Loocks like tracks (try @ tracks.tra.in), but a XMPP interface would be superior

Yep, I’d seen Tracks before, and it looks pretty nice (and mature, which is obviously more than can be said for MaybeLater at the moment), nice enough that I battled through the issues I had getting ruby/rails to work even (my fault I’m sure, rather than anyone else’s). In the end though, it didn’t quite work the way that I wanted to.

I’ve just started looking at the XMPP interface, which should be fun

Give Hiveminder a try… They have:

* Web interface;
* IMAP interface (with offline IMAP support);
* SMTP interface (send mail to create tasks);
* XMPP interface;
* API with full access to your data;
* command line interface.

Also you are able to share tasks with other people, even if they don’t have a hiveminder account.

I believe that you won’t run out of options with it.

http://hiveminder.com/

best regards,

Sorry, forgot something. A quick 15 minutes introduction, with audio:

http://www.slideshare.net/pjf/effective-procrastination-with-hiveminder

Best regards,

Integration with django using directly the classes you have define is quite easy. I have created a small twisted jabber bot and getting info from django is so easy this is indecent.

You beat me to it I was planning on creating a similar application in Django for a while too, to get started in serious Python programming. I’ll follow MaybeLater with interest.

@Pedro Melo: Hiveminder looks nice, but it wasn’t quite what I wanted (and it’s yet another webservice, and I fancied having something I could fiddle with the source of in my own deployment). I’m not really looking for options - I’m looking for the smallest possible setup which lets me Get Things Done

@Misc: yes, I coded up Jabber support soon after writing this post - I can now message a bot to have tasks dropped into my inbox, no questions asked. I’ll probably add some syntax to allow me to shorthand a context and project into the message at some point.

@Michiel Scholten: If you wanted to have a look at it, the MaybeLater source is still pretty trivial, and if you want an excuse to learn Django, join in - there’s still some things I’d like to do with it.

Hi. Some time ago I had a experiment on tracking my daily work-related activity by writing out tasks I do and calculating some results. I wrote here http://sandlex.blogspot.com/2008/01/thoughts-about-time-logging.html about it. It was very difficult to write all these things in text files and I even decided to write tracking application. I made a prototype and after analysis it was clear that this kind of application is not handy. The best solution came to my mind was to write a bot for Twitter whom I’ll send short messages like: start writing design, stop writing design. And bot will automatically process such messages, build a chains of these tasks taking into account timestamps when it got messages and through the special interface show me some tables, diagrams describing how productive I was. The problem is I have no idea how to write bots for twitter so I gave up this idea. Maybe you can write something like this based on jabber-protocol? Extend the functionality you’ve planned to do by adding some analytic features.

Something like that could be moderately easily done with a similar setup, yes.
I’m not sure that it’s in scope for maybelater though, and I have enough on my plate without starting a new project, I’m afraid.

I’d be happy to talk you through it though, if you want to get coding

At last Django-powered GTD service!
Very good news!