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Tony found me a blogging client with a spell checker and lots of other nifty features. So, hopefully this will greatly reduce the number of spelling gaffes I will make in this blog (If I remember to use it!).

It’s a good thing I wasn’t an English major or a professional writer/editor before the days of spell check. I probably wouldn’t have gotten very far. Or maybe I just would have been forced to improve much more quickly. Hmmm…Even though some people knock spell checkers because they don’t catch common word errors (like interchanging there and their), spell checkers are perfect for people like me who have just had difficulty remembering certain rules, like which words contain double letters.

While I have many praises for spell checking, I have a lot of complaints about the way most programs like Outlook deal with managing “to do lists” and the like. Tony and I have been talking lately about designing the ultimate time/task management program that really works for people with tasks like mine. I’ve noticed that almost everything I do is recurring in one fashion or another. However nearly every “to do” program I’ve seen is really flaky about how it shows the future to-do items — usually the future ones don’t show up until the previous one is checked. And it’s difficult dealing with the nested to-dos of projects, and the ambiguity of tasks that should get done at some point, but are of a lower priority and don’t necessarily have a specific due date.There’s also issues with how tasks show up that are “in progress” — meaning, I should be working on them right now, but they aren’t actually due for a few days or weeks.

So, if anyone has any brilliant suggestions of programs that deal with these issues in a better way, let me know…so we don’t reinvent the wheel.