point update: customizable shortcuts, toodledo, and speed
Updates are just flooding out. Apologies. Since the most recent versions have a built-in update mechanism, via sparkle, you can just click “Check for Updates…” and not worry about downloading.
Two big additions today Toodledo integration (soon to be followed by more web-based task managers like Remember the Milk), and customizable shortcuts.
To use Threshold to quickly enter To Dos to your Toodledo account, type “to do” in the context field, and “!reset” in the command field. You’ll be asked to enter the calendar you want Threshold to integrate with, type “Toodledo” instead.
After that, the first time you enter a to do for Toodledo, you’ll be asked to enter some account information, your password and your account’s Unique ID, which is not a login name, but an API hash. You can find it, after logging into your Toodledo account, here.
Once you enter all that. Make a new to do in Toodledo works the exact same as it did with iCal: “Remember the butter @Tomorrow !4” for dates you can use “@” and mm/dd/yy, mm/dd, dd, “tomorrow”, Day of the week, or “Next” day of the week. Prioritize your to do’s with “!” and 1 thru 4.
Threshold had path shortcuts for navigating the Finder built into it since day one. You could type “d/” and get “/Users/Home/Desktop/” or “do/” and get “/Users/Home/Documents/” and more.
Those are all still there as defaults, but you can now add, remove, and edit them. Go to “/Users/Home/Library/Application Support/Threshold/” and open “Shortcuts.plist”
Having a plist editor helps, but even opening Shortcuts.plist with TextEdit you should be able to manually edit the shortcuts very easily.
Each shortcut consists of a key value, the shortcut itself, and a string value, the path you want the shortcut to represent. Add, change, experiment. If you delete the Shortcuts.plist, Threshold will replace it with a default version the next time it launches.
< key >do< /key >
< string >~/Documents< /string >
Above you can see the entry for the shortcut “do” to expand to “~/Documents” (where “~” means your home folder). To make your own, just duplicate an existing entry or make your own. Right now the shortcuts are limited to 4 characters.
