Coding

Asana is a great task manager for individuals and teams. I’ve used it on the job, to help me track new issues. The main feature I miss is the ability to save all your tasks to a local file. Asana’s built-in export truncates the output at 500 records. This limits your ability to work with the data in other applications, or switch to another service. Fortunately, you can export all your entries using the Asana API and a bit of Python.

Git has become the de facto standard for web development source control. However, there are times when you don’t need all its features and complexity. If you’re developing alone on a single machine, and want a repository mainly for backup and comparison, consider a simpler application like Fossil. It’s an easy installation: you drop a single executable file anywhere in your system path. There are downloadable ready-to-run binaries available for Linux, Mac, Windows, and BSD, or you can compile it yourself.