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March 1, 2011 | 7 Comments
We have a small update today, you can now preview your Evernote thumbnails right from your account:
Evernote Thumbnails
If you missed our previous post, this is how you can view your Evernote notebooks in Get It Done
Hope you enjoy, if you have any issues let us know!
February 23, 2011 | 8 Comments
We have 2 new features we would like to show off today.
Task counts in the web app
If you are using a modern web browser like Google Chrome, Apple Safari, or Firefox, you will notice you can get a quick view of your task counts next to each focus. We added this in the mobile apps already and it finally made it into the web app. The green box is the number of tasks and the red is the number of overdue tasks:
task counts
Evernote Integration
For those Evernote users out there, we have had many requests to have Get It Done import your Evernote notebooks into the app. If you don’t know what Evernote is, it is a popular app which makes it easy for you to collect notes and files.
If you are an Evernote user we make it quick and easy to view your evernotes in Get It Done.
To enable Evernote go into your settings in Get It Done and click plugins and click ‘Enable Evernote integration’:
Enable Evernote
You should now see ‘Login to Evernote’ and a new category ‘Evernote Notebooks’
Evernote Login
When you click this you will need to login to Evernote so that we can access your information:
Login to Evernote
After you do this you will need see your notebooks under the ‘Evernote Notebooks’ category along with your projects and focuses:
Evernote Notebooks
When you click on one of your notebooks you will see all of the notes in that particular notebook. If you taged any of the notes in the Evernote application you can filter the notes by clicking on the tab at the top of the page :
Evernote Notes
Finally when you click on a particular note you will see it in Get It Done:
Evernote Note
And that’s it. This is our initial push for Evernote integration, we want to see how people use this feature so we can plan a deeper integration with this and other apps.
Hope you enjoy!
February 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
Android version 3.0.5 released today. The big feature is ‘Native Scrolling’. For some Android devices scrolling can be a little slow, for those people we introduced better ‘Native’ scrolling feature. We also tapped into the Android Menu and Back buttons, this should make for a better all around Android experience. There is also stability and speed improvements across all mobile apps.
As always Android in the market today, iPhone/iPad will be a few days while we wait for Apple to approve the app.
Change log
Version 3.0.5
Mobile Apps
Web App
January 28, 2011 | 3 Comments
I wanted to share an email I sent today to someone who was asking how to use Get It Done for their particular case. Many of you might find it useful:
Mike,
I need help in determining how to best use the app. I have numerous tasks and projects. From the Allen book, I was thinking about the follow categories: Two broad categories for Professional and Personal. Within these two domains, structure the following areas…Computer work; Telephone Calls; Errands; Office; Someday; Reference; Delegated; Waiting For
I have numerous complex projects for which I am responsible, including dissertations, research projects, manuscripts, and other administrative responsibilities. I am trying to organize my emails in the same fashion that I will set up my system in Getitdone. Help!
In your case I would do the following, I will start with the most broad category and then move down from there:
Create 2 ‘Areas of Responsibility’. Areas are the broadest category and when you are in a particular Area you will only see tasks and projects pertaining to the particular Area.
http://getitdoneapp.com/blog/areas-of-responsibility/
Within each Area you can further separate your tasks into projects. Projects are a group of tasks that need to get done to accomplish a particular goal:
http://getitdoneapp.com/blog/how-to-manage-projects/
Some projects in ‘Work’ Area might be:
Some projects in ‘Home’ Area might be:
Projects are set up so that each individual Project will have its own Inbox, Today, Next, and Someday folders. This is done automatically. To learn about these focuses:
http://getitdoneapp.com/blog/how-to-use-get-it-done-to-get-organized/
If you are ‘Waiting for’ or ‘Delegating’ tasks to someone else you should set up different People. I set up People with the following names:
http://getitdoneapp.com/blog/sharing-tasks-with-people/
If that particular person has a Get It Done account they will see the task in their Inbox, if they do not have an account it is a general bucket for your own records. If you enter an email address they will be sent a message asking to join Get It Done.
Tags are an even finer way you can organize your tasks. A few ways you might use tags:
Tags are very flexible and might be different for each project.
I think this is a good starting point for you. The system is very easy to use once you dive into it. You should probably start setting up the app in a fashion similar to this and if you have any questions let me know.
January 25, 2011 | 10 Comments
We have a minor bug fix build today for you today. Android is in the market and we are still waiting on 3.0.3 to be approved by Apple, hopefully you will see it in the App Store in the next few days.
We have been hard at work on a bigger update to the mobile apps to improve speed (especially scrolling) and to bring more of the Web App features to the mobile versions, stay tuned!
Change Log
Version 3.0.4
Mobile App
Web app
