Source: WikipediaThe first topic area that will be discussed on Web Service Talk will be to-do lists. This area was basically chosen by me because I thought it would be an easy one to start with. There are some unique facets to this type of web tool but in general a lot of them are done in a fairly similar way.
I will start by doing some reviews of to do list webapps. Each review will discuss what I like and dislike about the webapp. Most importantly though, this means I will be outlining features that I find particularly useful and thus consider a very important feature of to do lists.
For some initial thoughts about to-do lists. I think that a lot of them are done in terribly wrong ways. The most important issue I have with them is ease-of-use. Ease-of-use is what holds to-do lists away from being used by a wider range of people. To be fair, I am pretty sure that to-do lists are not necessarily meant to be used by the general public and I think it's safe to say that a fair majority of them were made to follow the "Getting Things Done" principle, as well as for business professionals and IT people.
This is not to say that I except that as an excuse for bad design! The problems I have with these webapps is what has made me constantly search for the right one.
Many of these problems will be outlined in their specific situations as they are particular to each scenario but they all end up disinteresting me in continuous use.
I must claim a bias, I have a propensity to have difficulty maintaining use of to-do lists in general. This could very well contribute to my disinterest in to-do list webapps. But I think that this should be considered a challenge to the companies putting these webapps out!
Can someone create a to-do list webapp that can actually create interest in the webapp itself instead of considering it an efficient tool? By this I mean, can a to-do list webapp create a name for itself, or will it always be considered "does the best job of maintaining something that people normally don't like doing?" And to rephrase and touch on the issue one final time:
Can a to-do list webapp make productivity enjoyable?
Let's find out. To do list webapp posts will start in April!
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