Posts Tagged ‘youtube’

The little things count too; Nozbe adds automatic scrolling when switching projects

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I’ve written before about how small things can make a big difference: Getting rid of your email folders in Outlook, Using “Send & Archive” in Gmail, and things like that.  This is another example of that — it’ll only save you a couple of seconds, but it’ll save you those few seconds often, and it adds up to decent savings.

The project list in Nozbe can get a bit long for some of us, especially in Nozbe 2.0.  I’m waiting for them to compress the size of it a little bit more.  In the meantime, this will help.  I often have to scroll down pretty far to find a specific project.  When I click on it, the project data would load in the center panel, but then I’d have to scroll all the way back up to the top to see it.  Now, when you choose a project on the left, the view automatically scrolls back up to the top.  Like I said, it’s a very small change, but very useful.

If you’re still confused about what I mean, check out the video below or read the full post on the Nozbe blog.

Google Notebook and Jott become less useful

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Google Notebook and Jott are two of the cogs in my GTD system, and both just announced news that makes them less desireable.

Jott has just announced that they are ending their free service as of February 2.  I was considering upgrading to their paid service anyhow so I could send notes directly to Nozbe, but I hate that they’re losing the free service.  I’m torn as to whether I should pay for that service or switch to something like Dial2Do and hope that they include Nozbe support in the future.  I’m thinking I’ll pay for Jott (it’s only $4/month), but we’ll see.

The other bad news involves Google Notebook.  Google just announced that they’re closing up some services and ceasing development on some others.  They’re effectively dumping Jaiku and Dodgeball, and slowing closing out Google Video (which was a long time coming, since they own YouTube).  The official word on Google Notebook is:

Starting next week, we plan to stop active development on Google Notebook. This means we’ll no longer be adding features or offer Notebook for new users. But don’t fret, we’ll continue to maintain service for those of you who’ve already signed up. As part of this plan, however, we will no longer support the Notebook Extension, but as always users who have already signed up will continue to have access to their data via the web interface at http://www.google.com/notebook.

I’ve been trying to decide whether to stick with Google Notebook or move all of that content to Evernote.  I think that decision has just been made.