Is there any further thought on what "to do" list means? Because the sorts of features Mark listed below are, I think, available through multiple current todo list providers. (I know rememberthemilk does everything he listed, and I have difficulty believing that tadalist, from 37signals, doesn't do it as well.) I think that some of them do partial task completion in one way or another, also (voo2do lets you estimate hours required and hours completed for a task, at least. It's not a feature I've looked for so I don't know much about it.)
But the sort of integration *Jane* was talking about is, honestly, not at all the sort of feature I think of when speaking of a thing called a todo list, and probably quite particular to DW, and I can see that it would be all sorts of useful to people who are not me. (And I have much love for things that are useful to people who are not me.) But the description on the difference list didn't bring to mind "a tool to do things zvi doesn't want to do" but rather "a tool to do things already being done better in a wide variety of other places." --zvi On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I was reading the list of changes from LJ again, and I saw: An > improved > > to-do list, allowing for better task management. > > > > And I have to ask myself: why? > > The todo list as a "feature" is horribly broken as-is, which is why > it's being removed. The existing implementation is broken on so many > levels that I don't even want to look at it when talking about a > potential replacement. :) > > As to why to add a new one? Well, because I do want to see that > functionality available to users. Just as I intend to add support for > events on the calendar (invite people to your stitch-n-bitch, for > example), I think a todo list is in keeping with the ethos of the > site. > > Now, with that in mind, I've nothing against exploring other options > and seeing if they can be integrated. If someone out there has a > really good site that enables us to import/export data, provides a > bunch of value-add services (emailing you about your todo items, a > mobile interface, etc) then that would certainly save us a lot of work > and I would be interested in looking at integrating with them. >
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