Voo2do in TechCrunch
Voo2do was included today in a comparison of online to-do list apps at TechCrunch. TechCrunch is a popular blog about the latest cool technology stuff, and I’m happy Voo2do made it on there. A big thanks to our many devoted users!
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June 8th, 2006 at 5:40 am
I found you just after ‘Vibe, in MoMB (Museum of Modern Beta, yes?) … all that while working through articles on http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com (HTML allowed?)
Good on ya, Shimon. A lot of what brought me here today had to do with my googling an old web acquainance, Pieter Hintjens (an FSM guru). http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/european_project_01 … it’s all about uhhhhhhh … loving God and doing as we will?
*shrug*
enough for this day
thanks for this
AJAX rules!
(and OpenLaszlo lifts the heavy weight *grin*)
July 26th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
Started using Voo2Do about an hour ago after reading the TechCrunch article earlier this week. I’m learning fast but my first wish is/was that more could be learned by hovering the cursor over column/row headings and icons. For instance, the column heading “pri” …. I was looking at it thinking, private? …. primary? Hm. I left it blank for the first few task entries, then poked around looking for help and finally saw a screenshot and, duh, it’s “priority”. Pretty obvious, but my fuzzy brain didn’t think of it right away.
Right now, I’m trying to figure out what the little gray double right arrow icon thingy is at the left of the task rows. I know I saw it somewhere when I was reading about the voo2do features and I’ll figure it out in a little bit, but it would make some peoples’ learning curve faster if one could just hover over what they were looking at and quickly learn what it was.
My wife and I have typically messy lives. She owns a growing business which I am involved in helping with and she is on the road a lot. I work at a job with multiple projects always swirling around at once. We are both divorced, both have kids we share with ex-spouses. We’re trying to remodel the house, fix the car, laundry, dishes, lawn, pets, Etc, Etc.
Communicating and getting things done is challenging and fulfilling dreams seems difficult, so we’re searching for ways to make things easier and voo2do seems promising. Especially for capturing all the to do items and project tasks in one common area. I’m a list person, she’s a post-it person. We’re famous for having forests of post-its and lots of lists around the house and in the car …. many of them duplicates.
Often our priorities are not the same and it leads to conflict at times as we stumble over each other about what, who should be doing next. (For some reason, her items always end up on top. Still haven’t figured that one out yet). This conflict usually happens because we have no mechanism to establish common priorities. We’ve tried pencil and paper, spreadsheets, post it systems, but it seems we are usually so far flung and moving so fast while things are constantly changing, that trying to bring it all together in some common way never happens ….. so here I am.
My dream is to be able to use this both for work, business and home with different contexts for each. I would like for my wife and I to have separate lists for the things we do apart, but also common lists that we can share and maintain together. For instance, if I’m planning on doing something, but something happens that makes something she needs done a higher priority, she can go in and update the priority and I can see it as I chip away at the tasks.
The other thing I’m hoping for in the future is to see multiple ways to maintain the lists …. phone, PDA, voice recognition-via-email, carrier pigeons etc. Right now, we constantly scribble things everywhere in planners, on lists and on post-its …. at home, in the car, at clients and at work. We need to be able to continuously capture our fleeting thoughts somewhere (while on the headset, going down the highway, with a client on the other line, the kids fighting in the back seat and the dog trying to drive) so we can later easily put our heads together once or twice a week to look at all that we are trying to do and tweak the priorities and purge the duplicates and keep moving forward. Any tools that help with all this would be great.
Another feature I would like to see … I think …. is an ABC type prioritization, in addition to the 1-2-3 scheme. I’ve used this in the past and it helps a lot, especially when the lists get big and you have multiple items of the same priority. I believe the 1-2-3 format follows something like:
1 = today (ASAP, urgent)
2 = this week (very soon)
3 = this month (pretty soon, no rush)
….. whereas, the addition of the A-B-C value adds:
A = vital
B = important, but not a killer
C = would be nice to do
This would make it easy to determine that an 1A item is the super highest priority, while making it easier to figure out which of the 2′s really needed to be worked on first. The value of this becomes especially apparent when you suddenly find yourself with less time available than you thought you had, and you are comforted by the fact that you already managed to take care of the vital stuff, because that was what was presented to you first on your list.
I might be all wet on this, because I haven’t experimented with the different ways to sort using combinations of date and priority, but thought I’d toss that out as food for thought.
Anyway, I’m suppose’tah be working on entering in my new projects and tasks …. so I’ll end with a word of thanks for this tool (and an apology for getting carried away with the wordiness). Nowadays, we need all the help we can get.
August 15th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Speaking of priorities, while A-B-C priorities might be useful, please don’t restrict it to three steps. AFAIK now you can also use more than just 1-2-3 as numbers (at least, I use 1 to 5, which is much better than the Outlook-style three steps). I actually use 1-4 for the four quadrants of importance/urgency (à la Stephen Covey), with 5 being “Someday/Maybe”.
Another thing I miss is an autosave feature, because I keep forgetting to hit the “Save” button.
BTW: The images for the security code should be such that numbers and letters are identifyable. I got one that began with something that could have been an “Oh”, a “Dee” or a zero. Of course, I got it wrong and lost the message I had typed. This one isn’t much better, but now I saved the message before hitting “Submit”…
August 24th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Hey Voo2do was also mentioned in this recent InformationWeek article on Ajax-based apps.
Look on page 4 (Information Managers) for the details. Not the greatest amount of praise, but it’s still great product placement. Good for you Shimon!
August 28th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
shane! shane, come back!
We need sporadic visual sparks to guide us down the path to voo2do magic.
sj
September 30th, 2006 at 10:46 am
Is the project stopped? is that all? we should gonna go out?
The voo2do is working and is working just fine, but you keeping silence are making us worry. will it work tomorrow?
And after all, how are you self? is something happened?