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Tasks need to have dates I think for this thing to be both a brain organizer and a productivity tool, which I think is ultimately what it is going to have to be
by eof 16y ago
Tasks need to have dates I think for this thing to be both a brain organizer and a productivity tool, which I think is ultimately what it is going to have to be to be successful (and it is names workflowy).
I have used mindmaps before, which is basically the same idea with a different interface.
I'd like each node to have a "due by" or "do on" date, and maybe a simple color coding.. just a way to arbitrary label things into one of a few sets for later polling.
This is young so no one has built up huge maps of their brains and their lives, or imagine an organization using this.. it could get huge and cumbersome. To solve this you'd need to be able to pull all the 'purple' items from deep in the tree into it's own list, or get a list of everything that I said needed to be done today, or by friday.
In any case, I think this is a great tool, and I have been looking for a seamless way of keeping track of things, and this just might fit the bill. I will be giving it a try.
Curious how this is going to be monetized as well, I hope I don't get addicted and end up with another cellphone bill.
- jessep 16y agoYeah, lots of this is right on. Dates: need to do it. Taggin/Labeling and filtering is super key and one of the next big things we're going to work on. Regarding monetization, we're thinking that we're going to have a premium option above a certain number of lists/items. We're, of course, going to grandfather in early users.
- chrisgoodrich 16y agoI hope that you don't sacrifice the simplicity here. Instead of actual fields or clickable options for setting tags and due dates, let me type them in and then display them as needed. something like: look into alternatives for GTD due 12/1/2010 [work, gtd]
- eof 16y agoTaking syntax like that is definitely cool. I was thinking though of just being able to hover a node and get teensy widgets
- chrisgoodrich 16y agoMaybe both? I like the idea of being able to quickly type out what I need.
- jessep 16y agoYeah, everything's going to be text editable. The twitter #hashtag model is what we'll probably follow. So if you type, say, "!" it might pull up a date picker and then when you choose the date it'll insert it in the text like !2010-10-24 (and record the metadata invisibly for sorting/filtering and whatnot).