Progress is Good

Thanks for all the emails asking when the next version of TaskTHIS will be out! I really do appreciate them, it spurs me on to action knowing that you guys find the app useful. I'm sorry I haven't answered them all, it's been kinda crazy lately. I've been trying to sell my house, find another place to live -- Oh, and make a little money so I can eat. ^_^

All that said, there's a new version of TaskTHIS on the horizon! It's going to have a whole new UI, and quite a few tweaks and new features. Plus, I'm cleaning up the view code. It'll be a lot less 'spaghetti' than before. Check back a little later -- I'll post an image of the new UI.

I don't really want to tie myself down with a specific release date... However, if everything progresses as it has been, then it should be ready by August 1 (yes, 2005).

Got It, Read It

And it was good!

Signs That You Work(ed) in a Sweat Shop

• When you're finally ready to go home, you forget where it is
• You know all of your work-mates ringtones for everyone they know -- or used to know
• You can never remember what day it is
• The only sleep you get is in the shower... until the hot water runs out

What are your additions to the list?

improveTHIS!

I'm happy to report that taskthis! has been well received. It has over 1200 registered users! I've gotten a lot of positive response; bugs, suggestions, and feature requests. I appreciate it all.

Originally it was just a tech demo for illustrating how easy it is to use Ajax in Rails... But from the response, and my own usage, I think I'm going to commit a little time and flesh it out.

Oddly enough, the taskthis.com domain was available. So, of course, I snatched it up! That means in the near future it'll have a new home (a textdrive home, at that).

So what does it need to make it 'full-fledged'? ... That wasn't rhetorical, it was a request for feedback! Here's the list, at the moment:

1. Various little cleanups in the UI
2. Fix UTF-8 support
3. Public tasklists (everyone can see)
4. Shared tasklists (multiple users can add/complete taskitems)
5. Pervasive RSS
6. 'Remember Password'
7. Taskitem reordering
8. Tasklist reordering
9. Tasklist merging
10. Taskitem due date (I'm rather leery of this one)
11. Help (seems obvious enough, eh?)

Let me know what features you'd like added to the list.

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