Productivity and Self-improvement by Gutata

Squinto is coming along nicely. You can now sort by priority or date and Squinto remembers your sort preference. I added this because sometimes I have hard deadlines for certain tasks, but those tasks aren’t necessarily at the top of my list. So I usually end up sorting by priority. Since tasks with known due dates are usually of high importance, sorting by date is the default.

Oh, and Squinto is now 20-30% faster. You probably couldn’t notice since the pages are usually delivered in under 0.1 seconds, but the code is more organized and more efficient, which means you can get your life organized (.03 seconds faster). Yay!

Now this is a company that carries out a 37Signals philosophy with great success. Their tagline:

15 employees. 150,000 paying customers. 72,000,000 photos.
We’ll always be smaller than the photo-sharing divisions of giant companies.
Which is a very good thing.

Pretty amazing how well they’ve done with their streamlined photo site that does just a few things well.

Online todolists are great for keeping notes, breaking down tasks, and in general, getting yourself organized. It’s amazing how difficult it is to find online todolists that support priority, due dates, and hierarchical listing. So I have made my own and have been trying to improve the interface. Here are some of the fixes and new features:

• Top todos are shown. This is great if you have more than a few lists and want a snapshot of your highest priority tasks.
• Completed todos are moved to a separate area. Think of it like an archive. This will help keep your lists short and clean.
• Fixed sorting by date so that they are descending (i.e. earlier dates appear first).
• Fixed an issue where the todos can disappear.
• Updated text display so that it doesn’t disappear. Now any browser should have a nice display. Let me know if you don’t.
• Added color to priority setting.

Enjoy! And Happy Christmas and Merry New Year everyone!