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Undone 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!

Undone now has a nicer (not exactly nice, but nicer than it was!) print css, which you’ll appreciate if you like to print out your actions and work off hard copy. I removed much extraneous stuff and improved the layout for readibility and paper economy.

There’s also a new RSS feed option, which is a Project Summary for any projects not marked as private. Check it out! Should be handy for including in blogs, CMSes etc in a sidebar RSS widget.

Also you can mark individual projects as private and they will now be hidden, even if the rest of your profile is public.

Projects can also have descriptions now. Yes, it seems so obvious.

There’s a new page called ’share’ that shows you what you’ve chosen to make public and has handy links so you can share them.
That’s about it. Create an account and go for it!

Undone just got some new features/improvements:

-Show Date that Actions were added, and allow editing of these dates. If you use the hours tracking as well, you’ve got the basics of a time-keeping system for contractors and small businesses. This is going to work with the Reports system, which will let you download CSVs, so you can take time records and load them into your own billing system.

-After you add an Action, the next time you click ‘Add Action’ the Context and Project default to the last ones used. Obvious but still useful.

- Sorting of Actions in the main Actions page is now Alphabetical within Contexts and Projects, with any ‘Done’ actions sinking to the bottom of the list. Attentive readers will realise that this means you can impose a system of Priorities on your Actions simply by prefixing them with a number. See below for more on Priorities.

-Some visual improvements, and expect further improvements in that area.

There are more changes on the way, including Reports, as noted above. Another big one is Priorities for Actions. See the Leftcolumn.net Undone profile and it’s Feed version for some more features we’ve got planned, and use the contact form if you have any suggestions or feedback.

I’ve just made a few improvements to Undone, including:

-Security enhancements. Thanks to all the people who tried to break it! Your efforts have been educational.

-Atom feeds are now better, the unique IDs point to valid ‘Single Action’ pages so they should be clickable in most readers.

-Closed/Done actions now appear at the bottom of lists, which just makes sense.

There’s a bunch more stuff coming!

Undone now has syndication capabilities - essentially you get a list of actions, sorted by the most recently modified. This is still pretty primitive, but allows you to share your changing to-do items. See an example user’s profile and Atom feed. At this stage the feeds are available to the world if you make your profile available - this will probably change to a more granular system where you can make individual contexts, projects and actions public, which would be applied to your RSS feeds too.

The RSS feeds are pretty simple right now, but we’ll shortly be adding summaries of the contexts and projects etc that they are associated with, as well as detals of whether they have been marked complete, any hours logged, etc. Enjoy!

Well, we’ve been quietly working on this for a while and it’s finally ready for an alpha launch. Undone is a GTD-based (yet still somehow flexible) productivity/to-do-list/time-tracking tool. At this stage it is still very basic, but is ready to use by  foolhardy, intrepid folk. We have big plans for Undone, including better time-tracking, Team project tools, reporting, an API, etc.

Registration is free and fast. Feedback welcomed via the contact form.

Check it out at http://www.leftcolumn.net/undone/