Comments on: New and Improved

By: Chad Brown

Chad Brown — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:01:23 +0000

I am really new to this. I read the David Allen book. I know that David Allen lent the name to an add-in for Outlook. I tried that and it does not pass the “simple and intuitive” test. That is what one should expect when you try to use a Microsoft product. So I come here and discover what appears to be a very new (starting in early 2007? or maybe 2006? web site. Don’t know who is doing it though. Would like to know. Looks like the idea is to charge for premium accounts and give it free for basis level of service but financine it with some ads on the right? [sorry, but I am old enough not to believe in free lunches]
GTD on a web site that tries to be really simple (ie like Google not like Microsoft)
What I want to know next is what are the elements here. This looks like a database with Actions as the key building blocks. An action can have a context. It can be part of a project and a project is going to be made up of a bunch of actoins. An inbox is a grouping of actions. There is something called a filter. Filters can be quick or context? Reference is not clear from the context. Looks like maybe it is old actons? I would have thought Reference was a place to store information I might like to refere to like phone numbers or addresses or passwords or something. I discovered that a little icon to the left that looks like a disk is something to click on to enter or save. How about a Help screen that displays in one place all the icons used on the site and what they stand for.
Then out of the blue I came across Simple Machines Forum. Like I woulod recognize their name. It seems tthey are some third party that has a forum application that is being used by Vitaqlist. So add a sentence in your simple introduction [the one that does not exist yet] to warn us.
Maybe I am not a typical user. I am the knod of person who likes to read the manual first. I know most people just dive in and only read the instructions when they get to a point where they cannot make the thing work by randomwly pushing buttons and entering data.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:03:03 +0000

Thank You

By: physio

physio — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:30:49 +0000

Drag and Drop re-ordering is gone?!? That was one of the biggest draws to Vitalist. Yikes. Is this a mistake??

By: neo

neo — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:10:49 +0000

Thanks for great improvement as new version!
I really like the beautiful look-and-feel.

It would be nice if we could set Context/Project/Action upon multiple items at the same time. That function is implemented on RTM, and I really like the function, because I have sometime s lots of things to list up, but would like to put such annotation later all together.

Thanks anyway.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:39:01 +0000

I miss being able to re-order actions. Also, I liked being able to add to actions from the dashboard. Now, I can only add to inbox.

By: phillip

phillip — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:16:38 +0000

“Doesnâ€™t make a lot of sense that you have to think first – am I waiting on anyone else for this – rather than being able to select this option no matter where I enter the option.”

I second! (actually bring the old version back would be my first choice and then make a few minor tweaks to it.)

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:36:03 +0000

Some great new features here, good work – and thank you!

I do have some wishes, though — wishes that I see other people have, too. Here are my emphatic dittos…

- REVIEW – I would like to have a review option where I can see all actions, waiting on & somedayâ€™s by project. This view should show the hierarchy of the project with actions grouped under sub projects.

Ditto! Unless I’m missing something, the ONLY way to see actions that have a contact defined for “Waiting On” is to go to the Waiting view. This requires that I remember to check this view — I need a way to see these actions along with all my other actions.

- Alphabetically sorted list of projects in the quick edit drop-down, so I can find them faster.

- The ability to add contexts in the quick add

- Sort by Project in the Actions list â€” with the secondary sort by either priority or date as specified in Settings.

Ditto!

- I think it makes sense that the action list display actions from all sub-projects when you filter by a parent project. Without this behavior I think the usefulness of sub-projects is limited.

Ditto!

return of the old â€œcontextâ€ view – that is the one I used all the time

Ditto!

The dropdown menus for Project, Context, and Waiting On should include an option at the bottom to â€œAdd new [Project/Context/Contactâ€¦]â€.

Ditto!

By: Mateo

Mateo — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:52:05 +0000

I second (or third, I lost count the request to be able to create a new project from a task entry screen. Right now I type out my task, realize I don’t have a project created for it and have to exit to go to the projects screen..

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:57:57 +0000

- GROUPING – The grouping of actions in a view is sadly missed, it gives you the BIG PICTURE and an easy way to REVIEW your actions, contexts and projects

- QUICK FILTERS – Filtering is a great idea for working on projects or by context and printing reports, when filtering on a project all sub projects and actions should be displayed.

- REVIEW – I would like to have a review option where I can see all actions, waiting on & someday’s by project. This view should show the hierarchy of the project with actions grouped under sub projects.

Excellent application and a great productivity tool

By: vslacks

vslacks — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:53:14 +0000

Does anyone understand how the new split between “someday” and “tickler” in the lefthand nav works?