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Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

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Re: Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

#21

Post by brett »

bootload wrote: post #19

".. 500 - Error Opps broke the chain Whoops. Looks like something actually did get broken. ..." Damn... I broke it. Nice error message though ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/1218317738/ - created user account - logged in - clicked on 2 successive days after today - they went red - clicked 'last 4 weeks' - barfed - now 500 on every login

Nice. Thanks. Should be fixed now.

I kept thinking that I should disable being able to toggle days after today because it did not provide any utility. It could have helped out in this case.

Re: Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

#22

Post by bootload »

brett wrote: post #21
bootload wrote: post #19

".. 500 - Error Opps broke the chain Whoops. Looks like something actually did get broken. ..." Damn... I broke it. Nice error message though ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/1218317738/ - created user account - logged in - clicked on 2 successive days after today - they went red - clicked 'last 4 weeks' - barfed - now 500 on every login

Nice. Thanks. Should be fixed now. I kept thinking that I should disable being able to toggle days after today because it did not provide any utility. It could have helped out in this case.

"... Nice. Thanks. Should be fixed now. ..."

Thanks brett, checked it, works.

"... I kept thinking that I should disable being able to toggle days after today because it did not provide any utility ..."

so I shouldn't have been able to click the days after today? Oh also found another PIA which is going to require a bit of a login detail. I'm Aus and close to the date line. Today, now is 2007AUG241154 meaning I'm working yesterday.

Any chance of making the default time format GMT, UTC ? Should allow everyone to be on the same page OR you'll have to (probably have to anyway) modify users time by selecting location then adjusting the date-time to the user location.

Re: Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

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Post by brett »

bootload wrote: post #22
brett wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice. Thanks. Should be fixed now. I kept thinking that I should disable being able to toggle days after today because it did not provide any utility. It could have helped out in this case.

"... Nice. Thanks. Should be fixed now. ..." Thanks brett, checked it, works. "... I kept thinking that I should disable being able to toggle days after today because it did not provide any utility ..." so I shouldn't have been able to click the days after today? Oh also found another PIA which is going to require a bit of a login detail. I'm Aus and close to the date line. Today, now is 2007AUG241154 meaning I'm wor…

"so I shouldn't have been able to click the days after today?"

No, I did not get to that. I just fixed it so that if all the days you've clicked are after today (PST) then it does not try to calculate the streak of days between today and the beginning of time.

And yeah, I was just lazy to not include timezones. I should fix that.

Re: Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

#25

Post by euccastro »

brett wrote: post #24
bootload wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"... Nice. Thanks. Should be fixed now. ..." Thanks brett, checked it, works. "... I kept thinking that I should disable being able to toggle days after today because it did not provide any utility ..." so I shouldn't have been able to click the days after today? Oh also found another PIA which is going to require a bit of a login detail. I'm Aus and close to the date line. Today, now is 2007AUG241154 meaning I'm wor…

"so I shouldn't have been able to click the days after today?" No, I did not get to that. I just fixed it so that if all the days you've clicked are after today (PST) then it does not try to calculate the streak of days between today and the beginning of time. And yeah, I was just lazy to not include timezones. I should fix that.

I have no idea if this is possible, but what about trying to read the timezone settings in the host computer with Javascript, rather than asking the user to set that?

Re: Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

#26

Post by euccastro »

eusman wrote: post #23

interesting! but one detail: the advice talks about a chain created by X. So, it should look like XXXXX but in the app it's red boxes not connected...

I like the red boxes better. Big chunks of those are easier to recognize as a block.

Re: Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

#27

Post by paulgb »

brett wrote: post #14
paulgb wrote: post #6

I like the iGoogle widget, this is something I could actually use.

At first I just tried to use the site itself as my homepage. I missed iGoogle.

Actually, that's not a bad idea. I don't use iGoogle as a homepage anyway, I found that too distracting so I switched to something less boring (it backfired, now I am in the habit of opening iGoogle as soon as I open the new browser window anyway), but making this a homepage would remind me without distracting me.

Re: Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

#28

Post by Alex3917 »

I like it. I added it as a link in my Firefox bookmarks bar. Definitely needs to support multiple chains though. Instead of multiple tabs, I think it would be best just to have a column of color blocks with the name of the chain on the right hand side of the page. Then when you clicked on a color that chain would be displayed.

Re: Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

#29

Post by brett »

Alex3917 wrote: post #28

I like it. I added it as a link in my Firefox bookmarks bar. Definitely needs to support multiple chains though. Instead of multiple tabs, I think it would be best just to have a column of color blocks with the name of the chain on the right hand side of the page. Then when you clicked on a color that chain would be displayed.

I think you're on to something. nickb's comment about iCal had me thinking along the same lines.

Re: Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

#30

Post by henning »

after you've read the lifehacker post for this, the app is completely self-explanatory just by looking at the interface and clicking a few days.

i'm impressed, and i'm a jaded snob who is totally cynical about web 2.0 crap.

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