Comments on: Say Hi to Doris, Your Task Management Assistant

By: Your startup’s called…what? « Pamela Poole

Your startup’s called…what? « Pamela Poole — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:08:11 +0000

[...] A surprisingly great name for a web app: Say Hi to Doris, Your Task Management Assistant [...]

By: Doris is a hottie « Pamela Poole

Doris is a hottie « Pamela Poole — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:42:32 +0000

[...] has its own convenient and functional storage unit. Read more of what I had to say about Doris on Web Worker Daily and Salon.com. Don’t wait! Get a Doris account. You’ll also find her in the iTunes [...]

By: Productivity Power Links 02-03-09 « Geeks Guide To Productivity

Productivity Power Links 02-03-09 « Geeks Guide To Productivity — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:01:38 +0000

[...] Yet another web app claiming that it can make our time management fetish easier…Just when I needed her most, along came Doris, a free, web-based task management app developed by Seagull Systems originally for their internal use. [...]

By: Neosix

Neosix — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:26:17 +0000

Doris is really great service. But every time I want to see my tasks, I have to go to web site. For me this is not practical. So I use desktop application “VIP team todo list”, and it’s great.

By: techandlife

techandlife — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:03:52 +0000

I’d like to thank Demian at Doris for quickly sorting out the password issue with the program. I’m now fully password protected.

By: demianturner

demianturner — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:12:40 +0000

@ harryche2008 any chance you could email a screengrab to feedback@dorisapp.com, it sounds interesting

By: harryche2008

harryche2008 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:05:33 +0000

@demianturner Goalsontrack has a report page that can show exactly that kind of graph. It can show the amount of time you spent on goals, or different categories.

By: demianturner

demianturner — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:29:51 +0000

@harryche2008 this is a very interesting point. We very much intend for Doris to be able to track and manage meaningful information. We believe the history page a good start for being able to review what you got done during a specific week, but I'd be more interested in graphs that gave feedback like, "in march, 30% of your time was spent in work-related activities, 20% with cultural stuff", etc. If this info is not meaningful I agree it's pointless.

By: harryche2008

harryche2008 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:18:08 +0000

Pamela,

I think the thing about it is that many of us keep to-do lists and working on them, without knowing clearly what we have accomplished by completing all these tasks.

That's the original idea about GoalsOnTrack, so that you work only on those tasks/to-dos that move you forward on your goals, otherwise todo lists or not don't make much a difference.

By: demianturner

demianturner — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:10:18 +0000

Hi again, I should have introduced myself, I’m Demian Turner and have been working together with Dmitri Lakachauskis to bring you Doris :-)

@techandlife : just to clarify, of course your Doris account is totally private – what happened is your ISP or spam service blocked the email that was sent to you with your generated password. No one else can see your TODO items or anything else related to your account.

If you want us to reset your password please get in touch: support@dorisapp.com

By: Doris Blog » Blog Archive » Doris Featured in Web Worker Daily

Doris Blog » Blog Archive » Doris Featured in Web Worker Daily — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:59:32 +0000

[...] to Pamela Poole for the Doris writeup in Web Worker Daily – we got a great response and some good feature suggestions too. Keep ‘em [...]

By: demianturner

demianturner — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:35:59 +0000

Hi guys, sorry for slow response, here goes:

@techandlife – the forgot password functionality works fine, as does all emails sent out from our system, but it’s possible your ISP is blocking our mails or they got stuck in your spam folder. If you have probs re-logging in, please email support@dorisapp.com with your username and the password you want

@Ryan Duff we’re not going under anytime soon because we’re self-funded, no investors in the equation, and our only running costs are minimal hosting fees

@Leslie we’re keeping track of all requested features and will basically implement the most popular ones, time-permitting – stay posted and we’ll announce the requested features on our blog

@Joff – a feed is an interesting idea, we personally just keep the browser open due to the way the TODO data changes, RSS feed I think would be less useful, we’ll listen for more suggestions

By: techandlife

techandlife — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:55:32 +0000

Pamela, Thanks for responding to my point on passwords. I understand from their blog that this will probably be in the release version:

We launched a password protected version of Doris today (Oct 1st 2008) to select members of the Seagull community. Pre-alph - please help us crush any critical bugs before we release!

It's not really a problem for me - I don't put anything sensitive up there.

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:16:32 +0000

Hi harryche2008. Interesting idea. I hadn’t seen to-dos plus a goal tracking feature. Potentially very useful. My problem is, and maybe other web workers have the same issue, that my priorities change incredibly fast and even sometimes just disappear. I rarely end a week with the same priorities or goals that I started it with. It can be exhausting, but it keeps things interesting, that’s for sure.

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:12:08 +0000

Hi teamriptide.

Toodledo looks nice too, especially if you need a few more features. It's a good thing there are so many options, since we all have unique needs for workflow and organization!

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:05:33 +0000

Joff- Be sure to ask them about that feature.