I started this while looking for a way to help remote teams run stand up meetings but it turns out what stand ups offered wasn't easy to capture in an app.
Instead, it turns out it was much better to build something that helps people get a day-to-day view of their company and help individuals fight their distraction, be accountable and stay productive -- which is essentially what stand ups aims to do (among other things). To do this, I built a (well received) Chrome extension that helps you stay focused on your priority tasks - which automatically syncs your progress with your team: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dayboard-new-tab-p...
For those interested in the backstory, you can learn more about this from our feature on Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com/dayboard-uses-chromes-new-tab-page-to-...) and ProductHunt (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/dayboard)
I'll be continuing development on this so expect to see new features and improvements.
Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Also happy to answer any questions!
I started building something slightly similar (http://i.imgur.com/hzEJgvK.png) as I wanted a simple to-do list that I could access from anywhere and was completely idiot proof (drag drop tasks etc) unfortunately I never got past the PoC as I'm simply too busy but I will get back to it, It had promise and was a nice itch to scratch.
Nicely done :)
btw, I like where you were going with your timer. I've had similar thoughts and was going to do something for the Chrome extension in the future. Stay tuned for that.
I really appreciate this app even as a single user. I do not get the benefits of the network effect, but it's amazingly focused. Thank you for making the free portions of it - I'm more than happy to donate as well if you have a link.
Well, I'd like to support my free users without relying on donations. But you're not the first person to say this, so if all fails, it's good to know I have this an option!
* Email tasks that are pending at the end of the day. * Change priorities * You can request update, or add items to other's list of TO-DO ( a TODO is a task with same task start and end date). * Pull up the tasks in a calendar. * Search tasks.
I think that's a superfluous feature. Priorities in Dayboard are binary - it's either important (thus it goes on your 5 tasks) or it's not.
You can sort your tasks visually though. So if it helps to have the 5 tasks ordered by importance, you can already do that now!
Thanks, I'll sign up
- Would it be useful to integrate this with existing issue-trackers? Would it help if all members of a group can add tasks in a common pool and then pick tasks out of that pool (like an issue-tracker?)
- Is there a danger of people being afraid to add tasks that are new ideas because everyone would see a half-finished idea? Also, does announcing what you plan to do make it harder to change your mind if you realize what really needs to be done is different than what you announced would get done?
I might change my mind on this but I'm generally erring on the side of staying away from integrations.
At first, it sounds very convenient (everything's right there!) but over time, I believe it's going to do more harm than good.
There's a few reasons for that but the main reasons are:
- an issue / task created on another app might not fit within the scope of a day
- integrating tasks across services ultimately leads to having too many tasks in plain view.
Bottom line is this: seeing all your to dos would encourage you to "organize your todos" or "work on things you didn't intend to" -- which defeats the purpose of this app. There are plenty of other tools that organizes your thoughts / brain dumps / team communications pretty well and this isn't going to be one of them.
I'm not sure what you mean by your second point but remember, this list is really about what "you intend to work on today". Our priorities can and often do change throughout the day - but this might also show us the discrepancy between "what we set out to do" vs "what we actually did". Often times, we get pulled into doing things that are urgent but unimportant which 1) puts us into a fire-fighting mode and 2) may leave us feeling unaccomplished at the end of the day because "we were busy all day, but we feel like we got anything done". It's the same feeling we get when we spend all day in email. We've all been there before.
A few tiny styling issues: the 3D effect modals have sometimes results in the text being blurred on Chrome OSX (see https://www.dropbox.com/s/qna5gj9cm6zbovm/Screenshot%202014-...), and the input field background is a bit too low contrast (I occasionally was confused where to click in a form).
Yeah, there are a few other minor visual glitches as well - sorry, still ironing things out :) I'm working on it!
I've tried to find software like this that can be self hosted, but it is either not available or extremely expensive as the self hosted version is targeted at big companies with lots of users.
Is it just me being old fashioned, or are there more potential buyers of self hosted software being ignored as a potential customer?
The main problem with it is if its the developer/sysadmin crowd, most small businesses wouldn't pay for support. So you'd be limited to a few large companies that likely wouldn't use it anyway.
I'd really like to see a SaaS version that was also open source. That way people had both options.
I absolutely love this! I've just created an account and have sent an invite to my co-founder & designer to sign up!
Hopefully we'll be using this for our day-to-day tasks - it seems like a much nicer solution to finding out what we're working on than checking in with each other throughout the day on Skype...
Keep rocking it!
If you ever need help, have questions or for whatever reason, find it's not working for you guys, I'd love to hear from you. You can always reach me at john at dayboard.
