Brain Murmurs

We have been spending some time working on general performance improvements in Mentat. You should be able to see the fruits of our labors immediately.
Both the Agenda page and the Projects page have received some love. The loading times have been drastically improved, and we should no longer be getting in our own […]

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Development on iMentat is going *fast*. It is very likely we’ll be ready for beta testers by the end of next week, if there’s actually a way for us to distribute the builds to people.

*Screenshots have been removed on the advice of a colleague until we get some clarification from Apple on whether or […]

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The Mentat BlackBerry OTA download links are working again. Turned out that RIM had it set up to secretly split the extremely important .cod file into pieces once it reaches a certain size and then disguise it after building. After discovering this hidden gem of arcane knowledge, we devised a solution to get things working […]

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I’ve had about half a day to look at the iPhone SDK and start migrating our iMentat code over to it from the toolchain, and I already have a few observations to make about it.

This. Is. AWESOME.

Working with an actual SDK, and a debugger, with actual documentation, just about made me swoon.

It’s the toolchain - […]

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Mentat BlackBerry OTA download links stopped working yesterday and are we are diagnosing it now.
In the meantime, here are desktop download links as an option for anyone who wants to download the latest build now:
*OS 4.2 Desktop Download Link
http://brainmurmurs/products/mentat/v42desktop.zip
*OS 4.1 Desktop Download Link
http://brainmurmurs.com/products/mentat/v41desktop.zip
Just download from that link to your computer then unzip, and point your […]

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We’re back with site improvements, product announcements, Mentat for OS X pre-registration, a new product, and more!

New Mentat BlackBerry features and pricing

After listening to user feedback, we have added several new features to our Mentat BlackBerry application:

Automatically convert emails or SMS messages on your BlackBerry to Mentat tasks.
Fully editable task description, summary, date, priority, assignee […]

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We’re making good progress on our native Mentat application for the iPhone, currently known simply as ‘iMentat.’ As this point, we have native build that that can log, display a navigable list of projects, and download and display task summaries.
More to come soon, we are making rapid progress.

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Download the latest build here to upgrade (now is a great time to get started too if you haven’t tried it yet!).
New features added:
* Edit task descriptions and summaries from the BlackBerry. Just scroll to the text you want to edit, hit delete (or alt-delete to clear the whole field) and start typing. You can […]

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In keeping with our GTD focus, the email to task feature was a big deal for our last Mentat BlackBerry (OS 4.2) release. Unfortunately, the trackwheel gave me nothing but grief when trying to set up the project selector part of that screen on the first go-round, so we compromised on ‘click for next options’ […]

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We’ve just launched the latest build of the Mentat BlackBerry Client with some nice new features:
* Email to Task option:
As promised, provided you are using the Mentat BlackBerry Client OS 4.2 download, you can now convert emails to tasks. To try it out, first download the latest build then:
1. Log in to Mentat
2. Press […]

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