tweeto http://www.tweeto.com/blog tweeto blog. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:34:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Maintenance http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/06/07/maintenance/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/06/07/maintenance/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:50:05 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/06/07/maintenance/ We will be doing some upgrades and general maintenance to the site this morning at around 12pm (BST). We don’t expect too much downtime (only 5-10 mins) but just wanted to keep everybody posted.

The updates made today will make future expansion of the service easier and aids us in producing a public API (more on that another time).

Update: All updates have been installed without issue and we suffered only a minute or two downtime during the process.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/06/07/maintenance/feed/ How-to: Track your tasks in Firefox http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/12/how-to-track-your-tasks-in-firefox/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/12/how-to-track-your-tasks-in-firefox/#comments Sat, 12 May 2007 16:47:27 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/12/how-to-track-your-tasks-in-firefox/ You can track your tasks in Firefox using live bookmarks. This allows you to always have your task list at the tip of your fingers and complete any tasks with a click of the mouse. To create the live bookmark you need to do the following:

1) After logging into your tweeto account click on the RSS icon on the right hand menu or in the browsers address bar.

location of rss icon.



2) On the new page that is shown select “Live Bookmark” from the drop down list.

selecting live bookmarks in firefox.



3) Save the bookmark to your bookmark menu or toolbar.

4) You will now have a live feed of your active tasks in your browser. To complete a task just click on it!

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/12/how-to-track-your-tasks-in-firefox/feed/ How-to: Edit tasks http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/11/how-to-edit-tasks/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/11/how-to-edit-tasks/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 18:38:08 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/11/how-to-edit-tasks/ Editing your tasks with tweeto couldn’t be simpler. If you have javascript enabled in your browser just double click on the task you wish to edit and then make any changes in the form at the top of the page. For the degraded non-javascript version you just have to click on the task once and the edit form will open on a new page.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/11/how-to-edit-tasks/feed/ How-to: Manage your tasks priority http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/10/how-to-manage-your-tasks-priority/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/10/how-to-manage-your-tasks-priority/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 10:20:26 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/10/how-to-manage-your-tasks-priority/ There is no specific way to manage task priorities with tweeto, but we do have other features that let you create your own system to manage priorities - which gives you more control and you can do it the way that works best for you!

Method 1 - Colored Labels
The first method is to create your own color system to identify priority and then use the colored labels to mark your tasks. E.g.

Red = Urgent
Yellow = Can be rescheduled
Green = No deadline

colored labels on tasks to show priority

Method 2 - Tags
The second method is to simply tag your tasks with a priority. This has the added benefit over the first method of being able to filter your tasks by individual tags.

You could then also use a mixture of both methods to create a more detailed system, but the real benefit of this is that you can create your own system to match your own work flows and so tweeto won’t get in your way as much as many other task managers that force you to work in a certain way.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/10/how-to-manage-your-tasks-priority/feed/ Email Task List http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/09/email-task-list/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/09/email-task-list/#comments Wed, 09 May 2007 16:29:37 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/09/email-task-list/ We have justed launched the first of our email features!

This new feature allows you to email your task list, or a filtered version of it, to yourself or anybody with an email address. We have been using it internally to send each other lists of things to do and are finding it incredible useful for managing our projects and clients requests.

You can access the new feature by clicking on the little email icon on the right menu and the form will appear for you to provide the email address and intro message.

Let us know what you think and how you use the feature.

Enjoy!

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/09/email-task-list/feed/ How-to: Set a deadline date http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/09/how-to-set-a-deadline-date/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/09/how-to-set-a-deadline-date/#comments Wed, 09 May 2007 14:18:51 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/09/how-to-set-a-deadline-date/ To keep the tweeto interface simple and uncluttered we actively decided to keep the input fields to an absolute minimum and not just add more fields for the sake of something only 5% of our users might use. One of these features that few people use is a deadline or due date, but despite this we still get emails asking us to add the field. To all these people we offer the following solution:

When adding a task set the deadline date as a tag. This will then allow you to quickly sort your tasks by due date and you can use your own wording/formatting.

With Deadline Date
Adding a task with a deadline.

Deadline Date Tags
The deadline tags.

Because tags can contain anything that you like you can easily make up your own system for managing your deadline to suit your needs and is far more customizable than a specific field for a due date.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/09/how-to-set-a-deadline-date/feed/ How-to Series http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/08/how-to-series/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/08/how-to-series/#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 12:04:24 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/08/how-to-series/ We get a lot of emails and feedback from people asking us to add a certain feature or functionality to tweeto which can already be implemented in the current system. To try and answer these questions and show just how much you can do with tweeto we have decided to create a how-to series outlining some tips and tricks on how tweeto can be used for more advanced purposes.

