Monday, January 23, 2006
HOW TO HANDLE THE POSSIBLE
The MasterList takes a practical approach to applying a relational database to bring any action into context with any other action. This commonality of context is called a "project".
When it comes to action, the past is prologue. All meaningful action is either already irreversible or it is potential action. The MasterList deals with potential action. Potential action is action whose course can be changed. It is action in a direction, the direction of which can be changed.
The MasterList is an easy to use relational database for anybody who believes that what is not yet impossible is still possible; and, who thinks they can do something about it.
Tools of The MasterList. Space to define action in the context of a project with other actions. Flexible time and timing tools to create and to play with potential sequences of action. Free Form, organizeable notes at projects to mark and remember context. Instantaneous connectivity to anything relevant to any object in the form of computer-object linking. Priority markers. Search codes. Keyword search. Priority screens (such as the famous "My Day" screen that cuts across all, any, or any type of project.)
Anything that you can keep in play is not yet impossible. Whatever you cannot keep in play is lost and as good as impossible. The MasterList allows you to keep more in play than any other program on the planet. Amazingly, that still holds true.
The MasterList takes a practical approach to applying a relational database to bring any action into context with any other action. This commonality of context is called a "project".
When it comes to action, the past is prologue. All meaningful action is either already irreversible or it is potential action. The MasterList deals with potential action. Potential action is action whose course can be changed. It is action in a direction, the direction of which can be changed.
The MasterList is an easy to use relational database for anybody who believes that what is not yet impossible is still possible; and, who thinks they can do something about it.
Tools of The MasterList. Space to define action in the context of a project with other actions. Flexible time and timing tools to create and to play with potential sequences of action. Free Form, organizeable notes at projects to mark and remember context. Instantaneous connectivity to anything relevant to any object in the form of computer-object linking. Priority markers. Search codes. Keyword search. Priority screens (such as the famous "My Day" screen that cuts across all, any, or any type of project.)
Anything that you can keep in play is not yet impossible. Whatever you cannot keep in play is lost and as good as impossible. The MasterList allows you to keep more in play than any other program on the planet. Amazingly, that still holds true.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
MINDING THE ACTION
For purposes of action management, in professional or legal environments, a problem is a phenomenal disturbance in a field of composed elements.
The job of the professional is not only to compose complex fields that function in the real world towards some purpose, but to manage the disturbances that affect the "composure" of the field.
We maintain that the secret to maintaining the objective dual requirements of composure without, in the field, and within, in the professional, is to find a way of Minding the action.
Emily Dickenson wrote: "The secret lies in the center, and knows."
Without a centering concept, Minding the Action, can be reduced to a disintegrating process of desperate reactionism, characterized by less and less orchestrated confidence and more and more Hail Mary passes.
Though rarely admitted my any professionals, it is undisputed that the professional world outside and inside the self is filled with chaos and disorder, characterized by continuous surprise and anxiety. Instead of desperate passes at Action, achieving a centered technique is a more practical goal.
There are many techniques for achieving centering, including psychological and spiritual, which can set the stage for Minding Action, as opposed to constantly being the manic quarterback hero, or having to withdraw to a monastery where the high walls can keep all Action at bay.
The secret lies in the balanced, centered, middle.
What does it know?
That all the action is still out there, even when we are centered. But, how to handle it?
Use the mind. Use your faculties, not just your emotions and your senses. Use your intellectual faculties. Find tools that support your faculties.
The MasterList is a tool for Minding Action. The MasterList is a tool to Mind what you can't do in the moment, while you center on what you can or must do with focused, centered purpose.
Taking care of what you can't do now is an important part of the process of doing what you must do now. That's orchestration of action. That's the secret of The MasterList system.
For purposes of action management, in professional or legal environments, a problem is a phenomenal disturbance in a field of composed elements.
The job of the professional is not only to compose complex fields that function in the real world towards some purpose, but to manage the disturbances that affect the "composure" of the field.
