The Tudumo Times

Lose Your Shirt In The Crash?

2008-11-26T08:25:00.001+02:00

If you're a programmer, no problem. If your partner is a programmer, no problem. It just so happens that well-known software personality Andy Brice moonlights as a fashion consultant and has created a range of t-shirts for programmers. Seriously - for coders, this is the haute of haute-couture.

The real win is that it's entirely for charity - all proceeds are split between two amazing groups who help with sight and prosthetics for underprivileged. If you're looking to get into the real Christmas spirit early, take a look at Andy's t-shirts for programmers page!

Start Your Own Business

2008-07-12T11:02:00.003+02:00

If you have been wanting to start your own business, do something about it today. Anything - just a plan, a few ideas, maybe write some code, a web page or a document about sales. Maybe, maybe buy a book - I say maybe because it's too easy to read about someone else's life instead of building your own, to pretend that reading is action instead of a preparation for action.

If you're not sure which of three ideas to follow up on, put your toe into the water of each, until the answer is obvious.

If you don't have the time, spend 20 minutes on it on Sunday evening.

Why? Well, because until you have a stake in the ground around which you build your dream, you can't benefit from serendipity. People won't mail you with their ideas or business proposals, you won't have a chance meeting with a like-minded person who you can collaborate with. Until you're at a particular point in space and time, the ideas that come up only when you're there...won't.

You know how time seems to move faster as you get older? Today the time is moving slower than it will. Excellent time to start something.

How I increased my productivity in under a minute

2008-05-29T08:19:00.001+02:00

I find the links toolbar in Firefox very useful. I add all my commonly-used links, grouped into folders. E.g. under "Tools" I have "application" sites like online banking. Under "News" I have Google Reader and a few news sites I like to keep up with. Under "Discuss" I have a few forums. That's not the trick, though - here's the trick:

A few days ago I moved all forum and news-type sites to a new folder...

..."Waste Time".

Seriously, it works. Now instead of unconsciously opening a news site when I'm thinking about something and blowing half an hour (that I can't afford), I'm very aware of what that folder represents! I'm treating sites in that folder far more gingerly. Every time I wander over to get a dose of news I see "Waste Time" and I slink back to doing some work!

Just seen on the David Allen Forums

2008-05-26T21:58:00.001+02:00

When you just know that their intent isn't quite GTD-related :)

Do you procrastinate? Want to know why?

2008-05-13T06:58:00.004+02:00

Just in case you weren't aware of the link between procrastination and somebody swallowing random stuff from your medicine cabinet, there's an article over at the GTD Times, the new "semi-official" GTD blog, that will reveal all!

There's also some useful reading over at www.procrastinus.com, including a definition with synonyms (shillyshally? that's a synonym?), some really interesting research on why we procrastinate and various treatments.

"Of note, most procrastinators have a wide streak of impulsiveness in them and likely are looking for the "quick fix." Unfortunately, the more powerful the remedy for procrastination, the longer it takes to work."

So my advice is:

Get a cup of coffee.
Read www.procrastinus.com.
Close your RSS reader!

Naturally, Tudumo can help as well. I'm not sure how it'll stop you swallowing random medicines but let's start with the easy stuff!

On supporting online GTD and to-do list applications

2008-04-16T10:31:00.001+02:00

Today I received a comment on my previous post asking if Tudumo should support Remember The Milk (RTM) - partly as a solution to multi-instance syncing. I thought I'd answer it here so you're more aware of my roadmap.

On the face of it, it could help the business case for Tudumo and be pretty useful for the many people who already use RTM. RTM is one of the most successful web task applications, so it wouldn't be a bad choice, if I were supporting only one app.

However, I get similar queries every so often - for Remember The Milk, BaseCamp, Google Calendar, even a project management system that a user sells! For the record, there are also calls for Palm support, Windows Mobile support, Outlook, Mac, iPhone, Lotus Notes - you get the idea. Even if I were only supporting one app it would mean differences in data between Tudumo and the target website and likely some limitation in what the API will let me do. All of that doesn't feel right to me.

I'd prefer to have a default Tudumo online service that has a focus on syncing between Tudumo instances and which can be a gateway to all the online service providers. This reduces the amount of code I need to shove into Tudumo to maintain every possible sync target. It also increases the quality of the sync between Tudumo instances because the peg and the hole are both round.

</vapourware alert>

Google App Engine excites me because it should be able to handle high-load sync with ease and should never cost me very much to keep running. That ties in nicely with my wish of providing the sync service for free and having run as well as possible. While my current server could likely handle it fine, with Google I don't have to think about "what happens if".

