Manage, archive, and share your RSS feed subscriptions with Backpack

Here’s a cool little tip on how to use Backpack to manage, archive, and share your RSS feed subscriptions.

April 27, 2006 in Power users

Using OS X's Automator to backup files to Backpack

The folks at Nonstopmac.com put together a tutorial on how to backup files on your Mac to your Backpack account using Apple’s Automator tool included with OS X 10.4. Pretty cool stuff. Thanks for writing this up guys!

March 21, 2006 in Power users

For Mac: Quicksilver and Backpack

If you’re on a Mac and use Quicksilver, check out this customer contributed video demo of Quicksilver working with Backpack. The Backpack pages are in French, but you’ll still understand the workflow. Impressive.

June 1, 2005 in Power users

REMINDERS: +## to set in minutes or hours

Want to set a reminder in the next 15 minutes? Next 45 minutes? In 2 hours and 30 minutes? You can enter a specific time (7:30pm, for example), or you can pick from the pulldowns, but there’s an easier way. Try this:

+15 Pick up lunch → will set a reminder in 15 minutes.

+45 FedEx the proposal → will set a reminder in 45 minutes.

+2:30 Return the movie → will set a reminder in 2.5 hours.

May 1, 2005 in Power users, Tips & Tricks

PAGES: Adding content to a page via email

Backpack makes it easy to add content to any Backpack page via email (watch as video to see it in action).

Every Backpack page has a unique email address. You can find the email address at the bottom of a page. The email address is usually a random word followed by a number followed by another word (ex: john87mary@backpackit.com).

Adding a note to a page via email

If you want to send a note to a page, compose an email to that page’s email address and begin the subject of the email with “note:”. Next, finish the subject with the title of the note and then fill the email body with the body of the note. The note will then be added to the “Notes” section on the Backpack page you emailed. Here’s an example:

Adding a to-do to a page via email

If you want to add a to-do to a page, compose an email to that page’s email address and begin the subject of the email with “todo:”.

At this point you have two options: 1: If you only want to add one to-do you can just add it after the “todo:” subject or 2. If you want to add multiple to-dos at once, don’t add anything after the subject but instead add multiple to-dos (each on its own line and each starting with an asterisk and then a space like “* The item name”) in the body of the email. The to-dos will then be added to the “List” section on the Backpack page you emailed. Here’s an example of both methods:

Adding an image to a page via email

Emailing an image to a Backpack page couldn’t be easier. Just create a new email, attach as many images in GIF, JPG, or PNG format as you’d like, and address the email to the page you want to add the images to. The subject of the email and any text in the email will be stripped out. The images will then be added to the “Images” section on the Backpack page you emailed. Here’s an example of an email:

Adding a file to a page via email

Emailing an file to a Backpack page is simple. Just create a new email, attach as many files as you’d like, and address the email to the page you want to add the files to. The subject of the email and any text in the email will be stripped out. The files will then be added to the “Files” section on the Backpack page you emailed. Here’s an example of an email:

April 24, 2005 in Power users, Tips & Tricks

REMINDERS: Shortcut for adding a reminder today

Did you know you can insert a time before a reminder to set that reminder for a specific time today?

For example:

6:45pm Pick up dry cleaning → will set a reminder for 6:45pm today.
9am FedEx the proposal → will set a reminder for 9am today.
19:30 Return the movie → will set a reminder for 19:30 (7:30pm) today.

You can use either 12-hour or 24-hour format. If you use 12-hour, there can't be a space between the time and the am/pm ("9:30am" will work but "9:30 am" will not).

April 22, 2005 in Power users, Tips & Tricks