I have been using Basecamp to manage my projects both at CityTeam and for Blue Sphere Studios, and it’s become indespensable. From the same makers of Basecamp comes Backpack, a smaller, lighter, but more versatile version. I signed up when it came out (it’s free), but just started using it for my personal, non-work, to do lists around the house.
With the free account, you get to create 5 pages–if you’re using it like me, that essentially means 5 projects. Check out an example of my “Yard Work” page, which I made public for anyone to see:
Yard Work” to do list (in a new window)
What you’ll see is just for viewing, but on my end, I can add new to do items, notes, pictures, files, give anyone I choose to be able to view and add stuff (via e-mail). The great thing about web apps like this is that there are no ties to a certain computer–you can access it anywhere there’s a computer and internet.
It’s free, so if you need to get organized, and don’t do well with post-it notes, sign up and give it a try. I highly recommend it.
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Yeah for Rails! DHH is a master.
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Curious as to why you require the email address…. Hurrah for accessibility; I can post from Lynx! I also like how you warn that the link will open in a new window. People who only use IE are used to that, but for the rest of us it’s annoying to be surprised by pop-ups.
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Hm, didn’t know that requiring an e-mail address was default for WordPress…I just turned that off.
I have a redesign in the works but I really haven’t had much time to devote to personal projects lately. Maybe someday I’ll launch it. What I would REALLY like to do is learn some basic Rails, enough to maintain Typo and use that instead of WordPress. I have Rails setup on one of my servers, but don’t know much it. Would I need to know a lot in order to use Typo?
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I thought you were using your own blog engine? I’m in the same place with a redesign in the works but not quite ready yet…. I published it anyway. =D
Typo is pretty easy to set up on its own. The only marginally difficult thing would be migrating all your old posts. (Tricky mySQL stuff, no Rails knowledge required. I did it with a PHP script, which is an ugly but effective way to do it.)
I think it would be a good way to learn Rails. The code itself is very intuitive.
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I had been using my own blog engine and was running WordPress concurrently just to see what it was like, and I really liked it. All that stuff I was doing with RSS feeds, mod rewrites, and such were all packaged in with WordPress, and the admin was way better than I could come up with, so two months ago I made the swictch, though you wouldn’t have been able to tell on the front end, as I simply ported the same design.
I had to migrate my old posts to WordPress, and it was long and ugly…