Some new features and bugfixes:
- You can now “unfinish” tasks from the complete list, in case you mistakenly mark them as finished.
- Bookmarklet submits behind the scenes now, so that it doesn’t take you off the page you’re reading.
- Bookmarklet and email functionality both now fill in the URL field. In the bookmarklet’s case, you can also specify tags.
- Fixed a bug in email that was introduced with the new fields for URLs and tags.
Added a bunch of features today:
- Tags! You can now tag tasks when you add them, then go to http://www.whatshallidonow.net/<tag name> to have your current task selected only from tasks with that tag. I use this in a bunch of ways, like picking off only tasks from a certain project or in a certain programming language. Other ways might be to tag items with the time or place they need to be done, or to avoid doing more stressful tasks when you just want to relax.
- Bulk uploads. You can now upload a file with a bunch of tasks in it, and all those tasks will be added at once.
- Links. You can submit a URL along with a task to have it hyperlinked. I did this mostly for the bookmarklet (which doesn’t use it yet, ironically; working on that…), but it could be helpful in other ways, eg. linking the bugtracker page on a bug report to the task for it.
Also did some usability cleanups, and I’m still working on that aspect. Remember, there’s a feedback forum if you have other suggestions.
Welcome to the obligatory Web 2.0 blog of WhatShallIDoNow.net! :-)
A bit of backstory - I created this as a weekend-long side project to help me manage all the job leads I really should be following up on, the interview coding problems I’ve forgotten to do, and the open-source projects that are sitting unreleased on my hard disk. They were getting rather overwhelming, so I wanted something that would just tell me what to work on and let me forget everything else.
Once I wrote it, I figured I might as well release, so I put it up for critique on news.yc. And then promptly found out that two other teams had done exactly the same thing the week before:
Anyway, I’m having fun adding new features to WhatShallIDoNow.net and I use it to manage my own to-do list, so there’s no reason to quit just yet. :-) I’ll be improving it in response to feedback and as new needs come up. If you’ve got suggestions, head on over to the feedback forum and I’ll implement them.
