Near-invisible UI improvements

The newest issue of EDN magazine had and article explored near-invisible user interface improvements. While a user is spending time with the system, he/she might not mention little modifications done in the background by a team of developers.

"...expert foley (sound effects) is invisible to a movie viewer, until the foley is either missing or implemented poorly." [read it]

That reminds me the words of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, during StartupSchool conference held in March 2007 at Stanford, who have mentioned that they are doing little improvements to the site every day. Small patches of code are constantly added seamlessly improving the user experience.

Online Organizer

This is an update to my previous online organizer post about www.stikkit.com. After using it for a few months, I found out that some of the features were still buggy. Send sms reminder feature did not work with my Vancouver Rogers number.

One of the things that I really wanted to see with this software is the ability to clean up your emailbox just by forwarding emails to StikkIt (allowing you to safely delete the email) and letting the tool parse the keywords to add reminders, phone numbers, links, etc. However, it is not there yet. Email forwards just get appended to a particular note, but without the ability to merge it with the main one or, more frustratingly, to modify the forward.

I believe it will reach the perfection in future. In the meanwhile, I am moving to Google Notes, which also has the feature of sharing it with others, but no text parsing (making sense of text that makes StikkIt so attractive).