I apologize in advance for what you will see is eventually a shameless plug, but I must comment on what I have experienced in my career wrangling with task management products. Since I'm sort of an Agile developer, I've spent a lot of time studying open-source bug tracking tools like Bugzilla, custom-tailored tools like XPlanner for eXtreme Programming, and even built one of my own (I called it XPTracker). After all that, I still haven't been satisfied with tools that try to do too much.
When I started learning about the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology, read the book, and drank generous helpings of the Kool-Aid, I went looking for GTD tools. Many of them were stuck on only one platform, offered the same tired list-oriented strategies as everyone else, or just weren't very good for collaboration.
So, a buddy of mine and I got together and brainstormed a few months ago (we've been brainstorming for a couple years now, trying new ideas and rejecting them, experimenting with distributed vs. centralized storage, and so on) and discovered that our own personal systems that we use in our homes, based on a simple cork board with cards on it, or a white board with notes, works really well. What's better, if you can come up with some simple spatial rules that describe really quickly and easily who's doing what (admittedly we borrowed ideas from Mingle on this), and what is left to get done, you can build a great tool that's extremely functional, but doesn't really get in your way.
Along came our idea -- Pegby -- an online app that allows you to create an unlimited collection of virtual "boards" that, once we're done building out all the functionality, will allow you to collect all the stuff in your life (work, personal, hobby) into a single coherent system. The coolest thing about it for me is that as all your friends join in with their own boards, everybody's systems start to overlap with each other, and the whole group of people starts to get much more productive all at once. At least, that's the hope!
Anyway, I hope you'll check our stuff out some time -- I realize it's in an early alpha phase right now, but we're making steady progress, and hope to have a real beta out early next year. As it stands, we're using it successfully to plan its own development, and it's been a real joy to have everything so easily accessible. So at least we've proven to ourselves that the system works!
TechCrunch is citing AT&T is behind it, yet they have absolutely no evidence to indicate that. It is in both Apples and AT&Ts interest to keep the Google Voice app off the iPhone. TechCrunch is just blaming AT&T so they can keep their Apple fanboyism going.
To be fair, they just posted an update --
Update: John Gruber has confirmed with a trusted source that AT&T is to blame for the Google Voice ban.
Check out Drobo, too.. it automatically moves data around if a drive fails. When a red light comes on, just pop another drive in:
http://www.drobo.com/
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Hey guys,
I apologize in advance for what you will see is eventually a shameless plug, but I must comment on what I have experienced in my career wrangling with task management products. Since I'm sort of an Agile developer, I've spent a lot of time studying open-source bug tracking tools like Bugzilla, custom-tailored tools like XPlanner for eXtreme Programming, and even built one of my own (I called it XPTracker). After all that, I still haven't been satisfied with tools that try to do too much.
When I started learning about the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology, read the book, and drank generous helpings of the Kool-Aid, I went looking for GTD tools. Many of them were stuck on only one platform, offered the same tired list-oriented strategies as everyone else, or just weren't very good for collaboration.
So, a buddy of mine and I got together and brainstormed a few months ago (we've been brainstorming for a couple years now, trying new ideas and rejecting them, experimenting with distributed vs. centralized storage, and so on) and discovered that our own personal systems that we use in our homes, based on a simple cork board with cards on it, or a white board with notes, works really well. What's better, if you can come up with some simple spatial rules that describe really quickly and easily who's doing what (admittedly we borrowed ideas from Mingle on this), and what is left to get done, you can build a great tool that's extremely functional, but doesn't really get in your way.
Along came our idea -- Pegby -- an online app that allows you to create an unlimited collection of virtual "boards" that, once we're done building out all the functionality, will allow you to collect all the stuff in your life (work, personal, hobby) into a single coherent system. The coolest thing about it for me is that as all your friends join in with their own boards, everybody's systems start to overlap with each other, and the whole group of people starts to get much more productive all at once. At least, that's the hope!
Anyway, I hope you'll check our stuff out some time -- I realize it's in an early alpha phase right now, but we're making steady progress, and hope to have a real beta out early next year. As it stands, we're using it successfully to plan its own development, and it's been a real joy to have everything so easily accessible. So at least we've proven to ourselves that the system works!
Stephen Starkey
Co-Founder
pegby.com
TechCrunch is citing AT&T is behind it, yet they have absolutely no evidence to indicate that. It is in both Apples and AT&Ts interest to keep the Google Voice app off the iPhone. TechCrunch is just blaming AT&T so they can keep their Apple fanboyism going.
To be fair, they just posted an update -- Update: John Gruber has confirmed with a trusted source that AT&T is to blame for the Google Voice ban.
Use your own?
Check out Drobo, too.. it automatically moves data around if a drive fails. When a red light comes on, just pop another drive in: http://www.drobo.com/
FYI .. Apple Numbers gives the right result: 3,824,345,300,380,220