Comments on: Scrybe looks pretty good — so far http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:14:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Chuquet http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-70497 Chuquet Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:11:05 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/#comment-70497 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] [...]

]]> By: Steve Newson DOT net: Scrybe, maybe not http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-70355 Steve Newson DOT net: Scrybe, maybe not Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:24:26 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/#comment-70355 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Scrybe, maybe not Yesterday marked four weeks in my new job. I spent today getting organised, which was mainly about getting back into the GTD habit. So when I took a break to catch up with my blog reading I was immediately drawn to a post by Robert Scoble directing me towards the latest tool for getting organised: Scrybe. The blogosphere is eagerly anticipating the launch.The registration page describes Scrybe as "a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today´s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way. Simple solutions for some age old problems."I signed up for the beta and watched a video of some impressive ajax trickery. What stood out for me, from watching the video, was the way you can get Hipster PDA style functionality out of the product via the papersync feature. I liked that a lot.However I don't see this as a product that is in danger of replacing my Outlook / NetCentrics GTD add-in combo anytime soon. The lack of an email client, or integration with an email client, means there is no seamless way of moving projects / tasks / next actions from email to the to-do lists. Email is my primary source of next actions, so seamless integration is critical to my organisational process. To-do lists are integrated with the calendar, so I couldn't see easily how you’d operate lists for different contexts (@Home @Office etc) within Scrybe.At the end of the day a whizzy interface isn't a substitute for process. The GTD process has become an integral part of my day to day approach to being organised, although circumstances sometimes force me off the path, temporarily. The achievement of stress free productivity will always remain more important to me than how flashy the toolset is.UPDATE 1: I've updated this post to add a link to the YouTube video which is well worth a look, even if it's for no other reason than to see a really classy example of a pre-launch video covering an overview of the product and some of it's distinctive features. As Michael Arrington points out this approach helps the company control the message in the phase before the product is launched.UPDATE 2: Mathew Ingram shares the sentiment that salivating over the product before it's released and we get to try it out for ourselves is a bit premature.UPDATE 3: Although Technorati seems to have indexed my post it seems to have missed indexing my tags. So the third reason for this update is to see if updating my post will get Tecnorati to pick up on what it seems to have missed earlier. If not I might get lucky and the blogosphere's most responsive CEO, Dave Sifry, might pick this up and help me out (again).Tags: Scrybe, GTD, Getting Things Done, Personal Productivity, Robert Scoble, Dave Sifry, Technorati [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Scrybe, maybe not Yesterday marked four weeks in my new job. I spent today getting organised, which was mainly about getting back into the GTD habit. So when I took a break to catch up with my blog reading I was immediately drawn to a post by Robert Scoble directing me towards the latest tool for getting organised: Scrybe. The blogosphere is eagerly anticipating the launch.The registration page describes Scrybe as “a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today´s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way. Simple solutions for some age old problems.”I signed up for the beta and watched a video of some impressive ajax trickery. What stood out for me, from watching the video, was the way you can get Hipster PDA style functionality out of the product via the papersync feature. I liked that a lot.However I don’t see this as a product that is in danger of replacing my Outlook / NetCentrics GTD add-in combo anytime soon. The lack of an email client, or integration with an email client, means there is no seamless way of moving projects / tasks / next actions from email to the to-do lists. Email is my primary source of next actions, so seamless integration is critical to my organisational process. To-do lists are integrated with the calendar, so I couldn’t see easily how you’d operate lists for different contexts (@Home @Office etc) within Scrybe.At the end of the day a whizzy interface isn’t a substitute for process. The GTD process has become an integral part of my day to day approach to being organised, although circumstances sometimes force me off the path, temporarily. The achievement of stress free productivity will always remain more important to me than how flashy the toolset is.UPDATE 1: I’ve updated this post to add a link to the YouTube video which is well worth a look, even if it’s for no other reason than to see a really classy example of a pre-launch video covering an overview of the product and some of it’s distinctive features. As Michael Arrington points out this approach helps the company control the message in the phase before the product is launched.UPDATE 2: Mathew Ingram shares the sentiment that salivating over the product before it’s released and we get to try it out for ourselves is a bit premature.UPDATE 3: Although Technorati seems to have indexed my post it seems to have missed indexing my tags. So the third reason for this update is to see if updating my post will get Tecnorati to pick up on what it seems to have missed earlier. If not I might get lucky and the blogosphere’s most responsive CEO, Dave Sifry, might pick this up and help me out (again).Tags: Scrybe, GTD, Getting Things Done, Personal Productivity, Robert Scoble, Dave Sifry, Technorati [...]

]]> By: Tony http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-69951 Tony Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:04:49 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/#comment-69951 I agree -- I can't believe the hype this got yesterday when all we're going on is not even a demo, but a video clip! I say, send out an alpha release like those Paint.NET guys so we can really sink our teeth into it. I agree — I can’t believe the hype this got yesterday when all we’re going on is not even a demo, but a video clip!

I say, send out an alpha release like those Paint.NET guys so we can really sink our teeth into it.

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-69529 Mathew Ingram Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:33:40 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/#comment-69529 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Mathew Ingram function tgb_closewindow () { window.location.href = "http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/"; } [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Mathew Ingram function tgb_closewindow () { window.location.href = “http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/”; } [...]

]]> By: Alec Saunders http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-69378 Alec Saunders Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:16:05 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/21/scrybe-looks-pretty-good-so-far/#comment-69378 Some more info here: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/disorganized-scrybe-it-down/#comment-2372 Some more info here: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/disorganized-scrybe-it-down/#comment-2372

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