Everyone asks us what are we going to do? What’s next?
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
The next step is to make new fresh fancy design. The original goals behind us were to create something absolutely new and not to lose our main advantages. It was long way to redesign Somethings and all in all it is almost done! It’s taken us so much time to complete this because we tried to consider all your feedbacks. In addition to the visual refresh were added several useful features, more detailed review will be in the next post. May be you have any interesting ideas which features should be added.
We’re all really excited to see how you’ll like it. Here is the first screenshot of redesigned Somethings. Please take a look at these and let us know what you think. We are very interested in your opinion.
No. 1 — May 6th, 2009 at 3:02 am
What about iPhone version?
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Julia Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 5:18 am
Yes, as we said earlier, we are going to develop somethings for iphone, but, unfortunately, not as soon as we want. It will take a lot of resources, which we don’t have now. But we really try to solve this problem.
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No. 2 — May 6th, 2009 at 5:48 am
I like icons on the top menu, especially Trash =)
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Julia Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Thank you. We like our trash iсon too!
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No. 3 — May 6th, 2009 at 8:19 am
It looks really nice. I can’t wait to try it. I specially like your effort to keep it simple. Very good (and hard) work.
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Julia Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Ohh, thank you! It’s real pleasure to hear such words
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No. 4 — May 7th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Oh, it looks great! Go on improving such a great thing! But what about fixing some bugs, for example most annoying one – I’m constantly getting my deleted projects back, over and over again! I delete it, and then after few days or weeks I see it againg! Please, stop it, it drives me mad
Thanks for your work.
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Julia Reply:
May 7th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Actually, bugfixing was the another reason why we decided to make full redesign, as we had several problems in the internal architecture. So we couldn’t fix some bugs at all or it could take too much resources. We learned a great deal about what was missing and what was wrong. New version is a result of full Somethings revision.
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No. 5 — June 14th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
“Some things” I’d like to see: - Colors for similar projects - Some kind of priority for tasks
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Julia Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
What do you mean “Colors for similar projects”? We have already done colors for tasks and projects in a similar focus (inbox, today, next..) What do you think about it? Priorities for different tasks will be surely done.
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besugo Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I always try to associate a project with an area. This way, when I click on ‘Projects’ I can see them ordered by area. When projects are not associated with areas they appear unoredered. Of course, you can assign the same tag to similar projects, but I think the list isn´t ordered by tag either (btw, when you select a tag there isn’t an easy way to show all the projects again). I thought would help to identify similar projects or the same tag. Was just an idea. Not so sure now.
I think the idea of printing lists is more useful. I have an area called ‘Books I want to read’ (the title is self-descripting). I’d like to print all the items in that area when I go shopping.
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No. 6 — June 14th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Do you have any idea of when this will be released? Still waiting, and needing an upgrade…
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Julia Reply:
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Thank you for your patience. We’ll send you e-mail notification when everything is done. Hoping it will be very soon! Really really
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No. 7 — June 16th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Ah! And the posibility to print (clean and nice) screen contents
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No. 8 — July 3rd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
What is about some other languages? I can help you with spanish !
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Julia Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Thank you! It’s amazing idea! I’ll contact you by email.
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No. 9 — August 4th, 2009 at 10:55 am
An icon indicating whether the task has any notes.
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Julia Reply:
August 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Thank you for your ideas. If it is possible I’d like to discuss them with you. Please, email me to julia@shergin.com.
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No. 10 — August 7th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Hi Julia! Good Job, I’ve just fallen in love with “Somethings”
Some questions: There will be any local backup option? I’m worried about the possiblity of lossing all my work (server crashes, etc…).
I’d like to know too, how safe is our data in your server (server backup, data encryption, etc)
Thanks in advance.
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Julia Reply:
August 13th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
We are going to add synchronization with some desktop applications in the near future (for example, MS Outlook, iCal). You shouldn’t worry about your data now, ’cause DB backups on the remote server every day.
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No. 11 — November 29th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Hi guys, Actually I’m a new user, but the current design is awesome. I would be extremely grateful if there will be an option to retain the current design. It is simple, but very easy and fun to use.
And also an idea: is it possible to add an export to Google calendar?
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Julia Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
We didn’t think about it. Not only the applications design will be changed but the backends internal architecture will be changed too, so it won’t be easy to retain current design. Certainly, export and import will be added but not now.
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No. 12 — January 1st, 2010 at 1:09 am
I second the opinion above that the current design is really fantastic and can’t entirely see the need for too much change.
Their are plenty of apps with clutter out there whereas what somethings has (from a first look) is an elegant simplicity!
I’ll repeat my request in a previous post: please give us an update on what is going in the lab?
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Julia Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Somethings is really alive. We will be back soon
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