ONE THOUSAND TWENTY SEVEN users have confirmed their email addresses and registered on voo2do.com. That’s an amazing rate of growth, far higher than I would have imagined, and I’m flattered my little program has been getting all that attention.

Here’s the breakdown by day:

8/15: 15 registered users, mostly people who I told about the otherwise-unannounced alpha version.

8/16: I annouce voo2do late at night, publishing my blog entry at 11:36pm. 28 new users. (I also made entries on furl and del.icio.us).

8/17: voo2do climbs the ranks at del.icio.us, working its way to the low singly digits by evening. 190 new users.

8/18: voo2do hits the top of del.icio.us/popular, and sits there until the evening, when it starts slowly gliding back down. 541 new users.

8/19: voo2do is still on the popular page. This morning it was second and now it’s sixth. So far, 253 new users.

I expect it to cool down quite a bit over the weekend but perhaps next week someone will write about it and send another tide of new users our way.

Thanks to everyone trying voo2do, especially those sending me helpful bug reports, insightful suggestions, and kind compliments!

Voo2do has some bugs that are especially frustrating to our international users. Fixing these is a high priority right now; I hope to have fixes applied in the next day or two.

• Non-English characters: if you use accented characters in a task description or project name, the save will fail and your changes will be lost. Until this is fixed, please use only standard English characters.
• Time zones: voo2do currently uses server time for all calculations. My server’s timezone is EST (UTC-5:00), so the further you are from America’s East coast, the more incorrect your deadline calculations will be. I plan to add a timezone setting to fix this.

Thanks to all the folks who’ve pointed out this problem, and thank you all for your patience as I fix this up. I never thought I’d have so many international users so quickly!

I’m starting this blog to communicate with users of the web-based to-do tracking tool I wrote, voo2do. The user community is growing fast, and it’s good to have a way to announce problems and tips, as well as discuss feature suggestions and help requests.

Basically, I hope to move a lot of email discussion onto this blog so everyone can read it. Please contribute your comments here to help us build and maintain a useful web service anyone can enjoy.