We will post a new how-to every few days and we encourage you to check back often to see what new tips and tricks we’ve got to offer. If you haven’t already you can subscribe to our RSS feed here.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/08/how-to-series/feed/ Working on Email Feature http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/07/working-on-email-feature/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/07/working-on-email-feature/#comments Mon, 07 May 2007 13:55:39 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/07/working-on-email-feature/ Hey folks, just a quick update to tell you all that we are currently working on some new email features for tweeto so that you can send and receive tasks over email. We will try to roll out the features as they are completed and are so far looking to add the following features:

- Ability to email your task list to yourself or a friend.
- Setup an automatic daily email to send you your uncompleted tasks
- Ability to enter tasks via an email

With these new features we will be working on an API so that we (and you) can develop more applications that use tweeto for storage, and we also hope this will make tweeto more useful as it will be accessible in multiple ways.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/07/working-on-email-feature/feed/ Unexpected Downtime http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/05/unexpected-downtime/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/05/unexpected-downtime/#comments Sat, 05 May 2007 20:25:08 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/05/unexpected-downtime/ At around 7:30 (BST - GMT+1) we experienced an error with our server that caused the site to go offline. The problem was with a corrupt database and has since been fixed. The server was down for around 2 hours before we managed to fix the issue and test, before launching the normal services again.

The following is a time line of the events:

7:30pm - Database becomes corrupt and crashes MySQL server.
7:45pm - We are notified via SMS that the tweeto.com site is not working
7:55pm - We asses the problem and create a holding page to explain the downtime
8:00pm - We launch the holding page to explain to users that the site is down and we are working to fix it.
8:30pm - We found the cause of the problem and begin to fix it
9:05pm - The problem is fixed and we begin to test the services and bring them back online.
9:15pm - All services have been restored and tweeto.com is working again fully.

We are sorry for any problems this might have caused to anybody and will be looking into how we can further prevent any issues like this in the future.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/05/unexpected-downtime/feed/ Drag and Drop Ordering http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/04/drag-and-drop-ordering/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/04/drag-and-drop-ordering/#comments Fri, 04 May 2007 10:59:43 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/04/drag-and-drop-ordering/ Hello all!

We have just added the new drag and drop ordering feature to tweeto. This means that you can now easily arrange your task list however you want simply by selecting the task and dragging it to the new position. As always we have tried to keep the design for it nice and clean so that things don’t get cluttered or confusing for new members. Go give it a whirl on your account now, or if you haven’t yet join you can do so here, it’s 100% free and only takes 30 seconds.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/05/04/drag-and-drop-ordering/feed/ Vote For Us http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/20/vote-for-us/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/20/vote-for-us/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:06:46 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/20/vote-for-us/ We submitted ourselves for the startup 2.0 competition which is trying to find the best startups using “web 2.0″ technology within a European country. Please spend two minutes to vote for us here.

Update: You need to quickly register in order to vote…but it still only takes 30 seconds, so please don’t let that put you off.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/20/vote-for-us/feed/ Features Page http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/20/features-page/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/20/features-page/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:58:46 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/20/features-page/ We have been so busy working on the tweeto application itself that we hadn’t previously done much to the rest of the site to explain what tweeto is, what features it has and how you can use it to be productive.

Released yesterday was a new release to the site that added some more details of tweeto’s features and its uses. We plan to add more pages like this in the future to outline how people use tweeto and how you can use it for GTD, simple todo lists, shopping lists, call sheets, manage projects etc.

If you would like to share how you personally use tweeto then we would love to hear from you and display your story on the site.

View the features page here.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/20/features-page/feed/ Print Your Tasks http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/17/print-your-tasks/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/17/print-your-tasks/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:51:19 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/17/print-your-tasks/ We have just added some basic print style sheets to tweeto that will now allow users to print off a copy of their task list and take it with them to meetings, appointments or even the supermarket. Ensuring that you don’t forget anything important.

Enjoy!

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/17/print-your-tasks/feed/ Few Updates http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/15/few-updates/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/15/few-updates/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:57:36 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/15/few-updates/ We have just uploaded a few bug fixes and a few little changes to the site. Most changes will not be noticed by users as they only fix issues that were rare and caused by a certain combination of actions.

Two things that people will notice however are:

1) We have now added a “Tip” section to the right hand side which provides you with a few tips and tricks and should help new users unleash the power of tweeto.

2) We have added filtered RSS feeds so that you can subscribe to a filtered version of your tasks instead of just the full task list.

]]> http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/15/few-updates/feed/ Edit Tasks http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/15/edit-tasks/ http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/15/edit-tasks/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:48:36 +0000 Jacob Wyke http://www.tweeto.com/blog/2007/04/15/edit-tasks/ With the new updates added yesterday cam the ability for you to edit your tasks by simply double clicking on the task name, making any changes and then hitting save. As with all the features within tweeto it works with and without a connection to the internet and sync’s any changes to the server when you reconnect.

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