The Net Effect Blog

A couple of weeks ago, we were informed on our user forums about a cool new way of adding actions to Vitalist through a website called Jott. Jott makes it easy to send new actions to your Vitalist account with voice messages. The messages are transcribed to text and emailed to your inbox.

These are the steps to send new actions to your Vitalist account with Jott:

1. Sign up for a free Jott account
2. Add your Vitalist email adress (username-pin@vitalist.com) as a contact in Jott
3. Call Jott’s 1-800 number and leave a new action for your Vitalist contact

It is that easy. The new action should show up in your Vitalist inbox within a few minutes.

To read more, visit shainemata.net and the jottblog experiment.

We are excited to announce that we have just pushed our latest update to my.vitalist.com. A few of the new features and changes in this release include:

1. Drag & drop re-ordering
2. Drag & drop between groupings
3. Drag & drop re-arranging of the filter boxes to your preferred order
4. Lists are loaded through AJAX rather than a page refresh
5. New dashboard, start page, and print settings
6. Better international language support

Unfortunately, the archives and the number of inbox items indicator are not available at release time. These should be added in the next day or two.

If you have any issues with the release, please let us know in our forums or at support@vitalist.com.

Also, we would like to thank our beta users for their testing and feedback on the update.

Just wanted to let everyone know that we are planning to introduce the newest version of Vitalist this Friday at around 7pm central. Your Vitalist acount may be inaccessible for a few minutes at that time, but we believe a Friday evening release will reduce the inconvenience for everyone.

While we still have several features left to finish and a couple bugs to iron-out, we are confident this gives us plenty of time to get everything done.

For the past few weeks, we have been working on a new update for Vitalist that will include drag & drop functionality and a few other feature enhancements. This update is nearly ready for release, but we would first like to try it out with a few beta testers to help us work out the kinks.

If you are interested in testing out the new system, please send an email to beta@vitalist.com including your Vitalist account email address. When we are ready to start the beta, we will email you back with instructions.

All data entered into the beta will be for testing purposes only and will have no effect on your current Vitalist account. As we plan on this being a short beta test, we are limiting the beta to the first 50 users who signup.

Also, please use the Beta section of our Vitalist forum to submit feedback and report bugs.

Just wanted to let everyone know that we have just finished fixing some of the usability issues that were found in the new Vitalist. The fixes and changes include:

• Added the “Save and add another” button
• Added a “Waiting On” field to make it easier to move actions to the Waiting list
• You can now add a new Project or Contact directly from the add/edit action screen
• The forgotten password page is back
• Projects and Contacts are now sorted alphabetically in the drop-down lists
• Filtering by project now includes all appropriate sub-project actions

We are still working hard on bringing back the Context and Project groupings. We are going to be adding drag & drop re-ordering to the new system, as well. Please bear with us, as these features are complicated and will take longer to release.

Thank you for your patience.

The update is here. We have just gone live with our latest version of Vitalist.

This update includes many new features and enhancements. To read about the major changes, please see the past few articles on this blog: Contexts as Tags, Sub-Projects, Quick Add/Edit, and Priority. We think you will find that these features make Vitalist both more powerful and more adaptable to different productivity styles.

We suggest that you clear your browser’s cache to ensure proper displaying of images in the new version. To do this in Firefox, select Tools->Clear Private Data in the menu. In IE, go to Tools->Internet Options and click the “Delete Files” button in the “Temporary Internet Files” grouping.

If you find any problems with the update, please let us know at support@vitalist.com and we will try to take care of it right away.

Just a quick note to let you know that we have revamped our help system on Vitalist. It is now structured as a knowledge base with help questions divided into specific categories. This new system will be able to grow with us as we add new features to Vitalist.

Three new features should make the knowledge base more useful. First, you can use the built-in search box to find help topics quicker. Each individual help topic can also be rated for it’s usefulness, with the highest rated topics being displayed on the first page. Also, users can send support messages directly to us through the “Contact Support” link, with no need to use e-mail.

I quickly wanted to point people in the direction of www.vitalist.mobi, where you can check out our mobile version of Vitalist. Add, edit, and delete items from any mobile browser on your phone or PDA. Get updated on your ticklers and create new ones. Fill in the completed date field to mark items complete. Also, the Dashboard, as well as all of your lists, is accessible for those on the go.

It’s simple to use, and it works with any mobile web browser. We kept Vitalist.mobi as small as possible, so the pages should load quickly on any phone or network. Plus, this helps to keep your bandwidth usage low.

So, if you haven’t already, give it a try at www.vitalist.mobi or go to the tour to learn more and see screenshots. Let us know what you think.

Thank you for checking out The Net Effect, the new blog for Vitalist Solutions.

We decided to start this blog because we felt we needed a way to let our users know what is going on here at Vitalist Solutions. We are constantly trying to improve Vitalist and we believe that your feedback here will help us tremendously.

So exactly what are we going to talk about? Well…Vitalist updates, feature announcements, ideas for features, polls, and surveys mainly. But there will also be some random stuff thrown in about our interests, hopefully to mix things up a bit.

So check back with us soon, and please give us your opinions.