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Sneak preview of new featuresJanuary 31st, 2007 by Nick |
We’ve opened up one of our test sites so curious users can see what we’re working on, before it’s released on the live site. We love user feedback and it’s better to get outside opinions before we subject everyone to our latest whim. We plan to leave this site open indefinitely and use it as one of our final test platforms before code goes live.
The first feature you can preview: DRAG & DROP, which I’ve almost finished, is something that’s been requested for a long time. It wasn’t hard to implement, but we’ve always thought it’s more sexy than actually useful, so it was on the back burner for a while.
Here’s the beta site, have a look and tell us what you think!
30 Boxes!
February 1st, 2007 at 3:08 am
I’d disagree with that part about drag-and-drop being more sexy than actually useful. I often have to reschedule my appointments and events a lot — drag-and-dropping is more intuitive and friendlier than editing the entry to put a different date.
February 1st, 2007 at 3:21 am
You will need to get a different API key for Google Maps. It’s giving me an error.
February 1st, 2007 at 4:54 am
Thank you!
This is definitely both sexy and VERY useful. Agree with the above comment - it’s much faster, more intuitive and more user-friendly than having to edit the entry.
One comment - it would be nice if you could figure out some way of dragging and dropping calendar entries that aren’t visible on the default view (e.g. I have 4 items to a day set, and some days I have much more than 4 things on my calendar - at the moment I can see them by mousing over, but not drag and drop them out).
A related suggestion (just one of those “bells and whistles things”). It would be nice if you could add a tag to a todo item by drag and dropping it onto one of the tag entries on the todo sidebar. It intuitively would feel like dropping the item into a new folder. As I say - not core functionality, but it would be nice.
February 1st, 2007 at 5:46 am
love the drag & drop.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Outstanding… it’s a beta site of a beta site. Wouldn’t that make it an alpha? When can we expect to see beta.beta.30boxes.com? :-)
February 1st, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I’ve definitely had things rescheduled and dragging and dropping is easier. It would be nice if there as way to drag a new time range onto it as well. Perhaps a set of times outside the calendar and I can grab one and put it on an entry. How wild would that be?
February 1st, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Nick, this is awesome. Thanks for working on this (I think) highly requested feature! By the way, if we update data here, does it affect production?
Found a bug with D&D (which you probably know about): dragging multi-day events should refresh all affected days. I dragged a 3-day event from starting Thursday to starting Tuesday, but Saturday and Friday still showed the event.
Hey, by the way, is there any visibility for having a “busy data” calendar view? I was sharing my free time this week with someone but had to type it all out in an email (so web 1.0!).
Thanks, Ken
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:00 pm
The drag and drop is very sexy!
February 2nd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
A suggestion:
What would be hot would be if, as you type a date and time in the “ADD” box, you use Ajax a la Google Suggest to tentatively show where the new event will be created.
For example, I tried typing “next monday 3″ instead of “next monday at 3″ and had to hit enter and then delete, say yes, and re-type.
Instead, 30boxes could show the event tenatively, perhaps in italics, as I type. Would be sweet :)
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
sweet
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Another suggestion:
Users might want to paste in multi-line event text.
In particular, things of the form:
“Date: Feb 10, 2007
Time: 3pm
Where: Your office”
How can we do that now?
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm
I cant find the “week view” function
February 3rd, 2007 at 6:51 pm
i like the week view but the button for the week view took me wayyy to long to find… i wish it were a little more evident than that little dot on the left side of the week… drag and drop is the hotness though!
February 4th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
the week view is hidden in those little ยป symbols along the left hand side, one at the beginning of each week. clicking on it brings up a weekly overview (which spans across most of the page) just like the daily overview. It’s very nice.
These new features look really great and I’m glad to see them, but I really wish you guys could overhaul or replace your default template. There are even quite a few very simple and neat looking ones already made by some of your users published in your forums. I think this faux mac-brushed-steel look is actually stopping me from recommending 30boxes to some more design-conscious individuals, also changing themes (to non-30boxes default themes) is much too much of a hack. Ideally, you could associate an account with a theme URI so that whenever I log onto another computer I don’t have to manually reset my themeURI.
cheers
many thanks
February 4th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
It looks like you guys have overhauled the theme switching interface and even linked to some user-made themes, I’m very glad to see this change (and I’m sorry for complaining about it a couple minutes ago). I still think it would be best if you were to update or replace the default theme (since it’s those first few seconds that count most); otherwise though, I really dig your welcome page
February 4th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
re: Niranjanan , I think way of allowing drag-and-dropping of events that don’t make it to the main calendar view (and also a pretty vital feature regardless) is to implement d&d in the week view.
I would also second the drag-to-tag feature request for todos.
great work !
February 8th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
I still don’t see the week view. I am running Firefox.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
I need to post up to 10 events on a given day? Is there a way I can do this with 30 Boxes. it seems to run over to the next day when I add over 6 things.
Thanks
February 19th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I had a had time finding the week view as well, and have been using 30b for some time now.
Also, I put in a long info field in an event on the YUI first year party, and it makes the printed view really ugly (a few hundred characters worth).
~L
February 19th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
I like the animated gif at the top of this blog page.
I don’t necessarily want an animated gif on my calendar, but it’d be nice to have a stronger visual identity for 30boxes, or at least to be able to chose from one of those frames.
I feel like although the minimal design lets me Get Things Done, at the same time it doesn’t make the site particularly memorable, and unlike sites like Vox or so on, when I signed up, I wasn’t asked to name my site.
I feel like I’m not attached enough to my calendar to say it’s My calendar, but I guess it depends what you all are going for.
~L