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30 Boxes Adds Taggable To Do Lists for GTDMay 4th, 2006 by Narendra |
“What’s the next action?”
Or if you are in college, now you have a place to list your homework and errands.
We have just cranked out an addition to the growing 30Boxes Webtop: list making!
Here are some reasons why we like it:
- drag and drop sorting at all times
- one box entry with tagging: “call joe 344-2000 tag work tag @calls”
- one box remembers tags for easy entry
- multiple tags for items making this very GTD friendly
- list filtering in 1 or 2 dimensions via tags so you can display groups of items like:
all items tagged work
all items tagged @calls
all items tagged work and @calls
all items tagged @calls
all items tagged work and @calls
- metadata on items (tags, create date)
- print any view
- email any view to yourself
- double click to edit items
- right-click menus
- and a final GTD element — Add to Calendar, so you can move it easily off the next action list and onto the calendar. If you don’t use 30b as a calendar we have made the right-click menu allow you to add to Yahoo or to Google as well.
- shortcuts: add To Do items via the One Box by having the word “todo” in your text. Add them by email by sending something like “todo buy flowers for mom” to “add at 30boxes.com”.
- did I mention it was FAST ;-)
Remember, this is our first draft! Join in the forum to help us make it better over the next few weeks.
Tell a friend — 30boxes is much more than a calendar… it’s your life.
[Update: you can also add a to do item directly from the One Box with “todo buy tickets for the game” — just put the word “todo” at the beginning. Works from email as well…]
30 Boxes!
May 4th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Looks (and works) great so far! Love the quickness and the drag/drop.
This feature (among 100 other things) reaffirms my decision to stay with 30boxes over GCal. Keep up the great work!
May 4th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
the to-do list looks great!!
quick question, have you guys implemented reminders via one box (and email) I’d settle for being able to choose between SMS and email reminder with the “!” suffix and choosing a default remind time, but I’d love it even more to see a syntax for flexible reminders.
Thanks for all the great work you guys do!!
May 4th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
I’m with Sam. There has been nothing done by gCal that 30 hasn’t already done and better. You got me.
To-Do mobile?
May 4th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Will the Todo list get integrated into the iCal subscriptions?
May 4th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
I updated this feature so you can now enter To Do items via the One Box. Just have the word “todo” somewhere in your text, e.g.: “todo buy keg for party tag party”.
This also works for email submissions: send “todo buy flowers for mom” to “add at 30boxes.com” and we’ll take care of it.
May 4th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Great Job. This is one of those features I desparately wanted, but didn’t know it.
May 5th, 2006 at 1:31 am
Great! What about an RSS-Feed for the To-Do-List?
May 5th, 2006 at 2:11 am
Thanks a lot, this works wonders and helps me. Come every Friday afternoon I usually bring a cluttered post-it-note to our staff meeting, but this time it’s a nicely formatted list featuring all to-do-items tagged “Friday meeting”, of course printed using “Show items tagged Friday meeting”. Sweet.
May 5th, 2006 at 5:37 am
can you guy do for me one more thing. i am in Thailand and a big FAN of your. however, i would like you to do Instant Messaging reminder like the one Remember the milk offers. it could be MSN, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ — any one of these would be ok. pls becasue i dont have SMS as i am not in USA
thanks for consideration.
May 5th, 2006 at 7:17 am
Is there a way to get my to do list as a rss feed.
May 5th, 2006 at 11:17 am
Wow! You guys are on op of it! Awesome job please keep up the great work you guys are doing great.
May 5th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Very good job. I been using NextAction for GTD and 30 boxes parallely. Now i can do in GTD in 30 Boxes itself. Amazing.
May 5th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Alan,
I have a scheduled task that downloads my calendar in iCal format every day so that it can be displayed on my desktop by Rainlendar. I’ve only entered one todo item, and it appears, but it appears under the items for “today”, rather than as a todo item.
It would be nice if 30boxes would change the tagging so that these were todo items instead of events. That would be:
‘BEGIN:VTODO’
in the .ics file instead of
‘BEGIN:VEVENT’
then they would show up in the correct place when read by a program that understands the ics format.
May 6th, 2006 at 9:12 am
I like it, but could there be a way to tag an event as a todo at the same time? I use my calendar mostly for school assignments, so a lot of the items are todos anyway. Maybe tagging an item “todo” would create a todo with all of the other tags also.
eg: “read chapter 7 monday tag homework tag todo” would create a todo item tagged homework.