We maintain that the secret to maintaining the objective dual requirements of composure without, in the field, and within, in the professional, is to find a way of Minding the action.
Emily Dickenson wrote: "The secret lies in the center, and knows."
Without a centering concept, Minding the Action, can be reduced to a disintegrating process of desperate reactionism, characterized by less and less orchestrated confidence and more and more Hail Mary passes.
Though rarely admitted my any professionals, it is undisputed that the professional world outside and inside the self is filled with chaos and disorder, characterized by continuous surprise and anxiety. Instead of desperate passes at Action, achieving a centered technique is a more practical goal.
There are many techniques for achieving centering, including psychological and spiritual, which can set the stage for Minding Action, as opposed to constantly being the manic quarterback hero, or having to withdraw to a monastery where the high walls can keep all Action at bay.
The secret lies in the balanced, centered, middle.
What does it know?
That all the action is still out there, even when we are centered. But, how to handle it?
Use the mind. Use your faculties, not just your emotions and your senses. Use your intellectual faculties. Find tools that support your faculties.
The MasterList is a tool for Minding Action. The MasterList is a tool to Mind what you can't do in the moment, while you center on what you can or must do with focused, centered purpose.
Taking care of what you can't do now is an important part of the process of doing what you must do now. That's orchestration of action. That's the secret of The MasterList system.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
THE MASTERLIST WORKS WELL WITH FIREFOX
One of our older computers still has Windows 98 as an operating system and, accordingly, an older version of Internet Explorer. Lately, many newer and updated websites are too complex for this older version of Internet Explorer to handle. So, we switched this computer to Firefox.
Voila! Much faster screen pull-up of internet links. The best news is that all URL links in The MasterList database work in Firefox as if they had been created in Firefox in the first place!
Because we use The MasterList to store all our links, we had no decision to make about whether to transfer Favorites from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Our favorites are already stored and organized, contextually, as links in MasterList projects, with labels and associated notes, together with tasks and other related data. If The MasterList wasn't the greatest data organizer on the planet in the first place, we would use it to store and organize all our links anyway.
On the subject of changing technology, The MasterList runs faster and more reliably today than it ever did. 7 years ago when we were placing it on machines with 16 MB RAM and 32 MB RAM, the lack of operating system processing capacity would cause conflicting programs to crash and The MasterList as well as other databases would get occasional corruptions. With today's 256 MB, 512 MB, and 1 gig RAM machines, these kind of "processing" corruptions never occur. Processing to the database just flies.
Even so, we still recommend backup, including with our Replicator utility.
Happy New Year! Happy project pursuit. Happy data and link organization with The MasterList.
One of our older computers still has Windows 98 as an operating system and, accordingly, an older version of Internet Explorer. Lately, many newer and updated websites are too complex for this older version of Internet Explorer to handle. So, we switched this computer to Firefox.
Voila! Much faster screen pull-up of internet links. The best news is that all URL links in The MasterList database work in Firefox as if they had been created in Firefox in the first place!
Because we use The MasterList to store all our links, we had no decision to make about whether to transfer Favorites from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Our favorites are already stored and organized, contextually, as links in MasterList projects, with labels and associated notes, together with tasks and other related data. If The MasterList wasn't the greatest data organizer on the planet in the first place, we would use it to store and organize all our links anyway.
On the subject of changing technology, The MasterList runs faster and more reliably today than it ever did. 7 years ago when we were placing it on machines with 16 MB RAM and 32 MB RAM, the lack of operating system processing capacity would cause conflicting programs to crash and The MasterList as well as other databases would get occasional corruptions. With today's 256 MB, 512 MB, and 1 gig RAM machines, these kind of "processing" corruptions never occur. Processing to the database just flies.
Even so, we still recommend backup, including with our Replicator utility.
Happy New Year! Happy project pursuit. Happy data and link organization with The MasterList.
