First the Beer, Then the Code
I have been wrestling with something for quite some time, and as of tonight, I am done wrestling. The path is clear and the decision feels good. (And you thought this was going to be a post about BarCamp.)
Actiontastic will be free and open source. The free (as in “free beer”) part starts tonight. The code (as in “freely available source code”) will follow when the overhead of a new team won’t crush the project under its own weight. Those with experience getting to 1.0 will understand what I mean.
Opening up this project for community participation is the best possible thing that I can think of doing for its future. Great things are on the horizon for that sweet intersection of the web and the desktop. I would rather discuss them openly and collaborate with other like-minded people than hide any of the details just to make another $29 shareware sale. I am not opposed to the idea of shareware in general and have purchased quite a bit of it myself over the past year. It’s just that shareware isn’t the right path for Actiontastic.
My plans for Actionatr are similar. It will still launch as planned at http://actionatr.com. However, you will be able choose the for-pay web service or grab the code and make your own. Thanks to the fantastic API support in Rails, your data will always be free and available as it should be. Add OpenID to the mix, and you can see how free cross-site collaboration might be possible. My hope is that enough people will use the hosted service to support the development of both Actiontastic and Actionatr, but either way the idea is just to build great software with great people. If there’s no business behind it, then so be it.
So, if you’re like me and have an almost physical need to build things and to be creative, be prepared — I will be stalking you (kidding!). I will, however, be looking for those with an interest in one or more of these things: design and usability, meaningful XHTML/CSS, Ruby, Rails, Obj-C/Cocoa, RubyCocoa, REST-based services, microformats, and OpenID.
Oh yeah, a non-expiring 0.9.3 is out tonight and includes a nag-free start up, plus some bug fixes for URL linking, dates, tabbing, and syncing. Thank you for taking the time to report these bugs in The Hub. As you can see, everyone wins with this kind of participation.
And one more thing: the new print functionality on the way for 1.0 uses user-definable XHTML/CSS for rendering. Any designers out there want to help dream up the ultimate set of print templates? I have a start (and they use hToDo just for fun), but I would love to see other angles. Starter ideas might be: actions listed by project, actions listed by context, a list of projects for review, etc.
oso wrote:
Definitely the right move. Actiontastic + Quicksilver are now my two must have apps. Where do we donate?
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 12:50 am | Permalink
rentzsch wrote:
Interesting direction. I’m glad you’re blogging your grand experiment live for all of us :-)
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 12:50 am | Permalink
Ben wrote:
Great move, Jon! Thanks for putting so much effort in the software and now making it open source. Another one huge advantage of Actiontastic over Inbox, Ghostaction and the like. *applause*
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 1:44 am | Permalink
Michael Sean Becker wrote:
Jon, the is an incredibly generous move on your part. Thank you so much for this.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 1:55 am | Permalink
Brab wrote:
Congratulations, thank you very much for this decision, it’s most generous.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 3:23 am | Permalink
Chris wrote:
I’m seriously impressed - many, many thanks. Looking forward to actionatr!
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 3:25 am | Permalink
Reinier Meenhorst wrote:
Caught this on Twitter - you rock!
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 3:40 am | Permalink
Dirk Sierd de Vries wrote:
Thanks Jon! Just made my day..
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 3:46 am | Permalink
Actiontastic and Actionatr will be open source .:. eDragonu - the choice of a personal path wrote:
[…] And free as in free beer, as the author post in this new relase of Actiontastic announcement. Actionatr, the online sibling of Actiontastic, will be Ruby-based, from what I understand, and it will try to mix up microformats and OpenId. That will eventually make Actionatr a very open platform itself, allowing different levels of collaboration and interconnection. […]
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 4:34 am | Permalink
Tijs wrote:
I salute you! Good choice, i’ll try and get the word out.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 4:36 am | Permalink
tijs.org » Blog Archive » Actiontastic to be open sourced wrote:
[…] Actiontastic developer Jon Crosby just announced on his development blog he will be releasing Actiontastic 1.0 as an open source project. That is great news for the community and for Jon as it takes his app from “one of the best” productivity tools out there to “the best” in a single swoop. […]
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 4:42 am | Permalink
y011 wrote:
Thank you for the generosity. Weirdly I spent the day “committing” my life into your app and had chosen to buy a few copies over other things out there… I wanted to make some suggestions and see your new news. Noice!