I could add other reasons but the vapour level is really getting to my head...

Vote for Tudumo!

2008-04-09T07:38:00.001+02:00

I received an email from a really supportive user (http://www.howtogeek.com) who pointed me at a page on Lifehacker - a vote for the best GTD app. So if you have a minute, take a look:

http://lifehacker.com/377609/best-gtd-application

In other (geeky) news, I also got one of only 10 000 Google App Engine invites so will be thinking hard about how to use infinite online power for Tudumo. Need more time, time...

1-month update

2008-04-02T17:16:00.001+02:00

I've been a bit quiet on the blog this year. If I see the blog numbers drop I feel a twinge to post something. Then I remember that this is VERY secondary to just writing code and I do that instead. So I take pride in my useless posting frequency!

Tudumo did nicely during the first "live" month. It was very evident was that people generally took advantage of the earlybird special - as soon as it finished the orders went much quieter! That's cool - people are obviously using the full 60-day trial period and the downloads certainly haven't slowed.

To all of you who stuck it through the beta and have decided Tudumo is the app for you - thank you for the support. My job will be to make sure you get more than you paid for. If you're still deciding - that's great - exactly why I made the trial so long. I want you to be happy with it when you do buy.

To those that have spread the word some - huge thanks. I definitely notice it when links start coming in from somewhere new!

Note - there's a new version up. Smallish changes but quite a few of them and a couple are pretty important. The next should be in a week or two. In about a month I'll start on adding a few bigger features.

Happy birthday Tudumo!

2008-03-03T09:54:00.002+02:00

1) This weekend, Tudumo hit 400 links on del.icio.us!
2) The 1.0 version is ready and
3) yesterday, Lynton Auld became the first person to change from "user" to "customer" by sending an order through for Tudumo.

So today is kinda Tudumo's birthday. My birthday's on the 20th of March. So you get a discount on Tudumo until then - $19.95 instead of $29.95 - approximately 33% off. (update - discount period finished!)

Note that this isn't "it" - I'll continue to provide regular updates, and there are a couple of things I'll do in the next two weeks. I just wanted to get the show on the road and fix one or two things that needed an update now.

Put the past behind you

2008-02-03T17:07:00.001+02:00

In South Africa we have our most significant vacation over December. The only snow we have is fake, on Christmas trees, inside the house or in malls. Our vacations consist of going to the beach in Cape Town or visiting the Kruger nature reserve. Hats, short pants sunscreen - that kinda thing.

In my case the vacation was spent in an retirement village (don't ask) in the hills, coding away into the night, working on improving Tudumo performance. I returned home and mailed out the app to some users who are kind enough to help me test releases, and immediately realised that actually there was one more, much tougher, task that I'd been putting off for many months. Dang. So it was back to the rework.

To cut a long story short, the last couple of updates should have been significantly faster and more reactive to user input. If you have a lot of data, Tudumo should fly compared to how it was working in the past.

Today there's another update with various changes and a couple of new features. The one I hope makes Tudumo a better tool is the archive. If enabled, the auto-archive will start on load and move all items older than a specified age to your /Archive directory, saving them to CSV files, one file per month. You can load the CSV files in Excel or anything that reads text, so you always have your old data as reference and can chop it up, merge it or graph it in a tool far better than I could build. As a side benefit, this lets you keep your Tudumo data nice and clean.

For a look at the rest of the changes, wander over to the Tudumo changelog.

Improve your effectiveness with a closed list

2008-01-03T12:24:00.001+02:00

Effectiveness is the capability of producing an effect. So to measure effectiveness, we first need to identify the desired effect. The closed list, identified by Mark Forster, can go a long way to helping us with this.

Many forces reduce our effectiveness.

New actions fly at us from every direction. An excellent rule such as "capture everything" means that we note down every possible thing we might want to do. That's very useful for not losing (and re-remembering) stuff, but it does result in an increasing task list.
Other people seem entirely committed to continually challenging our ability to get our inbox to empty.
And then as if we have nothing better to do, once a year we leverage our inebriated state to generate excellent New Year's resolutions!

But luckily we have some inbuilt advantages.

A feature of human intelligence is the ability to delay the response to an external event. This has the excellent effect of automatically making our actions more considered - we don't just react, we plan and can then choose the best course of action.
We learn. Or rather - we have the capability to learn, not always used!

