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Mi Labeler, let me show you it
Thursday, 20 November 2008 10:37 pmI will freely admit this post will be of limited interest, but I'm quite happy with this result, and maybe you will be too, if you're a big 'ol label-making geek. :)
So, part of GTD is the importance of having labeled manila file-folders. I can corroborate that printed-label folders do work better than hand-printed labeled folders. Not only do they look good, there's something viscerally fun about filing something away in a new folder.
The GTD guy recommends buying an electronic label-maker. For a number of reasons (including: the clutter factor, the expensive label-tape they use, and typing on those chiclet keyboards annoys me) I've made do with printing onto a sheet of Avery 3x10 labels in OpenOffice. While this solves those problems, this still felt like "making do" because it takes OpenOffice a full minute to open, the template is a little mis-aligned, yadda yadda.
( So I found a little script, and extended it. )
And that's my labeler, which I figure is at least 5 times cheaper than the tape-label machines, going by the price of the refills.
Data can come from a unix pipe or from standard input. Turning a manual task into a unix pipe command is about as good as it gets, productivity-improvement-wise. (assuming it's not a stupid task in the first place).
Oh and also, if we decide to do them this year, I think it will work wonderfully on holiday address labels, even straight from an emacs buffer of addresses, because you pipe data to it.
So, part of GTD is the importance of having labeled manila file-folders. I can corroborate that printed-label folders do work better than hand-printed labeled folders. Not only do they look good, there's something viscerally fun about filing something away in a new folder.
The GTD guy recommends buying an electronic label-maker. For a number of reasons (including: the clutter factor, the expensive label-tape they use, and typing on those chiclet keyboards annoys me) I've made do with printing onto a sheet of Avery 3x10 labels in OpenOffice. While this solves those problems, this still felt like "making do" because it takes OpenOffice a full minute to open, the template is a little mis-aligned, yadda yadda.
( So I found a little script, and extended it. )
And that's my labeler, which I figure is at least 5 times cheaper than the tape-label machines, going by the price of the refills.
Data can come from a unix pipe or from standard input. Turning a manual task into a unix pipe command is about as good as it gets, productivity-improvement-wise. (assuming it's not a stupid task in the first place).
Oh and also, if we decide to do them this year, I think it will work wonderfully on holiday address labels, even straight from an emacs buffer of addresses, because you pipe data to it.
