New home for Undone
March 27th, 2008Undone has been mostly rewritten and has a new home at undone.leftcolumn.net. Old links should all redirect transparently, but let us know if anything’s not working.
The system has some cool new features including:
- Tags for actions, which is a much more flexible way of describing actions than the old system of contexts. SO the GTD aspect has been toned down, apologies to anyone who misses it. You can still use tags to assign contexts, so don’t panic.
- A Dropbox feature that lets you assign named people the right to add actions for your profile. This means you can build virtual teams, help desks, etc. We envisage this being useful for anyone needing lightweight workflow features on the web, mainly for people who work together but aren’t in the same building. You can also use it for ad hoc information sharing - for example a shopping list shared by a couple.
- We had to implement email address verification to support the team features, so sign-up now takes 33 seconds instead of 27 seconds. Hope you can cope with that!
- Many small enhancements, and there are more on the way. See our features wanted list, and use the contact form or leave a comment to suggest features etc
- Go create an account now and see what all the fuss is about!
March 27th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Stacey Derbinshire
April 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I came via Jane’s e-Learning pick site… I like the power and flexibility of the project/tag approach - infinite variety there. However, for me and my projects, I’m more concerned about tying tasks and projects to a date on the calendar than to the number of hours or minutes a task will take. I’m not billing by the hour, and I don’t account for or budget my time that way. I suppose I could use dates as tags, but that would be ugly. I want a field for Due on X date. That could drive features like show me what I have coming up this week, etc. I don’t know if I would want this integrated with my Outlook or Google calendar or not… Cool product!
April 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Hi bmljenny,
Thanks for the feedback, very useful to hear how people work and what works for them! What I’ll probably do is put these features in and add an item to the settings page that lets you switch on / off the due date functionality, that way if people don’t want them it keeps the interface nice and simple.
Once due dates are added, there are lots of ways undone could present them to you - emailing you a daily list, for example. Also there’d be a set of pages - ‘Today’, ‘This Week’, ‘This Month’, and a calendar navigation gadget? Exportable calendar items would be available, probably for ical, google calendar and outlook.
Cheers!
Joe