If I wasn’t clear, just ask.
May 7th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
excellent addition. keeping 30boxes feature-wise above google and aesthetics-wise FAR above google.
having problems with the “right-click” on mac with firefox 1.5. when i control-click i actually get the firefox right-click options over top of the 30boxes one, so i can’t use the 30boxes right-click menu. any ideas?
May 8th, 2006 at 5:00 am
right-click is broken in Firefox/WinXP in the same fashion Arvind grover describes.
how does the add-via-email thing work? i seem to have missed this feature. . .
May 8th, 2006 at 6:39 am
I have the same problem as Arvind with firefox 1.5.0.3 and windows xp. Do love the todo feature though. Thanks.
May 8th, 2006 at 11:24 am
When you’re editing a todo item, could you guys add a “ctrl+enter” for submitting the change and “Esc” for first exiting the editing and only then closing the window.
Also, in calendar I was able to tag using “tag one two” but here I have to use “tag one tag two” which one is correct?
Question: Are tags the same as in calendar or is there a new set that’s created? Because I’m not seeing the ones from my calendar.
[Narendra: right now ESC generally clears all large windows back to the calendar. The syntax is “tag one tag two” and if you like Dr. Seuss then “tag red tag blue” as well. Tags from your calendar are separate from to dos — we figured people will use tags in to dos as list names and they have no place cluttering your calendar.]
May 8th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
The problem you have is on your end not theirs… http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1464
May 9th, 2006 at 9:54 am
I think Tim already suggested this, but it would be MUCH better if a TODO list item could also be a calendar entry. The idea is that any TODO item with a date associated with it is also a calendar entry, but they are connected. If I delete the TODO item, the calendar entry is also deleted. Another way to view this is that the TODO list is a new “view” of select calendar items (those tagged ‘todo’?)?
A few more thoughts:
- If a TODO item does not have a date associated with it, then it is visible only in the TODO list.
- Would be great if the list had a “today” and “tomorrow” view option
Thanks for the great work!
Aaron
May 10th, 2006 at 7:38 am
Damn you 30b! Just when i get used to GCal you lure me back.
I find it inexcusable that GCal doesn’t have a to-do list, and this is probably the feature that’ll have me re-importing my .ical list :)
May 11th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Just noticed an interesting bug with todo.
When you’re inside the todo window you reorder the items and then mark any item as “done” all reordering dissapears (goes to the order in which it was when just opened).
I’m still wondering if it’s possible to add “ctrl+enter” for submitting changes for a todo item. I just hate using mouse all the time and you have shortcuts for almost anything.
Oh, and last thought, do you have any shortcut to focus the onebox? If no then it would be a very neet one.
May 18th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
hitting “TAB, SPACE” while editing a todo item jumps to the “save” button and submits.
the onebox has a tabindex of 1, so after you refresh the page, or submit an entry, just hit TAB and the cursor should focus on the onebox.
June 2nd, 2006 at 8:02 am
How about having multiple lists? Just like Ta-da Lists?
I like to have a weekly to-do list, and at the moment I simply tag my items as “week22″, “week23″, etc. But I can’t keep doing it as I will end up with too many redundant tags.
June 9th, 2006 at 10:27 am
I agree completely with Aaron Lefohn’s comments regarding linkages between tasks and calendar items and I particular like his “view” suggestion
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:26 am
I second Matthew Chan’s multiple lists idea. I’d like to be able to view more than one list at a time.
On a related note, is there a way the “webtop view” could be customized? It would be really cool to see a calendar view at the top and several simultaneous lists below.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Oh noes, a ToDo system that an English Major can understand and use! I’ll be giving this the ol’ Wife Test 2.0. Stikkit failed the Wife Test 2.0.
Great work. If you are looking for more suggestions, it would be pretty…um…killer to be able to share or create a ToDo for another 30b user. (Wife Collaboration 2.0)
If anyone is using Jott to email Gmail to email 30b, (http://jeffdiogenes.blogspot.com/2007/05/im-like-sandwich-sandwich-for-insane.html) I find spelling out T-O-D-O instead of saying “To Do…” is the magic needed to make a 30b todo from your phone, using your voice.
Sweeeeet.