{"id":364,"date":"2008-05-08T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=364"},"modified":"2008-05-08T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T03:24:00","slug":"364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Mind Traffic Control<\/a> roll-out continues. <\/p>\n

Nothing spectacular in terms of numbers, but friends are making interesting comments and suggestions; and some strangers are discovering it via the Twitter announcement.<\/p>\n

Eikeon<\/a> pointed to twemes as a place to search for the #tag #MTC<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Good chat with Folknology<\/a>. He’s encouraging me to open up the data. Hence I did CSV export<\/a> of your tasks. Al, likes RSS\/Atom but I still need to find out whether feed-readers can do the required Google login to get at a non-public feed.<\/p>\n

Rup3rt weighed in with a number of comments starting :<\/p>\n

Wow an invisible list machine almost like a gumball\/toy dispenser …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and continuing <\/p>\n

I like to see what is ahead but it is good with the delegation – I can line up things for the estagiarios. This is great for non-negotiables like driving instructions, recipes.<\/p>\n

* The font for “This task was delegated to you .. may report the sender for blacklisting and delete this task” is a bit big<\/p>\n

* I would like a difficult autoaddress (1gg23ff3d3reedd@mindtrafficcontrol.appspot.com) to delegate tasks by email and maybe I could get other tasklists to feed into MTC using this (to just top it up with priority1 or todotoday tasks)<\/p>\n

* Maybe paste a list of (line break delimited) tasks that are automatically added<\/p>\n

* Maybe show in a widget<\/p>\n

* Maybe show total number of tasks<\/p>\n

* How would time estimates of task duration fit in? It could be a diversion to see “You have 13 hours of traffic to negotiate”)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good suggestions. I’ll be interested to know what everyone else thinks. <\/p>\n

But here are some initial thoughts :<\/p>\n

Font issue, yep. Mailing tasks in<\/em> to Mind Traffic Control would be great; a very useful addition. But I’m not yet sure I can do it on the Google Application Engine. <\/p>\n

I might be able to do it using another hosting service but that’s introducing a lot of new complexity into the system : running two different hosting services, writing scripts on the old-skool one to pass emails it receives into MTC in some way, being responsible for security (how do I stop spammers mailing tasks to you via the system?) etc. Going to take a while to figure that one out.<\/p>\n

Importing other formats and \/ or entering multi-line, multi-task lists is easier and more likely to appear soon. I’ll definitely go for the multi-line input box in the short-term future. I’d be interested to hear what formats readers currently use for to-do lists so that I can import them. I immediately think OPML, of course. But are there others?<\/p>\n

Widgets … actually I’ve been playing with OpenSocial and Orkut Widgets for my other<\/em> GAE project. It’s cute … but I’m not yet sure what I’d put in a MTC widget.<\/p>\n

Task counts and time estimates I’m ambivalent on. I don’t want to make MTC a paranoia inducing space where you arrive on the front page to be presented with something saying “Welcome to Mind Traffic Control. You have 280 outstanding tasks”. On the other hand, I see that people would like some sort of overall measure of what they have to do. More thinking on this.<\/p>\n

Finally, there’s a couple of issues of “philosophy”, particularly why I’m resistant to letting you flag tasks with “priorities” but leaving that for the next post when I’ll be more coherent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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