Connectiviity Event Tomorrow Night

I'll be at the IIT-Knapp Entrepreneurship Center's Connectiviity event tomorrow night, so if you're going come up and say hi.

The lightness of txtful

The other day I came across an old post on John Gruber's excellent Daring Fireball blog that captures why txtful feels so light and fast for getting things done. 

To summarize he posits that tasks done on a screen feel heavier or more onerous based on the number of "nouns" or elements you have to deal with.  He uses the example of IM feeling lighter than email because you don't have to deal with the To and Subject fields as well as the Send button. 

With txtful it's the same way.  You don't have to deal with the address bar and all the usual form fields, buttons and clicks.  Just start a new message, type and send.  

Thanks for the helpful analysis and validation John! 

Shortcut Spotlight: Add a Gmail Task

Those of you who can't live without your GMail may already be actively using Google's new "Tasks" feature.  We love it, and have just built the "Add a Gmail Task" shortcut which allows you to add items to your task list NOW -- and from wherever you happen to be when those pesky "Gotta Do's" come to mind.

BTW, if you're not using tasks in Gmail yet, you should try it.  Go into your Gmail Settings, click on the Labs tab, and enable tasks. Then, come on back here to really make it fly.