Jottly: A New, Free "Tweet-Style" Productivity Web App

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mkaziz• 12 years ago

This looks like a great idea. The only thing I'm concerned about it the work it will probably require to organize my "jots".

scottmagdalein• 12 years ago

First glance: it's really pretty.

hkjer• 12 years ago

Made something similar years ago for devs. Not nearly as polished though: http://hkjels.github.io/ntask/

ea777• 12 years ago

Interesting for sure, but a couple big issues:

1. It's slow. I've come to expect a full JS front-end app for productivity tools nowadays, page loads feel very laggy.

2. They request your password in the email you have to send them to delete your account!!! That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

landongn• 12 years ago

Looks like the vast majority of this is built as a wordpress plugin. You may run into scaling issues due to the massive amounts of overhead within the wp_loop for this to be something sustainable long term.

Looking through the rendered source somewhat confirms this, and puts together a darker picture of sloppy, jQuery riddled javascript flung into whatever context it was needed.

I don't know how this is much better than asana (which is totally free, and quite performant) or tools like Firetask, Things, or any other myriad GTD tools. It's simply slower than those, and that's unfortunate.

Congrats on shipping something. Please take the time to polish it up as your immediate next step.

edit: Yikes. Wordpress isn't as secure as you think it is. things like this:

https://jottlyapp.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=delete&po...

as a direct action within your application isn't such a great idea.

mikhailt• 12 years ago

Wow. Sorry, I can't support any web apps that modifies the wordpress app into something else. It's pretty much like using Flash to power the Login forms on website.

It's an automatic deal breaker for me.

I do hope Jottly reconsiders this and I'll try when this happens.

I wish you guys the best luck on this though.

xxdesmus2• 12 years ago

Verification emails don't seem to be going out.... I can't imagine it's an issue on Gmail's side.

teleclimber• 12 years ago

Wasn't there a site that collected all the apps and SaaS products that were shown being used in a coffee-shop setting on their home page?

Too bad I can't find it because I really want to submit this.

thefool• 12 years ago

Thought it was http://www.jotly.co/ at first...

xxdesmus2• 12 years ago

Should get some CloudFlare caching on that site. :) Looks nice though, interested to give it a try.

grageth• 12 years ago

Just some feedback. I like new shiny things so thought I would check it out. I think you need to take a look at asana (http://asana.com/) and decide if you're just trying to do the same thing they are doing. Because they are doing it REALLY well. - I think the aesthetics are great, but for me personally there is just too much whitespace. - The time for a jot to save is just too long. - The fact the page refreshes on new jots is very distracting and in today's world of Angular/Ember/Backbone you shouldn't be refreshing pages.

Will definitely have another look should you do some updates, but really you have a lot of work to do to bring the app up to par with asana. Because I think that's your direct and already established competition.

Jottly: A New, Free "Tweet-Style" Productivity Web App

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