Comments on: Managing ‘todo’ lists – MaybeLater

By: Back to time-logging experiments « sandlex.com

Back to time-logging experiments « sandlex.com — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:03:04 +0000

[...] or service. I gave it a try but gave up. Why? Here an explanation. This is a my quotation from this blog: sandlex wrote on April 9, [...]

By: jaydee77

jaydee77 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:53:36 +0000

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

By: Kev

Kev — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:56:43 +0000

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

By: sandlex

sandlex — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:00:14 +0000

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.

By: Kev

Kev — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:49:25 +0000

@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.

By: Michiel Scholten

Michiel Scholten — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:49:21 +0000

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.

By: Misc

Misc — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:27:09 +0000

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.

By: Pedro Melo

Pedro Melo — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:16:30 +0000

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

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

Best regards,

By: Pedro Melo

Pedro Melo — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:13:20 +0000

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,

By: Kev

Kev — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:45:33 +0000

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