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Salesforce and the Mac

Posted by clark in Address Book, Automation, SalesForce, iCal on 2010/01/21

I just started using Salesforce for CRM. I’ll probably have some posts on automating stuff with SalesForce over the next few weeks..

One thing I already found is an open source Mac sync that looks quite useful. It syncs contacts, events and tasks from Address Book and iCal to Salesforce. What I’m not sure about is custom fields. However there is source. (And this might be a great way to delve into Cocoa) There’s also Maildrop for quickly associating mail in Mail or Entourage with contacts in Salesforce.

Salesforce appears to have a nice API so I might be able to put together some useful Python scripts. There’s actually a Python discussion board at Salesforce. So I should be having a lot of fun the next month or so getting this setup for our company.

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Make an iCal ToDo

Posted by clark in Applescript, Python, iCal on 2009/07/13

As I had discussed I have a nice little iPhone application that syncs my ToDos from iCal to my phone. What I want to do is have an universal control key that allows me to quickly enter a To Do as soon as it comes into my head. (i.e. not have to open iCal) This is a very simple version of the program with a pretty rudimentary UI using display_dialog from Apple’s osax. As ever this is in Python using appscript.

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ToDos, iPhone, and iCal

Posted by clark in Mail, Productivity, iCal, iPhone on 2009/06/30

Appigo ToDoI’ve reached that stage of life where things are complex enough I need to start having better ToDo management. Thus far I’ve just been sending emails to myself. I have an IMAP directory just for things I’m supposed to do. Then emails that include requests or tasks I need to do (say from a client or business partner) I can move into that directory. When I need to add a task I just write myself an email. The subject is the task and then I put an explanation as the content.

I then had a second IMAP director called Finished and when I finish a task, order, or so forth I’d put it into that directory

This has been working fine for a while but I really wanted something a little more robust. Plus things just have been getting a bit more complex. I had really, really expected Apple to add syncing ToDos along with Notes with the 3.0 software. Surprisingly they didn’t. (Which is weird since I find Notes to be fairly useless – especially with that ugly Comic Sans font)

Enter Appigo ToDo.

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