I believe both of these features are embodied in the concept of the closed list, described in the book Do It Tomorrow.

Create a list for tomorrow, with all the actions you'd like to complete, and that you think you can complete in that day. If a new request comes in, or you think of something to do - do not do it. Put it on the list for tomorrow. Today's list is closed. Complete it.

Why? Well, doing this has the immediate effect of staying focused on the task(s) at hand, or the effect that we would like to produce. We become more effective. And we can select that effect the previous day, when we're clear-minded about what would really make our day a success.

But there's another benefit - we improve our capability to judge what we can take on in a given day. Once we identify what we can do, we get a better idea of ourselves. We learn.

For extra marks, we can build into our desired effect an increased ability to improve that. We can target specific growth. Today I did 5 things. Tomorrow I want to do 6. You can turn it into a bit of a game - push yourself and see if you can add a few more, etc. This can help us stay motivated.

In addition, you get a sense of completing your work for the day, instead of a never-ending stream of next actions.

How I do this [1] with Tudumo - I add a "tomorrow" tag to the given set of actions. I therefore get the GTD benefit of being able to identify my next actions for a given project, and the Do It Tomorrow ability to identify and complete a set of actions.

And, another excellent resource - if you've never seen David Seah's "The Printable CEO" give it a read - it dovetails pretty nicely and has a point-scoring system for measuring effectiveness.

[1] Um - quick note. I sometimes do this! I prefer driving techniques rather than being driven by them. Some days I'm a black-belt useless creature, other days the actions fly on the wings of angels and mere lists serve only to get in the way, and on other days I need something like this technique to keep me on the straight and narrow. But try it for a few days before you decide.

A gaggle of Tudumo tips

2007-12-21T11:34:00.001+02:00

I'd love to send out an update, but I'm working on improving performance and that always needs to be tested properly! I'm sure there'll be a Christmas Edition, so hang in there...

But that doesn't stop me updating the blog. And every so often I get a mail that reminds me that you guys have better things to do than pore over the help file. So for your casual perusal, I have here a few most-important-to-me tips:

The spacebar.

Hitting the spacebar toggles the view of the selected action or heading. So expands an action, or focus/unfocus a heading.

That's great if you quickly want to peek into an action and don't want to click on the fairly fiddly arrow on the right. (Which is there to reduce clutter on the left, but is a bit fiddly, let's face it. So use space!)
Ctrl-t.

If you have an action selected and you hit ctrl-t Tudumo will open the tag editor. I use tags extensively and if there was one feature I couldn't do without, tags would be it.

Possibly my most-used sequence:
- (Usually) in the Inbox, hit ctrl-n to add a new action, and type the label.
- Ctrl-t to edit the tag. Type a ta...(hopefully autocompleted) and hit enter.
- Hit F5 to refresh the screen.

<Boom> in a couple seconds I've added an action, tagged it and hidden it.
(So imagine that in a tree view? Wandering around, clicking here and there, ctrl-n, do something...make tea, etc.)
Hitting ctrl-f to find stuff.

The search starts off filtering your current view, so acts as one of the normal filters. If you keep typing, the search will expand to look at all actions and "pop" you out of the filter set you have.
Ctrl-left and ctrl-right.

This is a great trick. Ctrl-left and right move the tag filter to the previous/next tag.

So you can e.g. hit ctrl-f to search, type something to reduce the amount of actions, and then use ctrl-left or right to navigate to items in another tag but keeping the search filter intact.
And, y'know...the Tudumo visibility toggle key thingy...

Which, depending on the version of Tudumo and/or Windows, and the phase of the moon, is either Win-T or now Win-Alt-T. In any case, this toggles the visibility of Tudumo so you can bring it up and hide it in one easy movement.

So there you have it. With a few hours of wax-on-wax-off practice you could easily master these keys so that we could wake you up at 2am and you'd be able to toggle views without thinking, bringing new meaning to the term Watery Mind (tm)...uh...mindful water...water on the mind?

...you know what I mean.

And I'm sure that you have other funky tricks or sequences that you use - please add them in the comments!

(And keep a lookout for a new version - will post here.)

A tipping point

2007-11-13T09:14:00.001+02:00

The last week has been pretty insane. Good insane :)

The first sign was one or two extra support queries, and then a mail from one of the long-time Tudumo users with a heads-up about an article from a Very Big Website.

As it turns out, our little gtd software was featured on a blog, The How-To Geek, who has over 30k readers. That's huge. Also, check out the review - very nicely written and he goes to a lot of effort with screenshots and explanations.

