My friend Jason Mundok walked me through this tool a few months ago and it’s really ingenious: SIMPLE and ingenious, which I guess is the whole point. This is something Jason uses to help make tough decisions about priorities and he explains how he’s used it personally in this cool little video. Definitely worth a look. And I love […]
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Going Mobile
We’ve made it easier to create new events at precise dates and times in DayBack on mobile. This is working really well for me as it lets me “roll” my finger left and right to get a precise date or column, much like I used to do in the iOS keyboard before autocorrect got so […]
Time Pressure Leads to Childish Thinking
Love this call out from an interview on NPR: So, if you want people to endorse hierarchical thinking, put them under time pressure or just get them drunk. They’re talking about research that when people enter low-thinking environments (such as when they’re drunk) they revert to mental models developed early in childhood: in this case […]
The Horizon
We’re thrilled to announce a new view for DayBack calendar: the horizon view is a great way to see all the events for a single project (or a single resource) when those events span more than a few weeks. We’ve chosen to call this the “horizon” view as we think it’s a great way to […]
Temporal Context Triggers
The iPhone knows who you are, where you are, and has access to your payment methods. It puts ubiquitous computing in context, and that’s why we’re still discovering whole new futures it might enable. What’s Next It also needs a temporal context. Not just what time it is, but the user’s temporal context: are they […]