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 4:59 am | Permalink
Pinotblogger wrote:
I’m with oso, where do we donate?
Tremendous move for the best GTD software in existence.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 5:08 am | Permalink
Anders Betnér wrote:
Nice move, I too would recommend you to get some kind of donation thing going. This is really a very useful app right now as it is. It has just the right kind of leanness for my taste.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 5:19 am | Permalink
philcozz wrote:
Wow. Thanks for the generosity… and the nice GTD app.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 5:22 am | Permalink
Jose Nlo Martins wrote:
Now Jon, ok, ok, I am not a programmer, I am a user, I hope the momentum will be strong enough to make sure the needed polishes and functional upgrades will happen. Because Actiontastic **still** needs them. I myself as a user **still** need them.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 6:50 am | Permalink
Colman wrote:
Yup, where’s the donation button?
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 6:54 am | Permalink
JKR wrote:
Thanks so much, Jon! This is such a wonderful program and I really hope, that this one takes off!
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 7:16 am | Permalink
Nate wrote:
Jon,
I echo the sentiments that this is incredibly generous. You’ve done a great job on this application, and I’m incredibly greatful to you for doing this. I hope you can continue finding satisfaction in developing this application!
I also agree that at the least you should provide a donate button. Your work does deserve at least some monetary reward :)
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 7:24 am | Permalink
Joel wrote:
Congrats on the decision to make Actiontastic open source.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 7:37 am | Permalink
Owen wrote:
congratulations and thank you for this great generosity. I think this will put actiontastic far ahead of the other gtd apps out ther, brilliant move. Now you just need a nice website for the 1.0 product. p.s. third that: where can we donate?
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 8:23 am | Permalink
Mike wrote:
My reaction is mixed: (1) Free and open source — great! (2) Uh-oh…what’s going to happen to the quality of the UI and conservation of the feature set in an open source model?
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 8:49 am | Permalink
Shig wrote:
Awesome, awesome news. Open source just makes sense these days. I’m especially excited by what you’re doing with printing; I have about a dozen to-do list apps on my hard drive, and none of them prints in quite the right way for me. Being able to customize my own will be perfect. Well done, sir, well done.
A quick tip, in case this hasn’t been mentioned before: the Mail-to-iCal script works well with indev’s MailTags. That allows you to make a todo out of anything, not just messages you send to yourself with special subject lines.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 10:00 am | Permalink
James Byers wrote:
Thanks Jon! This seems like a smart strategic move to distinguish Actiontastic further from the field of Mac GTD apps. If the path of Actiontastic so far is any indication, I think you’ll be successful building a business off Actionatr.
I do share some of the concerns voiced above about open-source-aided feature creep. Keep it simple!
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 11:14 am | Permalink
Dominik wrote:
Made some PayPal Money on eBay recently, so — where is the donate button?!? ;-)
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 11:15 am | Permalink
Craig wrote:
I’m not a user (I’m invested in Tracks right now), but I just popped by to say thanks for your generosity.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 12:37 pm | Permalink
kodekon wrote:
Absolutely fabulous! People like you almost brings tears to my eyes for being, you know, nice :)
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 1:02 pm | Permalink
Scogtt wrote:
This is very generous Jon. I do hope that you get deserving rewards for all your hard work — give me a donate button and I will hit it — the connection to MailTags has been great and I look forward to contributing ways of improving this connection once the source code is available.
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 1:09 pm | Permalink
super8trash wrote:
Thanks for your work and generosity!
