• Google Documents API Released - I wonder what kind of Quicksilver plug-in you could cook up with this.
• The Sound of Young America: I'm going on vacation. - Jesse Thorn's gone on vacation, leaving the Maximum Fun keys with Paul Scheer (Human Giant), Bill Hader (SNL), and yours truly. My first post is an Archive.org lovefest. Stay tuned for more theoretical awesomeness.
• Pick Your YouTube Preview Picture - This is cool enough, but I love how Blip.tv lets you upload your own thumbnail. That's the cheese. (Nobody asked me, but if I were Tay Zonday I'd pick this frame for Chocolate Rain [n.b.: pages make noise])
• [ Tagamac ] [ Tagging best practices ] - Tagging is one domain where I am completely adrift and will happily take all of the help I can get. [via: Daring Fireball]
• Doin' it, delegatin' it, deferrin' it - "David Allen Has a Posse" [via: Drew Bell]

Short Subject: Now You're Talking (1927)

prosaic [on email]

Chris Streeter picks up on a thread that I've been thinking about a lot lately (and he's kind to mention the relationship to Inbox Zero).

He reminds us that the etiquette for using a telephone was once well-established enough to earn a place in the encyclopedia:

Etsy :: show me your action list and i will show you my inbox

Awesome.

[via: Kelly Sue]

TaskPaper

Jesse Grosjean from Hog Bay Software has just begun sharing the first releases of a new task-tracking app which adopts a refreshingly stripped-down approach to managing action on a Mac. TaskPaper starts with the simplicity of text files then adds just a bit of Mac magic to make it both smarter and prettier, but without giving up portability and ease of use. Jesse says:

TaskPaper makes it easy to create a list of your projects and their tasks so that you always know what needs to be done. It's simple to reorganize the list, create new items, mark items as done, and delete items that your finished with. You can also assign contexts (such as "home", "office", or "car") to your tasks so that you can later generate lists of all tasks assigned to a specific context.

43F Podcast: Inbox Zero - Google Tech Talk

A lot of folks with slower connections (or who just aren't crazy about internet video) have written to request an audio version of the Tech Talk on Inbox Zero I gave at Google last Monday. Google has very kindly permitted me to share that with you, so here you go. Thanks to everyone who wrote to request it.

Grab the MP3, learn more at Odeo.com, or just listen from here: