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In May of 2005 I released an online time-management tool called tasktoy. I mostly did it because I was learning Zope and wanted to build something that would be useful to me and my friends. A couple of days later it was mentioned in Lifehacker (back when they talked more about things like time management and life skills and less about how to encode movies in Ubuntu) and it took off from there.
Although it’s been called “not much to look at” and “badly in need of a redesign” (I was never a graphic designer, but was particularly unskilled at CSS back then), it’s continued to gain in popularity over the past couple of years. It’s been mentioned in many blogs and in the Boston Globe, thanks to my friend Jeff who was interviewed about the ways he manages time as an independent consultant.
I’m writing this because I still get emails thanking me for tasktoy and, given the nature of the application, expressing concern that I might not continue to run it. I just want to reassure everyone that it continues to run with no maintenance on my part, and I have no plans to stop running it unless you all move on to something else.
Also, I make no money from tasktoy (those little ads return an average of about 10c/day) and I’ve consistently refused donations, but I really enjoy getting the thank-you emails.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:20 am
This post prompted me to give you a thank you… Thank you! I love that Tasktoy is not over-complicated. It does exactly what I need it to do, has a great learning-curve, and is just as customizable as I need it to be. Awesome work!
January 27th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
That’s amazing. I just clicked on your
weblog link on my tasktoy page with the
express purpose of trying to find out
whether you were thinking of discontinuing
it or not. I thought, Wonder how long this
necessary tool will be available to me?
And the very top post is a direct answer to
my question!
Thank you so much for Tasktoy. It’s perfect.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:26 am
I love tasktoy, too! If you’re up to enhancement suggestions, I would suggest:
1. Making an iGoogle gadget for it (rememberthemilk.com has one)–very handy.
2. Allow sub-tasks and sub-sub-tasks, etc. (as with treedolist.com)–seems to be the way my tasks like to unfold.
Thanks so much for creating a truly useful tool and sticking by it!
Dan
February 4th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Oops… one more suggestion (and for this I will be eternally grateful!!!):
3. Import/export/synchronize tasks between tasktoy and MS Outlook.
Even just a one-time import from Outlook would save me hours of typing! An import (or best of all, synch utility) would allow users to keep tasks stored locally as well.
airset.com is the only task-managing site that I know of (so far) that has this feature; its Outlook synch tool works really well. But I prefer tasktoy’s simple interface for keeping track of my to-do’s.
Thanks for listening,
Dan
March 31st, 2008 at 9:17 am
I’ve been a daily user for the last year or so.
Two features I’d like to see added:
- RSS feeds
- sourcecode (just for peace-of-mind
thx!
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2. This evil gremlin keeps showing up in my browser; both on desktop browsers and iPod Touch.
502 – Bad Gateway
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If you are the website owner, please see Error: 502 Bad Gateway documentation for more information and possible steps to resolve the problem.
It never lasts long enough to be debilitating, so far never longer than an hour, but if there’s something I can do about it from my end or some simple fix you can do–well, it would save me some semi-daily anxiety.
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