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 3:55 pm | Permalink
matthew smith wrote:
Jon. Interesting move. I’m stoked personally. I really see the benefits of a move like this. All I want to know is what you’re going to call the NINJA! :)
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 6:34 pm | Permalink
Treyan wrote:
Thanks… love the program. Can the free beer be open source, too?
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 7:14 pm | Permalink
TSavel wrote:
Wow….what a move. Just waiting for your donate button. I use your app constantly at work…. kicked up my ability to multitask… significantly. Thanks again for all your hard work on this!
Posted on 15-Mar-07 at 10:33 pm | Permalink
Jon wrote:
@Everyone:
Thank you for the encouragement and thank you for participating in the evolution of this app!
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 12:13 am | Permalink
People Over Process » Blog Archive » links for 2007-03-16 wrote:
[…] KaBlog / First the Beer, Then the Code One of my new favorite apps, Actiontastic is going to be open source with a hosted option/thingy. Nice! (tags: opensource gtd actiontastic via:mray) […]
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 2:22 am | Permalink
Bloody Fingers Actiontastic libéré « wrote:
[…] Actiontastic libéré March 16th, 2007 — vnoel Not only is Actiontastic the best app around that I know of to keep track of your tasks in a GTD-like fashion, but it is now free, in both senses of the word. No excuse not to use it. Posted in GTD, free, Mac, Software, Apple, Technology. […]
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 5:26 am | Permalink
Vincent wrote:
Congratulations. This is a very courageous and noble move!
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 5:26 am | Permalink
Morgan wrote:
Wow! I’m so impressed that you’ve built such a great app and have decided to make it open source. It’s an inspiring example, and I hope you make boat loads of money with actionatr.com.
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 5:58 am | Permalink
unlimacted » Actiontastic devient libre et gratuit. wrote:
[…] Dans une note publiée sur le site de l’éditeur, intitulée sobrement “D’abord la bière et ensuite le code“, Kaboomerang annonce qu’Actiontastic, un logiciel d’organisation basé sur la méthode GTD, est désormais gratuit et libre. Je n’ai pas encore testé ce logiciel, mais je pense le faire dès que j’aurai assimilé cette méthode GTD qui nous vient tout droit des États-Unis et qui a l’air de faire ses preuves (après une période d’adaptation/apprentissage, quand même). […]
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 7:06 am | Permalink
fscklog wrote:
Actiontastic wird kostenlos…
Während man sich zwangsläufig fragen muss, wie man vor lauter Geteste des völlig überbordenden Angebots an GTD-Apps überhaupt noch zu irgendetwas anderem kommen soll, kommt gerade gelegen, dass Actiontastic kostenlos und (bald) Open Source sein wi…
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 7:22 am | Permalink
Vijay Kiran wrote:
Thanks a lot, I appreciate your efforts for building a great product. And hopefully start to contribute.
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 7:32 am | Permalink
Jeff wrote:
Jon:
So, the software sounds way cool and I’m all for open source. Having stumbled across a blog posting on TUAW, though, I have no history with the product, and to my great fustration, can’t find a summary of the features anywhere on here…just blog postings detailing your updates. I’m afraid i don’t know what “contextulizing machine” means and I haven’t read the GTD book…
Think you can add three paragraphs for each program, summarizing what they do? It’d make it a lost easier for first-timers like me to get introduced to the software.
Regardless, I’ll be downloading it over the weekend (once out of the mac-barren world that is my office) and experimenting.
Thanks very much!
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 7:36 am | Permalink
Actiontastic going Free and Open Source at 3motions.net wrote:
[…] We’ve mentioned the “Getting Things Done” application Actiontastic several times on its road to 1.0, but today the developer announced that he has decided to make the application free and open source (instead of $29 shareware, as originally planned). To that end, he has released a new version today for free download (0.9.3), with the source code to follow “when the overhead of a new team won’t crush the project under its own weight.” He also notes that the forthcoming web-based GTD application Actionatr will also be open source, though a commercial version also is planned. […]
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 8:27 am | Permalink
Sam Gwilym wrote:
Finally, someone with the balls to release their GTD app for free. You wouldn’t believe the good karma you’ll be getting for this.
