged the wifi? Ach if all else fails you can build Lego Star Wars.