Then, within no time at all, Tudumo ended up on Lifehacker! Their scale is nuts. They have half a million web visits a day, and around 300k subscribers.

That pushed Tudumo into the del.iciou.us "popular" section, which resulted in more traffic than it was getting from Lifehacker. Also, a couple of download sites (one with 21 million visitors a month) linked to Tudumo and so did the Yahoo directory. Normally, you have to pay 300 bucks a year to get into Yahoo! And, if you're interested in web/seo etc, all the attention should do some nice things for PageRank.

So, there were two days of 1000+ downloads a day, tons of visitors, quite a bit of user feedback, and hopefully some improved positioning in Google. None of it actually my doing, which is the amazing thing about how the web works.

I guess my job is just to keep at the bugs and features, so I'll get back to that!

What's in a name?

2007-10-25T07:06:00.000+02:00

If you've been reading this blog since the beginning (thanks, honey) you'll know that Tudumo wasn't always Tudumo. It had a name that was very obviously wrong - partly to force myself to come up with a better one!

When a cute name did strike me, I discovered that Todomo was taken. Naturally. So Tudumo was born.

But looking at how people writing into the Google Group spell it, and looking at search terms that people use to find it, I've discovered that what I thought was a cute name has a curious side-effect. I get things like:

Todomo
Tudomo (the most often!)
Tumodo
www.tudum.com
www.tucumo.com
(Update - also found tomodo and tudmo...)

So I guess you just can't win! What I do find is interesting is that while I rate okay for "gtd windows" and "windows gtd", and okay for "gtd software" on Google, most people finding Tudumo are searching for...Tudumo. I have to assume that they know where the Tudumo website is, so it's possible that people are either in the habit of Googling even for names they know well, or word-of-mouth is doing it's thing. The latter would be great! Another useful effect is that pages that link to Tudumo sometimes mis-spell the name, so searchers benefit from the same mis-spelling.

Okay, enough rambling. Some features...

Tudumo now has a quick-entry window. If you have the latest update and have Tudumo running in the background, use ctrl-win-t and it'll popup the window. Any items (one per line) will be added to the Tudumo list, chop-chop. I haven't done any clever text parsing but we'll see how it goes. Since it's the first version of that feature, there will likely be changes.

There are also a couple of printing improvements - you can set the margins under the Page Setup. And the usual bugfixes!

The Last Install

2007-09-20T21:13:00.000+02:00

Quick quick quick quick! Get onto the new version of Tudumo.

Because it does automatic updates. Because it auto-saves your data. Because it has bugfixes.

It also saves the document in the My Documents folder, finally becoming a good citizen and making Vista a bit happier. And if you install Tudumo on a memorystick the settings will go with you.

But the main reason is the first one - you'll get automatic updates.
From now on, no more fiddling with the Control Panel to get a new version. Get a beer, sit back, and click "Upgrade".

Well, except this one last time - uninstall the previous version and get an improved to-do list!

Note that if you are behind a firewall or web proxy, you'll need to set up the connection settings in Tudumo options.

Give us features or give us death

2007-09-14T17:16:00.000+02:00

One would think someone who was creating a todo list was an expert at clearing it out. One would be wrong!

The problem with my life is that now I have many more people able to add to my set of actions than are actioning them! Pretty much anyone with an internet connection. Luckily there's some concept of negotiation, but even that takes time. Still, what a great problem - far better than putting out features nobody wants!

So far, the best solution has been to serve one or two major features per update, topped with a sprinkling of bugfixes and minor features. For this update there isn't one big feature, but there are a lot of small ones that'll make your life easier.

Examples:
Filter on completed items
NOT tag filter (so exclude a clicked tag from the list)
Minor look and feel improvements
Delete all actions with a tag
Remove a tag from all actions
Quite a few hotkey improvements, so check the keys section of the help file! My current favourite is ctrl-up and down, which moves between headings, even when you're focused on one.

After that last sentence, I think I need a drink. Favourite hotkey, sheesh.

So head off to Tudumo and click on the "download" link.

One step back, two steps forward

2007-09-04T08:26:00.000+02:00

Many moments in life are fantastic and it's wonderful to sit there and bask in the memory of them. Other moments less so - you've done something dumb and you'd love, just love, to get the chance to try again.

Tudumo now comes with that. Yup, LifeRedo(tm). We'll start off by letting you undo dumb things like deleting your actions or moving them somewhere silly, and as the research budget expands we'll work on un-crashing your car and un-insulting that policeman.