Fantastic software, and a great show of generosity.
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 10:01 am | Permalink
Pierce Wetter wrote:
Congratulations! I’m planning on doing this with Frictionless (my GTD app) as well.
Sounds like we think alike too, I was planning on using HTML/CSS/miscMerge for printing as well.
Suggestion for templates: Look at DIYPlanner.com
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 10:04 am | Permalink
michaelGregoire wrote:
Wow! What terrific news! Thanks so much!
I’d like to hear more on why you went the free and open-source route?
I’m going to be developing something over the next year and have been tossing around the same thing in my head. I’m creating the software to fill a need that isn’t currently filled by any mac software and also would like to earn a living by such an endevour. Though I also would love to open it up if it were financially feasible.
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 12:52 pm | Permalink
GTD Tool Actiontastic Goes Open Source « sfp101: Stress-Free Productivity wrote:
[…] GTD Tool Actiontastic Goes Open Source Published March 16th, 2007 Uncategorized […]
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 1:20 pm | Permalink
Robb Irrgang wrote:
You are too awesome.
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 2:30 pm | Permalink
d wrote:
oh boy, oh boy, oh boy-woohoo!
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 3:34 pm | Permalink
betalog.de › Getting Things Done wrote:
[…] Gerade von hier, nach hier, dorthin gesurft. Und das hier höre ich mir jetzt mal an - schließlich naht das neue Semester! […]
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 4:42 pm | Permalink
disterics wrote:
I was holding out for omnifocus but this changes everything. Nothing like using software that you can fix/modify. Hopefully by the time you release the code my obj-c/cocoa training will be over and i can sign up as developer.
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 5:58 pm | Permalink
Circle Six Blog » Blog Archive » untitled wrote:
[…] I just noticed there’s a new release of Actiontastic out that fixes a couple of my major interface gripes, including the broken tab stops on the date input in the anti-drawer. And it’s a non-expiring beta with no nag screen, and, perhaps most exciting of all, the author has decided to make Actiontastic free and open-source. Actiontastic» Geekery» GTD» news» opensource» Share this article:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 6:13 pm | Permalink
Luke Melia wrote:
Interesting news. I’m not sure how far along actionatr is, but have you considered contributing to and using Tracks, an existing OSS Rails-based GTD tool? I’ve put some work into a REST API in the development trunk, and also added Open ID support. I wonder how far off it is from what you have planned.
Cheers from NYC,
Luke
Posted on 16-Mar-07 at 10:40 pm | Permalink
elucidations » To GTD or not to GTD wrote:
[…] And, lo! I discover that Actiontastic - one of the better (apparently) GTD products for the Mac has just gone Open Source. […]
Posted on 17-Mar-07 at 2:55 am | Permalink
Program your own GTD app | brilliantdays.com wrote:
[…] Now you can, as Jon Crosby has decided to make Actiontastic free and open source: The free (as in “free beer”) part starts tonight. The code (as in “freely available source code”) will follow when the overhead of a new team won’t crush the project under its own weight. Those with experience getting to 1.0 will understand what I mean. […]
Posted on 17-Mar-07 at 5:03 am | Permalink
myMacBUZZ » Actiontastic to go open source wrote:
[…] Actiontastic is a fantastic application that I’ve been using for a while to help me get into my GTD ‘flow’. The app had been in in a public beta for some time and it’s developer, Jon Crosby, had originally intended on releasing it as shareware. However, I was pleasantly surprised when Jon announced on his blog that he was planning to release it for free (as in “free beer”) and become an open source project instead. […]
