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Hopefully everyone is enjoying the latest Vitalist update. Some features are coming out of beta, some are brand new, and some are just a few small tweaks here and there to better the user experience. Here is a quick rundown of the major updates included in the latest release:
- Speed – We are always working to improve the responsiveness when interacting with Vitalist.
- Advanced sorting – Previously, actions were mainly sorted manually by dragging and dropping actions into the desired location. Now you will have the option to keep the manual sort, or use a persistent sort by either due date, priority, or estimated time. You will see the new advanced ‘Sort’ option in the top right corner of your lists, next to the ‘Print’ option. (*Note: the “drag handle” has now moved from the right to the left side)
- Estimated time – You can now entered an “estimated time” option for actions. You will be able to filter, group by, and search on this new field. Currently the time values are limited to a defined list, but we are working on allowing custom entry similar to how the due date works.
- Offline access – Offline is now available to all paid subscribers, both Premium and Basic. You will be required to install Google Gears in order for this feature to work.
- Daily digest enhancement – Multiple daily digests are now supported, with the option to include all notes, only the latest notes, or no notes at all.
- Keyboard shortcuts – When viewing your list, use ctrl + a to select/deselect all the currently visible items. When editing an item, use ctrl + j to toggle between the available edit tabs.
- Mobile update – The next actions filter is now available on the mobile version, making processing actions much more efficient on the go.
Posted by Matt in update
October 30th, 2009 / 3 Comments
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on some new features that are in the pipeline. These features should be released in the upcoming weeks.
Estimated Time. Estimated time to complete an action is a feature we have gone back and forth on for some time with Vitalist. We now feel like we have found the best implementation for this feature, without adding any complexity to the user interface. The real benefit of this feature will be the additional sorting and searching capabilities, which will allow you to prioritize what to do based on time effort.
Advanced sorting. Currently the sorting of actions allows you to drag and drop your actions in any order you desire. If you want to sort by date or priority, those actions are available to re-sort your list. Let’s call this “Custom”. But I know sometimes you may always want your data sorted by Date or Priority, automatically. So now you will be able to choose from the following three options, Date, Priority, and Custom (current method of sorting). You will be able to quickly and easily toggle back and forth, giving you complete control of your data output.
Posted by Matt in feature, preview
Every once in a while I am going to be posting about some various features of Vitalist, most notably features that you may not be fully aware of. I am starting it off with one I personally use quite a bit.
I am a big fan of working with contexts and I like to take advantage of using multiple contexts per action. Though to make this really useful, you need to be able to filter on multiple contexts to truly narrow your focus on what you are doing. This can be accomplished by using the ‘ctrl’ key when selecting your filter. I will show you with an example:
I am at work and need to make a couple of phone calls. I can easily see what I need to do with multiple context filters. First I select ‘@work’ from the context filter list. Then I hold the ‘ctrl’ key and select the ‘@phone’ context. And voila, all the calls I need to make at work.
Posted by Matt in feature
Hopefully everyone is enjoying the latest updates we have made to Vitalist. Here are the latest features now available:
- Speed – We have worked very hard to improve speed all throughout the application
- Improved note handling – This is where you will notice quite a bit of change. We are using a new note input method, known as Markdown. More information will be released about this soon in our support. Also included is a pop-out window for better managing actions with longer notes.
- Icon shortcuts – All of the mini icons next to actions/projects now jump you directly to that tab when editing. For example, clicking the note icon will take you to the notes tab.
- Additional search options – Next actions only and a new sort are now available in the Smart Searches
- Group by Projects – When grouping actions by project, the project header will now display the project’s due date along with the related actions’ due dates.
- Offline support – We are releasing the beta for offline support using Google Gears. If you are interested in testing this out please email us at support@vitalist.com.
- iPhone App beta – We are releasing the beta for the iPhone app. If you are interested in testing this out please email us at support@vitalist.com.
Posted by Matt in update
We will be performing an upgrade tonight in order to release some much awaited new features, starting around 9:00pm CST on Tuesday, March 31, 2009. We expect any experienced downtime to be 30 minutes maximum.
We hope you will enjoy these new features.
Posted by Matt in maintenance
In order to make way for our impending update to Vitalist, we are going to be updating some urls for our current users. URLs involving the iPhone and mobile applications will be moved to a new location. The following changes will be made:
http://iphone.vitalist.com -> http://my.vitalist.com/iphone/
http://m.vitalist.com -> http://my.vitalist.com/mobile/
http://www.vitalist.mobi -> http://my.vitalist.com/mobile/
The main Vitalist application and related urls will remain unaffected. In order to make this transition as painless as possible, the above urls will automatically be redirected for you.
This update will go into effect this Saturday at 12:00AM EST.
Update: URL update is complete.
Posted by Matt in update
September 3rd, 2007 / 1 Comment
We are proud to announce that we will be attending the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco from Septemeber 5-7. We have been invited to speak on GTD and how it relates to Office 2.0.
We look forward to learning about new innovations and technologies, as we are always trying to improve the Vitalist product.
Posted by Matt
Many, many of you have asked for a Vitalist forum, and now you have it. Now you can share your experiences using Vitalist with other users. We will be monitoring this board frequently, so feel free to let us know what you think.
You can check it out now at http://www.vitalist.com/forums/
Posted by Matt
The long awaited context groupings are now back in Vitalist. You will now see the option in the upper right hand corner of the screen, along with the project grouping option. Make sure to refresh/clear your cache to see the changes.
We have been working hard on this update and were able to release it much quicker than anticipated. Hopefully everyone will enjoy this feature.
Next up on our plate is adding back the drap-n-drop functionality, which we will be getting out to you as soon as possible. As always, if you have any support related questions, please email us at support@vitalist.com, do not post them in the comments.
Posted by Matt
Obviously some of you are anxious for us to bring back the action groupings, and I am pleased to announce that Project groupings are now back in Vitalist. Now in the upper right hand corner of the page (next to the print button), you will have the option to group your actions by project.
We are also releasing some more features that everyone has been asking for:
- Persistant filters. Now your filters will be remembered when bouncing around different pages and edit actions.
- “No Project” and “No Context” filters. Now you can filters on actions without projects or contexts.
- Filters defaulted when adding a new action. Now when you are filtering a list, that filter will be defaulted as a selection when adding a new action.
We hope that you enjoy these new updates. We have been working hard to get these out to you as soon as possible. Contexts groupings will take a little longer to bring back, mainly because of the complexity of being able to have multiple contexts per action. As always, please direct any support related questions to support@vitalist.com.
Posted by Matt