Tudumo also prints a lot better than it did before, so be sure to try that out. And there's an option to minimize actions when you move off them. That is less funky than LifeRedo(tm) but some people want it...

In short, Version x.3.73 is out and you need it today!

The perfect GTD tool, isn't

2007-08-31T10:00:00.000+02:00

Time and again, I see the same question coming up on GTD-oriented lists - people have hundreds of actions, or a few projects are exceptionally complex. Their current tool either doesn't support that, or they have squished the project into whatever they're using.

I think this is the problem - there are two jobs that you want the system to do:

1) Represent your problem accurately.
2) Show you what you need to do, when you need to do it.

The first requirement means that some people would like to indicate which projects are dependent on other projects. Other people would like to have projects and sub-projects 6 levels deep. Others have many linked documents, team members, many old projects they want to show the history for. The list really, really does go on.

The second requirement is the action bit - you need to waste as little time as possible, be as effective as possible. Here, you don't want to dig around looking through many projects and folders and documents. You want to get the next job, do it, move on, change contexts, check list, choose action, do it.

Big difference.

Now, lets look at the tools that David Allen uses. (Note that these are the ones I've picked up - he might have others, but I'm pretty sure the principle will apply.)
a) A Palm.
b) MS Word (for Outlining)
c) MindManager

I'm pretty sure that the Palm is perfect for requirement 2. Fast, simple, gets him to his data really well. He hasn't changed that tool in years. This is the guy who created GTD and he's using a set of simple lists.

And for him, MS Word and MindManager are the easiest, most free-flowing apps to structure his thoughts and plans. The Palm isn't able to represent every action and project in his business, and MS Word just isn't slick enough to use as his "runway" application.

So the take-home for me is that the perfect application for GTD isn't one application, it's two (or three). It's also not important to focus on the application and force your data into it, it's important to focus on what you need to do, and use an application that fits your style for that task.
So I'd suggest that you think a bit about what you're using the tools for - mapping a complex problem, or doing your daily work, or sharing information within a team - and you find the best tools for each of those jobs. If they're the same, great. But don't "need" them to be.

A real benefit to doing that is that you break the dependency on one application. You can choose the absolute best app for managing projects for one job, and the absolute best tool for zooming through your actions and showing you what is in a given context. Change either - and the decision doesn't affect the other application.

Next, I'd suggest you set some time aside once a week to pull the information from your big, complex MS Project file and put it into your runway tool. Use this time to think, sift and aim correctly, because when it's time to fire you want to have done all of the planning and thinking. Now just action, without navigating reams of trees and maps.

Where does Tudumo play? On the action side. You can put a lot of your data into it, but it's not trying to compete with MS Project. And trying to would dilute what Tudumo does best.

XML import/export update

2007-08-22T09:05:00.000+02:00

Very very dry topic :)

In my last post, I spoke about working with other GTD developers to build an interoperability format. That'll mean that you'll be able to take your data with you when you move between applications/operating systems/websites.

I've created a Google Group and now there is a bunch of us GTD application developers discussing the issues. No promises on when/where, but it's quite refreshing to have a bunch of us working together for a common purpose and with all of our users able to benefit!

So worry not, it will go somewhere. Frankly, I think it would be hard to stop...I'd better keep up! I also suspect this won't be the last useful thing to come out of the collaboration.

GTDWannabe's list...and User's Bill of Rights item #1

2007-08-16T07:41:00.001+02:00

GTDWannabe (almost) completes her online GTD app reviews in this story. Wander over there if you're keen to find any apps that suit you way of working.

During one of the mini-reviews, she mentions this:

"In fact, I actually spent a couple of hours bringing all of my next actions in, and used it for a couple of weeks."

That is something I think should be solved. I'm all for importing your actions into Tudumo but I'd like to know what to import from. My thinking has been to get together with the other GTD application makers and decide on a common standard. This would mean you could import your data, try Tudumo out, export it again, try another application out.

In fact, I think it's so important that it's part of my Users Bill of Rights:
"The user has the right to own their data."

What that means is that application creators don't try to lock users in by restricting how they can get at their own data. That was used as a technique for competition in the Bad Old Days, but now the user is king (and queen) and we should be working to make their (your) lives easier. As a user, I'd like to import/export my data. As a developer, I want you using the tool you want to use!

So, if you know any GTD app creators and they're keen to collaborate on this, get them to mail me on richard (at) tudumo.com and I'll add them to the group. My thoughts are to create an XML file in an agreed-upon standard that can be shared, or to agree that e.g. we'll export/import from the ical format.

