I hope the buy a task/todo company soon. Tasks is terrible.
Welcoming Timeful to Google
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#12Been waiting for a Tuneful Android app for months.
Guess I'll never get one. It'll be months I'm sure before some half-assed incomplete features make their way into Google calendar :/
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#13I hope the buy a task/todo company soon. Tasks is terrible.
I guess they have Google Keep for that use-case now, so perhaps it's unlikely? The Keep task list feature there is decent, with checkable items that automatically go to the bottom when done, the ability to set time or location based reminders, and sharing with others.
Still, it's a bit of a pain that it's embedded in a more general app - for me, that means it can be a bit hard to find my task lists among other notes or photos.
The gmail task applet wasn't great (usable, but barely). It's a real pity Google can't just get this right, because it's exactly the kind of basic functionality that you don't want to have another login/provider for, and want good mobile / web / cloud syncing for.
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#14I hope the buy a task/todo company soon. Tasks is terrible.
What's up with buying though. Why can't their teams come out with new features themselves.
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#16Maybe I missed it but what is the current fate of Timeful? Shut down or sunsetting?
Looks like they are sunsetting. They will be focusing on other projects at google
Sunsetting?! Did they all live in Finland in the middle of winter? It was a bloody short day.
I was a user of Timeful. It live[s|d] on my dock. The thing has only been around for what feels like 6 months ... so much for that. So much for altering your workflow to get used to a new service. So much for relying on something.
I don't recall if I paid for it, and thus have any right to be even slightly miffed, or if - more likely - it was free, and I should therefore just shut up and get on with my life.
When will this ever stop? It really makes me reticent to "trust" a new app, ever again.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like they are sunsetting. They will be focusing on other projects at google
Sunsetting?! Did they all live in Finland in the middle of winter? It was a bloody short day. I was a user of Timeful. It live[s|d] on my dock. The thing has only been around for what feels like 6 months ... so much for that. So much for altering your workflow to get used to a new service. So much for relying on something. I don't recall if I paid for it, and thus have any right to be even slightly miffed, or if - mo…
It was free, if it makes you feel any better.
I used it too, but it always felt like a good idea not yet fully executed.
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#18I hope the buy a task/todo company soon. Tasks is terrible.
Timeful was a TODO/task company, they just approached the problem in a different way, by arguing that the calendar and the TODO list should be the same app, not separate apps.
The idea was to have a TODO list with actual time committments associated, and you had the ability to actually schedule your TODO by slotting them into your calendar.
Functionally, it was a great idea, but it suffered greatly from a lack of integration with most other tools on the market. If Google runs with it, it could be interesting, hopefully they actually do something with the idea.
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#19Hmm, I couldn't really get this app to work well for me, but love that the premise is headed to Google, and hopefully their Calendar.
I do use Google Calendar all the time, and I would LOVE to be able to say, "do this thing sometime in the next couple of days" and have it linger on my calendar somehow - particularly for personal stuff, like "buy a birthday present for so-and-so" or "sign-up the kids for camp next week".
Looking forward to some interesting things here!
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#20The 'Links to this post' section/feature seems to be a clear backlinks scheme. Am I missing something, or is Google condoning link trading, here?