Problem: My wife's iPod mini is filled with a lot of music that she doesn't listen to (mostly mine). The problem is she doesn't like using iTunes (or ephPod) and relies on me to get music onto her iPod. Both of us generally use our mp3 players in shuffle-all mode but find ourselves hitting "next" frequently (I guess this also says something about our music collection?). It's more of a problem for full albums we buy and rip rather than singles downloaded from iTMS.

Desired Solution: What we really want is an easy way to trash a song on the iPod... or at least mark it so it won't be played again and automatically removed during the next sync. You would probably need to hold the button down for three or four seconds so you don't accidentally delete tracks.

Current Workaround: We can rate the songs we don't like with one star and then remove them during the next sync. This is too many clicks for my wife and more work for me.

Ideas?

By the way, the new SanDisk Sansa e260 looks pretty slick.

So I just got David Allen's latest newsletter a few minutes ago and it mentioned a simple "Two Minute Timer" program they are offering for $10. For those of you not familiar with the two minute rule:

“If the Next Action can be done in 2 minutes or less, do it when you first pick the item up. Even if that item is not a “high priority”, because it takes longer to store and track any item than to deal with it the first time its in your head.” (p. 131, “Getting Things Done”)

Now I can see how this little program could be useful to show how much you can really get done in two minutes, but charging $10 for a program that a high school student can write in fifteen minutes seems kind of silly to me.

So donate $10 to your favorite charity and download this free program instead (.NET Framework 2.0 is required... I didn't have any other development environment installed on my laptop, but I'm sure someone else can spend two minutes and write one that doesn't require .NET).

TwoMinutes.zip (16.49 KB)