Posted on 17-Mar-07 at 8:55 am | Permalink
Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Actiontastic gets MailTags integration, goes Open Source wrote:
[…] Jon Crosby announced the shift to a free, open source future for Actiontastic in a post on his blog a few days ago: Opening up this project for community participation is the best possible thing that I can think of doing for its future. Great things are on the horizon for that sweet intersection of the web and the desktop. I would rather discuss them openly and collaborate with other like-minded people than hide any of the details just to make another $29 shareware sale. […]
Posted on 18-Mar-07 at 6:57 am | Permalink
Intense Minimalism » Actiontastic è stato liberato! wrote:
[…] Invece, ieri Bru mi segnala che Actiontastic è stato reso open source dall’autore. Oltre ad essere una applicazione semplice e ben fatta per gestire il modello GTD, dispone anche di un comodissimo plugin per Quicksilver. […]
Posted on 18-Mar-07 at 8:06 am | Permalink
genehack.org » Blog Archive » tab dump // 20070318 wrote:
[…] Actiontastic opens up. I think playing with Actiontastic may be the “hey this feels like productivity even though I’m not doing any actual work” activity-of-choice for me today… […]
Posted on 18-Mar-07 at 8:25 am | Permalink
Eric G. wrote:
Wow Jon! I see big things ahead for this already awesome app. Thank you for all your hard work and for giving the big picture the highest priority. It seems thats what visionary men (and women) do, and you have now proven yourself among them.
Posted on 18-Mar-07 at 4:15 pm | Permalink
Tim wrote:
AWESOME!!!
Posted on 19-Mar-07 at 4:16 am | Permalink
ChrisH wrote:
Jon, I don’t know what to say. Lake a game of chess where you think you can see the inevitable (usually losing) outcome…. whoooshka out of nowhere comes a checkmate. Nice one. I think you have checkmated everyone else off the planet.
However, like all my other posts I hope this keeps it lean and mean!
Posted on 19-Mar-07 at 5:28 am | Permalink
Jay Tuley wrote:
Cool stuff, I read about this on daringfireball
Posted on 19-Mar-07 at 12:17 pm | Permalink
Damien Pollet wrote:
Great!
http://typo.cdlm.fasmz.org/articles/2007/03/19/actiontastic-will-be-free-and-open-source
Posted on 19-Mar-07 at 2:57 pm | Permalink
Actiontastic devient libre et gratuit at #doesNotUnderstand: wrote:
[…] Actionstatic est un logiciel de GTD pour mac qui non seulement devient gratuit, mais en plus passe au libre également. […]
Posted on 19-Mar-07 at 4:06 pm | Permalink
Le blog d’Olivier » Actiontastic, du GTD open-source sur Mac wrote:
[…] Jon Crosby, le développeur d’Actiontastic — un outil de todo (GTD pour faire branchouille :)) sur Mac exclusivement – vient d’annoncer son passage en open-source. […]
Posted on 19-Mar-07 at 5:25 pm | Permalink
dwt wrote:
You know, I was just on the verge of starting my own Open Source GTD Implementation (aptly named GToDo) - that is I was just about done with a detailed requirements planing and paper prototyping - but I’d love to join your project, if you don’t mind. :)
Posted on 21-Mar-07 at 9:07 am | Permalink
Jon wrote:
@Volunteers:
Thank you for the offer to help. I will post details as soon as possible about getting the source code for Actiontastic, Actionatr, etc.
Posted on 21-Mar-07 at 10:59 pm | Permalink
CuRoi wrote:
Late to the party, but I’ll chime in with a hearty congrats!
Given recent struggles with high-profile open source projects, this is a bold move on your part. But I’m keen to see where it leads, and the success that I’m confident will follow. To those concerned this move will damage the integrity: I’m sure Jon will play a pretty significant benevolent-dictator role. (And a good one at that!)
In any case, I’ll continue lurking, awaiting the source release with baited breath.
