Comments on: Vitalist – Grouping by Project and Context

By: HelloWorld

HelloWorld — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:02:54 +0000

Peace people

We love you

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:34:12 +0000

You guys rock!

I was adding a project, from the list and I wanted to go back and check on a project. I looked in the drop down list and they were in alpha order!

Great!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:58:52 +0000

I’m excited about Vitalist, having discovered it a few days ago. I have a few questions – If this is not the place for them, let me know.

What is the inbox for? Does it display Actions due today? Doesn’t the Dashboard do that?

Why the specialized Waiting and Someday folders? Shouldn’t I be able to do the same thing with Actions coded with Someday/Maybe or Waiting For contexts?

Is there a way to move an Action from Someday to Actions when I finally decide to do it?

Why the Ticklers? Isn’t that what an Actions list, sorted by due date is?

Anyway, I’m excited to get my feet wet. I currently use David Allen’s Outlook add-in, which works fine – when I’m in the office. I’m hoping Vitalist can provide more of a web 2.0 type of GTD.

ps, I agree with Lynn O’Connor – Priorities is not GTD. I don’t plan on using them.

By: joshua

joshua — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:47:20 +0000

Already they’ve addressed several of my concerns, barely two days later. That, my friends, is dedicated customer service. Keep the faith and all will be well, folks.

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:27:59 +0000

You’ve already added back in the ability to add a new contact or project within a task! It is the little things that make us happy.

Keep up the fabulous work. I agree with Stephen that you shouldn’t feel pressured to get everything fixed right away. Keep us updated, though, on progress. That will keep me coming back.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:35:10 +0000

First off, you guys are doing a *great* job. The newest gtd outlook add on was just released and you’re version offers much more then theirs and this isn’t even your full time gig (I think).

I’m in IT and understand just adding a button is *not* as simple as most people think it is so don’t feel pressured to get the changes done by next week.

Perhaps a few bullet points of what is going to return, in the order of what you are working on, would calm some of the chatter.

In the future, would it be possible to have a beta test that runs in parallel so people can give you feed back. It might slow the release process a little but it might be a smother process to have a larger slice of your user population. This really is a NEW version of vitalist, and not an upgrade and some of the features that made it flow so naturally have now been removed.

Thanks again for the great work!

By: Harpreet

Harpreet — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:52:44 +0000

For me the new app is a step away from the intuitive feel to the product earlier. Some things that are confusing me are:
1. If I click on the “My Projects’ link it takes me to the list of the projects once I am there I will like to click on the project to see the list of items I need to get done there.
2. On adding a new item on the “Inbox” menu and I assign it to a project, it just remains there instead of moving to the project – so I am now keeping track of it in two places.

There are some kinks that need to be ironed out. If you had your bug tracking system exposed we could file bugs instead of posting comments.

By: MikeDidIt

MikeDidIt — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:26:34 +0000

I think we all need to keep things in perspective. From my view:
- Not having an alpha list of projects is admittedly annoying but is not earthshattering.
- Not having the Context view is very painful
- Not being able to drag and drop is much missed. Not that the priority concept doesn’t work for a next action, it is just that it only allows me to have one Red priority at a time (so I can be sure it sorts at the top).
- Not being able to send an item to Waiting at creation time wastes time (unless you make a context called Waiting).
- Not being able to add a context using the Add Action bar at the top of the Action list wastes time.
- etc.

I don’t agree with Joe that Vitalist is “NOT GTD right now” as I seem to be doing OK with my GTD-centric view of the world. I agree that Vitalist is different that it was last week, it is more flexible which always equates to more complex, and it is wasting some of my precious time right now (which I greatly dislike).

But, I am sticking here until the Vitalist team tells us to pound sand which is effectively what 37Signals group has done to their users with their unwillingness to add the most basic features (like item level tags which Vitalist does great!) In my view, Vitalist is still the best web-based GTD tool out there, even its numerous warts following the upgrade.

I agree with Joshua, I bet it will not be long before we see results from the team.

Have a great one!

By: john

john — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:41:12 +0000

time to chill out and give them a chance, before jumping on their backs. Give it some time…unless you want to get behind the wheel and program everything

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:48:14 +0000

What happened to the alpha listing of projects? I would like to see the alphabetical listing of projects the way it was before. Like on the side bar and the action lists.