Though I’m not a writer, I recognize a lot of the same concerns from my work as a software developer. You have a variety of bosses expecting different deliverables at various deadlines. They all get angry if you run late, and even angrier if you don’t tell them you’re running late until after the deadline. It’s probably even harder for writers; I often feel like I need some hard-to-invoke inspiration to finish a software project, but the role of inspiration in writing a story has got to be much greater.

Still, it’s good to know that Voo2do can help writers with their work just as it helps me with mine.

So try Alt+Shift+S to save tasks and Alt+Shift+K to add a new task. This is a confusing change and many web users will be affected by it.

I would like to point out a few tips that might be useful to you and other users:

To backup all tasks automatically with wget (available on linux, but also on windows either in cygwin or stand-alone – search wget windows on google) [ed: try here]:

wget.exe -O alltasks.xml http://voo2do.com/api/getAllTasks?userId=4..6&loginHash=e..1

Obviously userid and loginHash (obtained with getLoginHash) must be changed. [ed: see Voo2do API documentation]

The same could be achieved with the more flexible CURL tool, which even allows for doing POSTs and file uploads from the command line.

The same tool can be used to add tasks from a batch file or from the tools/external tools of Visual Studio 6

wget.exe” -O result.htm http://voo2do.com/api/saveTask?userId=4..6&loginHash=e..1&projName=PROJECT1&estOrig=1.5&elapsed=.5&taskdesc=%1

In VS:
Tools/customize/tools
add a new tool
Command line: wget.exe with full path
Arguments: -O $(WkspName).htm http://voo2do.com/api/saveTask?userId=4..6&loginHash=e..1&projName=$(WkspName)&estOrig=1&taskdesc=$(CurText)
Use output window: true

So you will add the current txt selection to a V2D project named after your workspace…

You can also add a kb shortcut.

Thanks, Carlo!

The full article is at inforedesign and in Russian, but Denis kindly emailed me an English translation:

Title: del.icio.us + rssfwd + voo2do

Wanted:
Account on del.icio.us
Account on voo2do

What for:
In order not to loose interesting links and to make me write posts (translations).

Details:

Recently in voo2do service one new possibility appeared to create tasks via e-mail. Each account has it’s secret address, the letters sent to this address formed in a special but not difficult way, are automatically transferred into tasks. At the moment there are some problems with Cyrillic font, but the developer of the service in aware of it and is going to solve them.

All links to the articles I would like to translate or to use on my blog I used to put to the bookmarks in the browser to the folder 2_blog. Now it is possible to use another scheme, which requires more steps, but still is more profitable. Now I have access to my links anywhere where Internet is, and what is more important, it is not just a link any more, it is the tasks, which are to be done.

How does it work? You bookmark the page into del.icio.us , via marking this entry by special tag like post_2_blog. This tag has its own rss-feed. Copy this link…

… to the servise RSSFwd. Input address into the field of rss-fees, and on the next page — secret address of the account voo2do, adding to the address (following the instruction) something like +blogpost (equal to the name of the project in the voo2do).

And that’s all. And finally, bookmarking the page to del.icio.us with special tag, in some time (2-8 hours) you get the task to write or to translate the article in your task list.

And when you have a task, you have a stimulus to write or translate the article.

Author: Denis Perekhrest (http://inforedesign.com)

Neat hack!