Posted on 22-Mar-07 at 9:11 pm | Permalink
Gustomela Big Mac’s! › Actiontastic, open e free › March › 2007 wrote:
[…] Great news! I ragazzi di Kaboomerang, sviluppatori di questo bellissimo GTD, hanno annunciato sul loro blog che Actiontastic sarà gratuito e open source. Questo per garantire che lo sviluppo dell’applicazione possa andare avanti senza il rischio che collassi su sè stessa, o almeno riducendolo :) Come è successo con Fire, per dire. Era un IM interessante, una volta lo usavo, quando il Papero (aka Adium) era ancora troppo immaturo. Poi proprio per la concorrenza e la mancanza di sviluppatori è stato abbandonato, RIP. […]
Posted on 23-Mar-07 at 7:22 am | Permalink
sammyn wrote:
Keep up this great resource. best greetings!
Posted on 23-Mar-07 at 10:16 am | Permalink
codedifferent.com wrote:
Mac OS X software to reduce paper chaos…
How to reduce the paper chaos is one of the things nearly everyone is coping with. Especially if your work is creative, if you are searching for innovation, if you have to manage projects, meetings and contacts you really get lost. Great ideas, solutio…
Posted on 23-Mar-07 at 10:35 am | Permalink
revod wrote:
Open Source GTD App for Mac…
I’ve tested lots of GTD Tools over the last months and always got back to handwritten short-term todo lists on paper. I’d just given up searching as I found Actiontastic. Actiontastic is a simple and well structured GTD tool with inbox, pro…
Posted on 25-Mar-07 at 3:01 pm | Permalink
Ales wrote:
Great app. Does exactly what it needs to do. I guess the new releases will be even better.
Where can we donate?
Posted on 25-Mar-07 at 4:12 pm | Permalink
Niels K. wrote:
The app seems to be really cool but how do I change the context of the action with the keyboard - via tabbing into the context-field it isn’t possible, some shortcut I am missing?
Posted on 26-Mar-07 at 10:45 am | Permalink
Niels K. wrote:
And is there any way to import the stuff from kGTD? I have a lot of stuff in there and it will take a few hours to move the stuff by hand over to Actiontastic
Posted on 26-Mar-07 at 11:50 am | Permalink
Paul Hagstrom wrote:
At the very top of my list for things to do (either myself if I can figure out how, or for someone else) is to allow Actiontastic to assign existing iCal calendars to contexts rather than creating its own. I synchronize my home folder across several machines (at the file level, not with iSync) and I can only use Actiontastic on one machine because when I run it on a different machine it won’t adopt the already-existing @context calendars, but insists on making its own new ones. It’s a relatively easy thing to do (though I get very nervous just thinking about interacting with Sync Services), and it would make a huge difference in my ability to actually use Actiontastic.
I’ll look at the source when it’s available and see if I can figure out a patch, but if someone beats me to it, I won’t complain.
Posted on 26-Mar-07 at 11:58 am | Permalink
Kev wrote:
You’ve created a truly elegant and useful product. I was already ready to purchase this but rarely do we see such altruistic acts! Thanks amazingly and I do hope like others you setup a donation facility for those that would like to show appreciation for the great work you’ve done. Best to your undoubtedly cool efforts in the future!
Posted on 27-Mar-07 at 10:36 pm | Permalink
Mark Jaquith wrote:
Actiontastic has really improved a lot. And now it has one huge feature that OmniFocus will never have: freedom to use it and modify it for any purpose. Thank you!
Posted on 01-Apr-07 at 5:26 am | Permalink
Andy wrote:
I have decided that Circus Ponies NoteBook app will become my reference application and that Actiontastic will cover my GTD needs, which are currently covered by NoteBook.
I would like to use Actonatr when it becomes available, although I am concerned about long term costs if it is to be a subscription system. Another concern will be whether I will be able to access Actionatr from work as our net access has all sorts of restrictions. I can’t even use Googe Calendar at work. )-8
I am looking forward to when some more detail will be available.
Posted on 01-Apr-07 at 1:45 pm | Permalink
Josh wrote:
This is great news - I love Actiontastic, and can only see it getting better. And with it being open source, I can make a few tweaks just for me. Though, one thing I think others might like to see as well, is the ability to close the window, without quitting the app. Just something to consider.
