May 25th, 2008
This site is available for you to sign up and use. However, we’re still officially 1 week away from the launch, which means that you might see a few changes as we tweak things up here and there. Your patience is appreciated. We hope not to disturb the operation of the site very much.
This is still phase one of the site. It is, we hope, a useful jotting application that will prove reliable and usable. In the coming weeks and months you will see new features added that will set ThumbJot apart from other ‘note taking’ applications. Our focus shall remain on jotting at the speed of thought, taking into the account the wider user experience and psychology of jotting. This site shall not be about writing things down. Jotting is something far greater than just writing. Keep tuned for the announcements!
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May 25th, 2008
The quickest way to add a note to your account is to use a text message. Set this up in your profile page.
You can also bookmark the ‘New Note’ page by adding the bookmark http://www.thumbjot.com/notes/new
Next week we are tuning up the note submission form to speed the page re-load time after submitting a note. (For the techies among you, we are going to use AJAX for the submission.)
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May 18th, 2008
Everyone has a to-do list! For most of us, it usually sits in our brains somewhere, items fluttering in and out of our thoughts as we are reminded of various tasks, have random thoughts or feelings of panic. There is no best way to solve the perennial to-do problem. For some of us, just writing the list down is cathartic. We feel relief to write it down at least. It’s a first step in managing the to-do emotions in the brain and heart.
You can keep a to-do “list” using TJ. There are various solutions. We’ve deliberately kept TJ as open and unstructured as possible. That’s because of our belief that the more you have to think upfront about information and tasks, the less likely you are to jot them down.
One method is to create a to-do pinboard. Anything you put here is a potential to-do item. It doesn’t mean you have to do it or even need to do it. The reason you put it there is to let yourself know that when you had the idea, you had an inkling that there really is something to be done here. Some items will be more concrete than others. It doesn’t matter. If you really need a way to indicate importance or urgency, then use a tag. Something like “hot” is a good one. You can use this in various ways across different jots, but when it appears in your to-do pinboard, then you know to look at these more frequently.
Another approach is to use a tag “todo” that can be added to any jot on any pinboard. It simply indicates that there’s something to be done here. Clicking the “todo” link in your tags list will always bring you back to all those things that you felt were to-do items.
Once you have your to-do jots, however you indicate and store them, then you can regularly review them and use the archive/delete options to clear off items that you do. If you decide that something isn’t so important, or doesn’t need doing, but you don’t want to lose it, then archive it away or simply delete the tag. Or, you can add a new tag, like “tickle” as a reminder to go tickle this list once in a while to see what you jotted down.
Have fun. Let us know how you like to organise your to-do items.
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May 16th, 2008
We were adamant about adopting the iPhone UI style guidelines for our iPhone interface, which comes with certain restrictions, such as bits and pieces of code that get loaded in the background to make it all work nicely. We think that the iPhone UI is already pretty fast, even over GPRS (roll on 3G!) but we’re working on yet another iteration to speed things up. One step close to our mission to jot at the speed of thought.
Will post once it’s done, if you don’t notice the difference first!
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May 15th, 2008
We hope that you will enjoy using ThumbJot. We’ve tried to make it bare bones, simple-as-possible, don’t bother me with 100 features (dot com) easy to use. You’ll still get stuck - so will we, but we want to keep things moving along nicely, so we’ve opened our support community pages with the innovative people-powered Get Satisfaction.
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May 15th, 2008
Don’t forget that ThumbJot is about jotting, not note-taking. The principle of jotting is NOT to think about what you’re writing, it’s just to get it down. It’s those momentary thoughts that bubble up into your conscious mind and rapidly fizzle away in the hubbub of the day. JOT THEM DOWN! Text them to your TJ account or add a note. Organise your thoughts later.
Organising can get in the way. Do this later. Add tags for now (or later) if you’re desperate to categorise or label your jot. That’s what tags are for, although you might want to spend time later thinking about how to organise your use of tags.
Happy jotting!
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April 21st, 2008
Get ready to jot! We’re here, ready to go. Our beta site is breaking through the various last minute adjustments and panic attacks, but things are just about ready for go.
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