Re: [MacPerl] useful (albeit silly) Mac OS hint

[Don Arbow <donarb@nwlink.com>]

On 3/24/00 at 2:31 PM, rdm@cfcl.com (Rich Morin) wrote:

> I've been doing some editing of looong documents recently, bouncing back
> and forth between sections.  I was wasting a noticeable amount of time
> in finding my place until I thought of creating a placeholder icon.
> 
> Specifically, I went to the Finder and hit Cmd-M, creating a folder.  I
> then changed the name to "<<<<<<" and Cmd-dragged it to sit next to the
> "thumb" on the application's slider bar.  Every so often, as I edit the
> file, I do a "Save", then move the icon down a bit.  It's really silly,
> but it actually turns out to be very useful.
> 
> 

I do that, but instead I put a left arrow on a post-it note and stick it to
my screen.  This is much faster and works better that having to move the
"pointer" icon on the desktop, especially when other apps obscure the
desktop..

This is a good use for the builtin stickies.

Don



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