Comments on: A Short Note about Short Notes (to Self) http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/blog/2009/04/12/a-short-note-about-short-notes-to-self/ MIT CSAIL Research Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:48:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Richard Karpinski http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/blog/2009/04/12/a-short-note-about-short-notes-to-self/comment-page-1/#comment-905 Richard Karpinski Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:22:55 +0000 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/blog/?p=294#comment-905 When I consider lists, I think of To Do lists, calendared lists, project lists, and checklists. None of the tools I've tried have been really satisfactory for any of these tasks. I have some hope for List-It because there are resources intending to improve it, it's open source, and people are studying how it's used. This would get more interesting for To Do purposes if it had a convenient way to check off items without making them disappear entirely. It would get more interesting for calendar items if there were a way to indicate a time for an item and perhaps auto-install it into a calendar system such as Google Calendar. It would be more interesting for project use if items could be tagged with a project name and perhaps interoperated with some Getting Things Done applications. It would be more interesting for Checklist use if one could have, and share, checklists that were easy to copy into an active list and conveniently check off as the items got done. It would be incredibly more interesting if it were carefully arranged to accommodate human needs, as described in "The Humane Interface". See the author's short summary of rules and principles from the book on my website shown above. It would be easier to understand if several, or many, examples of lists were available early on in the course of checking to see if this software is worth studying or adopting. Each example might include various notes explaining the point of that list. I wish there were a Start Here video beyond the 23 second one I just saw via this site. And thanks for trying to help us all. Dick When I consider lists, I think of To Do lists, calendared lists, project lists, and checklists. None of the tools I’ve tried have been really satisfactory for any of these tasks. I have some hope for List-It because there are resources intending to improve it, it’s open source, and people are studying how it’s used.

This would get more interesting for To Do purposes if it had a convenient way to check off items without making them disappear entirely.

It would get more interesting for calendar items if there were a way to indicate a time for an item and perhaps auto-install it into a calendar system such as Google Calendar.

It would be more interesting for project use if items could be tagged with a project name and perhaps interoperated with some Getting Things Done applications.

It would be more interesting for Checklist use if one could have, and share, checklists that were easy to copy into an active list and conveniently check off as the items got done.

It would be incredibly more interesting if it were carefully arranged to accommodate human needs, as described in “The Humane Interface”. See the author’s short summary of rules and principles from the book on my website shown above.

It would be easier to understand if several, or many, examples of lists were available early on in the course of checking to see if this software is worth studying or adopting. Each example might include various notes explaining the point of that list.

I wish there were a Start Here video beyond the 23 second one I just saw via this site.

And thanks for trying to help us all.

Dick

]]> By: Abitur nachholen http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/blog/2009/04/12/a-short-note-about-short-notes-to-self/comment-page-1/#comment-595 Abitur nachholen Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:28:50 +0000 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/blog/?p=294#comment-595 I would like this tool during my distance learning course. At this time I use oldscool postips :-) I would like this tool during my distance learning course. At this time I use oldscool postips :-)

]]> By: Sharon Greenfield http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/blog/2009/04/12/a-short-note-about-short-notes-to-self/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Sharon Greenfield Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:05:19 +0000 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/blog/?p=294#comment-570 This sounds super, super cool! Nice work you guys. I'd love to see this tool be used in studying linguistics, and if//what/how parts of language are changing due to our new communication mediums, such as Evernote, Twitter, etc. Although, yeah, it does remind me of Evernote which I have installed on my 3 Macs, my 1 PC, and my iPhone. :) This sounds super, super cool! Nice work you guys.
I’d love to see this tool be used in studying linguistics, and if//what/how parts of language are changing due to our new communication mediums, such as Evernote, Twitter, etc.
Although, yeah, it does remind me of Evernote which I have installed on my 3 Macs, my 1 PC, and my iPhone. :)

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