Use Hiveminder on your iPhone with iMinder by Shawn M Moore on 2009-06-03 18:33:17 (permalink)

One of our users, Kris Arnold, has published a (free!) iPhone app, iMinder, for interacting with Hiveminder. Now using Hiveminder offline is even easier. It has a slick interface and keeps your task list synced. It's available on the App Store.

Here's what you see when you start iMinder:

You can edit tasks very easily:

You can read more about iMinder at our blog and @iminderapp on Twitter.

Task bar now at the top by Shawn M Moore on 2009-05-18 18:31:05 (permalink)

You may have noticed that in our standard web interface, the "new task" bar now greets you at the top of the page. We feel this is an important usability improvement. Having to scroll down to the bottom of the page to add new tasks was annoying enough that people were less likely to do it for tiny tasks, making Hiveminder a little less useful.

We have some design ideas that this change enables, but we want to start small. Please give us your feedback about whether you like this change or not, and how we can make it work even better for you.

This evening there was a small glitch in the web interface, but that should be fixed now. Sorry about that!

Calendars that start on Monday by Shawn M Moore on 2009-03-19 12:37:56 (permalink)

Many of our international users have requested that we allow calendars, which pop up when you edit a starts or due date, to start on Monday instead of Sunday. You can now enable this by going to your preferences (under the Tools menu) and checking off the box next to "Calendar starts on Monday?"

Google Talk IM outage by Alex Vandiver on 2009-01-30 16:57:19 (permalink)

If you're using Google Talk to chat with hmtasks on jabber, you may have had problems over the past couple days. Google's IM servers had gotten overzealously picky, and it took us a bit to adapt our servers to cope. You may need to log out of your IM client, and back in again, in order for hmtasks@hiveminder.com to show up on your buddy list.

IM oddness by Shawn M Moore on 2009-01-08 13:31:02 (permalink)

The past few days have seen some strange IM behavior, such as filters not sticking. These should now be fixed, but please let us know if any problems persist. Sorry about that.

Spinning Bee Outage by Jesse Vincent on 2008-10-03 10:00:57 (permalink)

We're currently tracking an issue with the Hiveminder Bee not vanishing after you perform an update. More details as we have them.

edit: We tracked it down and fixed it. There was a bug in our JavaScript. Thanks to all who reported seeing infinitely spinning bees. Sorry about that!

Please let us know if you see any other oddness in the site.

Hiveminder is waiting for your call by Shawn M Moore on 2008-08-13 16:28:16 (permalink)

One of my favorite things about Hiveminder is the number and variety of systems it can talk to. Since we launched, we've wanted a way for you to be able to talk to Hiveminder.

We've just integrated Jott.com with Hiveminder. Jott is the "missing link" service that lets you dictate notes from your mobile phone. You can send email, add items to your calendar, and now you can put items on your Hiveminder todo list.

Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, Hiveminder is now just a phone call away:

1. Call 1-866-JOTT-123
2. Say "Hiveminder"
3. Then say your task. "Take out the garbage tomorrow"

Jott will transcribe your note, send it along to Hiveminder, and we'll create the task for you. You'll be able to listen to a recording of your note, so you don't need to worry about hard to understand words.

If you want, you can give all Jott tasks from your office phone the [work] tag. Just link your Jott account to a specific Hiveminder tasks by email address to automatically set tags, due dates and everything else we support in those [square brackets].

Setting up Hiveminder to work with Jott only takes a moment. Try it out today.

Time tracking (beta) with Hiveminder by Thomas Sibley on 2008-06-13 11:14:24 (permalink)

Today we're releasing time tracking as a new Hiveminder Pro beta feature. (If you read to the end of this post, you can save a few bucks when you sign up for Pro.)

Time tracking in Hiveminder lets you estimate the time left for a task and record when and how long you work on it. These numbers are useful as a measure of completion and for tracking billable hours. Once you've started using time tracking, Hiveminder can generate reports that show how well you track time.

Handy stopwatches for each task make it easy to keep track of your time as you work.

Reports per task and for any tasklist provide a way to see how much time is left and who has worked on the task.

Learn more about how to use time tracking in our online help.

Time tracking is a new feature for us that hasn't seen a lot of usage yet, so we're not sure how it'll work for everyone. (This is why we're calling it a beta feature.) We'll be improving and refining it as time goes on and we use it more, but we also want your feedback. As always, we're very open to all comments and suggestions for improvement. Let us know using the feedback box on every page what parts of time tracking work for you and what parts don't.

If you decide to sign up for Hiveminder Pro to try out this beta feature in the next month, use the coupon TIMETRACKINGBETA to get 10$ off!

Jabber bot is now hmtasks@hiveminder.com by Shawn M Moore on 2008-05-08 00:04:53 (permalink)

Unfortunately, our Jabber bot has been down an awful lot lately (due to difficulties over at jabber.org). Because we enjoy using the bot as much as you folks do, we decided to move it to hmtasks@hiveminder.com.

We'll be keeping hmtasks@jabber.org around for at least a little while, but you should switch over soon.

We're now running a full Jabber server, but we aren't sure what to do with it (beyond hmtasks). Let us know if you have any ideas!

Show your longer lists on a single page by Jesse Vincent on 2008-04-03 16:42:07 (permalink)

We've just made a small, long overdue, change that many of you should find quite refreshing. (Ok, it will mean that you'll find Hiveminder to require less refreshing, but what's a small semantic quibble among friends?

We've bumped up the number of entries on your tasklist pages to 20. At the same time, if you visit your preferences, you'll find a new "tasks per page" setting. You can now tell Hiveminder to show you 10, 20, 50 tasks per page. Or you can do away with paging entirely and have Hiveminder just show all tasks on a single page.