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Re: Your personal corkboard

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Post by zcid » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 4:42 AM UTC

aquark wrote: post #26

timothyjcoulter wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This makes me happy. If you had to name a price what would it be?

Something in the $4.99 a month range would be a no-brainer. Going forward I'd see the most important features to add as: * some simple text formatting: bold, italics, bullet points. * clickable URLs (opening in a new tab) * a way to cycle throw the Z-order of the stickies, I keep moving them around to uncover the ones underneath * fixing the weird bug where by new stickies appear off screen sometimes (Chrome 12 on Wi…

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Re: Your personal corkboard

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Post by crag » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 4:54 AM UTC

timothyjcoulter wrote: post #25

aquark wrote: post #24

I've tried various to-do managers, notes apps, etc over the years. Everything from Google tasks to 37 signals stuff, Remember the Milk, etc, etc. Nothing has stuck for me. Until this. Don't know what it is about it, perhaps the free form nature of the UI, but it is one of the tabs I keep open all the time with a big pile of 'to-do' items on. My main concern is actually having it just disappear! I'd like to see the op…

This makes me happy. If you had to name a price what would it be?

Don't forgot about multi-user licenses. I'd love to incorporate this into our intranet. This is great.

Anyway to back up your notes?

Re: Your personal corkboard

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Post by crag » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 5:00 AM UTC

icco wrote: post #29

timothyjcoulter wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was released Dec. 2nd, so not that long. There are competitors. Big things coming soon.

Hasn't the project been live for much longer than that? I feel like I used it a long time ago... maybe it was one of these competitors you speak of...

This sort of reminds of something I saw in the Lively Kernel (http://labs.oracle.com/projects/lively/) a while ago.

Re: Your personal corkboard

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Post by crag » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 5:02 AM UTC

ilikepi wrote: post #30

ac2u wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a guess... but I'd say they wanted to make it tablet-friendly.

Hmm...doesn't seem to play well with Safari on iOS...no obvious way to move or resize a sticky.

But it is working fine on Safari on OSX. Something the dev needs to look at.

Re: Your personal corkboard

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Post by swirlee » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 5:23 AM UTC

This is cool. Realtime? Awesome.

Some thoughts:

* As others have mentioned, it's too easy to single-click accidentally and create a note.

* Pasting a URL to an image isn't discoverable. An explicit button for this on the toolbar, or one that appears when a new note is created, would be better.

* That aside, I really, really want to be able to just drag and drop images from my computer onto the page.

* As others have noted I wish I could zoom out to see more notes. The "map" is a good start but I think it should be fully zoomable.

* Chat is cool but it sort of takes you out of the experience. Try experimenting with integrating the chat into the corkboard metaphor, maybe: Instead of a pop-up in the lower-left corner, let me create post-its that are actually live chat rooms.

Anyway, this is a great start. I hope you keep improving it!

Re: Your personal corkboard

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Post by krat0sprakhar » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 6:29 AM UTC

Looks awesome. I small issue though: I tried collaborating with a friend and everytime I have to hit refresh to see the changes he has made. I'm not sure if this is intended.

Re: Your personal corkboard

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Post by aith » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 6:42 AM UTC

A timeline would be a great feature too. Being able to scroll back to my old notes and check things.

Re: Your personal corkboard

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Post by greengirl512 » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 6:56 AM UTC

aquark wrote: post #26

timothyjcoulter wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This makes me happy. If you had to name a price what would it be?

Something in the $4.99 a month range would be a no-brainer. Going forward I'd see the most important features to add as: * some simple text formatting: bold, italics, bullet points. * clickable URLs (opening in a new tab) * a way to cycle throw the Z-order of the stickies, I keep moving them around to uncover the ones underneath * fixing the weird bug where by new stickies appear off screen sometimes (Chrome 12 on Wi…

Except for the mobile app, everything you want is right here: http://www.spaaze.com/

Re: Your personal corkboard

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Post by tomjen3 » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 8:55 AM UTC

I love it, but it would be awesome if there was some way to persist the corkboard. As a minimum save the url in a long term cookie or something.

But definitely useful.

Re: Your personal corkboard

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Post by Hominem » Thu, Apr 28, 2011, 2:56 AM UTC

Very cool, I wrote something similar for my company's clients to annotate various online documents. The UI on corkboard is nicer but I have arrows,drawing tools and you can rotate the notes around so text can vertical if you want.