Posted on 03-Apr-07 at 9:00 am | Permalink
Craig (mars-hill) wrote:
Thanks for open-sourcing and financially freeing the project. I’ve been watching it since the start, but have now been using it for two weeks and love it.
If I ever make enough money to donate to any software projects, this’ll be #1
Posted on 05-Apr-07 at 9:28 am | Permalink
Kevin Swan wrote:
When a project or task is paused, it should go light-grey, or be moved into an @waiting category (per GTD) automatically.
??
Posted on 11-Apr-07 at 12:21 am | Permalink
glouk wrote:
This looks like great software ! Do you plan to localize it, and are you looking for translators ?
Posted on 11-Apr-07 at 9:49 am | Permalink
Alex wrote:
Actiontastic being offered for free is great news!
On your way to 1.0, could you possibly add European (day/month/year, i.e. “31.3.2007″ instead of “03/31/2007″) date format as an option?
And maybe you could think about an option to sync only “Next Actions” to iCal, not everything. It would probably be more GTDesque (and much more usable) that way.
And while it’s not exactly GTD, but since iCal has priorities and Actiontastic syncs with iCal, could priorities also be included?
Oh, and you should never offer me free beer, I might become impertinent :-)
(I already posted this several weeks ago, but your system obviously didn’t like my bogus email address. Why does everyone have to insist on collecting email addresses even when they’re not necessary?)
Posted on 11-Apr-07 at 1:33 pm | Permalink
Meekish wrote:
Just started using Actiontastic this morning. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. One thing I would recommend is simplifying the Actiontastic icon. It just doesn’t fit with the other shapes in my dock. I think that the icon would be much stronger if it were just the blue-print and hammer, or just the anvil and check mark. Perhaps the blue print and hammer could be shaped like the Mail icon, Vienna icon, TextMate icon, etc.? That seems to be a common shape for productivity/utility apps.
Anyhoo, great work!
Posted on 13-Apr-07 at 3:28 pm | Permalink
Mike wrote:
Can’t wait for the next version. Thank you for developing this so far, it is excellent :o)
Posted on 19-Apr-07 at 11:43 pm | Permalink
Pasi wrote:
Hi there!
This is a neat little application that is really helping me get rid of that pounding vein in my forehead.
Something just popped into my mind. Wouldn’t it be great if the app could create folders in a designated projects folder if you add references to items and move the item into that folder? I do a lot of research and sometimes I lose track of all the material I collect, this way I could gather all the material I need and have the app organize it for me. Of course, it should only create this folder if I add stuff to my projects or if I create a folder myself.
This way I could setup an action that synchronizes my projects folder to my iPod/USB device and always have a copy of the files I am currently working on.
Posted on 28-Apr-07 at 2:37 pm | Permalink
alex wrote:
any updates? it’s been a while
Posted on 04-May-07 at 1:54 pm | Permalink
josh in kobe wrote:
Hi! Just started playing with Actiontastic and it seems great…but for one thing….
Is there a reason you chose to close Actiontastic when the red X is pressed? A more consistent OS X behavior would be hiding the application. I’d like to keep it running, but in playing with it for a few hours, I’ve accidentally closed it about five times.
Posted on 09-May-07 at 11:52 am | Permalink
Loltastic wrote:
Is this dead? What’s the hold up on vaporware opensource project? It’s been 2.5 months since the announcement. It would take less than an hour to commit the source to an OS hosting site.
Posted on 29-May-07 at 6:05 pm | Permalink
KaBlog / Two Scoops wrote:
[…] Actiontastic is going to continue on its announced open source path. If you’ve been wondering about the source code release, it is still on the way but involves more than the simple mechanics of publishing some code. The goal is to make it GPL and that involves rewriting GPL-incompatible third party code prior to release. […]
Posted on 03-Jun-07 at 11:32 pm | Permalink