If this post doesn't get traction I'll follow up with a few myself and see how it goes. I don't promise that I'll do it immediately, but I will.

The rise of Firefox

2007-08-12T10:42:00.000+02:00

This post is mostly aimed at those of you with a general interest in tech, and those with your own websites.

Most of the visitors I have are Firefox users. 64% for the last week, and that's typical - often up to 75%. The total number of web users are certainly not, but it seems logical in hindsight:

The average user likely buys their software shrink-wrapped or it arrives with the computer. They use the browser that came with the operating system and they've heard that viruses get onto your computer from downloading software.

The type of people who end up looking at this site seem to be early adopters. They know where to look for software and know a dodgy setup when the see one. They decide which browser to use.

Brief story:

A long time ago, in a galaxy with terrible connectivity, I used to work for an ISP. We had to test anything that was web-oriented in IE 2 and 3, and in Netscape 2 and 3. (Yeah, that long ago!) Some things would break in Netscape, and others in IE.

For the last few years that problem has been reduced because Internet Explorer has had such significant market share that many web developers didn't have to worry about the weirdos using Netscape or Opera.

But those days are back. Firefox is doing okay worldwide, and in some countries it's doing really well. Funnily enough, the U.S. Firefox use isn't one of the highest but in the case of Tudumo visitors it's as high or higher. Again, early adopters.

So the take-home here is: if you have a website that plays in the realm of technology or forward-thinkers, don't just test under the default browser, test for the early adopters. Not only are those the people most likely to be using best-of-breed software, they're more likely to be receptive to using your best-of-breed software or reading your bleeding-edge news. Again, if Tudumo's website did silly things in Firefox, I'd be irritating two out of every three people that looked at it. That's huge.

With all of that, the Tudumo website needs a good whipping! But at least it works on Firefox. Unlike my banks' online "offering", which is more like a burnt offering than a way to increase the confidence of their users.

Woo. Heatmaps.

2007-08-06T11:21:00.000+02:00

Tudumo is slowly emerging from infancy! Tuday Tudumo Turned 0.6.2.55, which is really getting along. With that kinda age, you get features like:

Start date. You don't have to set a due date for a message to pop up anymore, you can ensure an action will stay on hold until you're ready for it, just like a GTD tickler.
Heatmap showing the staleness of an action. If you don't change an action for a week or so, it'll start fading away.
Sorting - now you can sort on age, last changed date, due date, tags and the default.
Better memory and processor performance.

Get all this now, no money down (we're still in beta, after all!)

Update on the non-update

2007-07-21T03:27:00.000+02:00

Just because it's quiet, it doesn't mean nothing is going on...

My main reason for a beta is to see what's going right, and what needs work. I've been pretty overwhelmed by the general response - lots of people saying great things and also enough work to keep me happily occupied until...oh, about 2070!

A few changes are in the pipeline - improved sorting, significantly better memory management, some improved date handling (including start date as a GTD tickler), hopefully some newer icons and a couple of minor tweaks. All driven by user feedback.

I won't release just yet but it'll be a better application when I do, and more and more it's becoming your application.

Find your stuff!

2007-07-09T18:25:00.000+02:00

Initially I wasn't terribly excited about searching. I never needed it and I figured a GTD app should have few enough actions that you shouldn't need to search.

Then I started working on the feature. In a similar way to adding tagging to Tudumo I was surprised with how useful it was, and what can be done with it. So, today if you update your Tudumo to the latest version, you'll be able to search!

And it'll be faster, and it'll filter tags that aren't in your current view, and when you come out of filtering a heading it'll be more intelligent. Shift-clicking will now do an 'and' search with two or more tags. You can change fonts. And some bugs were chased out of town, most importantly!

As usual, either use the help/update menu, or go to the tudumo website and download the latest version.

A milestone

2007-07-08T22:40:00.000+02:00

I check various stats and online avenues every week to see how Tudumo is doing "out there". Today, Tudumo got to the first page for "gtd windows" on Google, which is very cool :) It might not stay there and it's also not the biggest search term, but it's an improvement and that's all I care about!

More important to you - Tudumo is ready for another version. I want to test it a bit before I update the server but it has some nice changes. Not out-there stuff, but it does include a very cool search feature, some significant speed improvements, and a few usability tweaks people were asking for.

So, probably tomorrow...or Tuesday if it needs anything fixed.