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Helping people easily create, share, and collaborate on task lists and outlines
Public checklists: when and how to use
Creating public checklists is a very old part of Checkvist’s functionality, and sometimes we notice rather interesting lists that you publish. Recently we had a conversation regarding public lists with a customer. I think something can be summarized here, and as usual I hope that you’ll add your own examples and ideas to the topic :)
- How to make a list public? Public sharing is one of the basic sharing options, available to all users. All you need is to select an option in the Share dialog and then broadcast the link to your audience:
- Is it reversible? Anytime the list author (only!) wants to stop public access to the list, she can make it in the same Share dialog window:
- How can people interact with my public checklist? Can they strike the tasks out? Can they leave comments? Public lists are shared in the read-only mode. It means that people can’t change anything in your list, but:
- Anyone with Checkvist account can copy your public list for themselves, and after that alter it, complete, add notes, etc.
- Those without Checkvist account can export your list and then use it in other tools
- Anyone can kill a tree, and print your public list on paper.
Another way of sharing a checklist with people who don’t want to create an account in yet another web application, is to prepare a .PDF document of the Checkvist’s Print view, optimized for “offline” usage, and then share it on your blog, Intranet, etc:
There are many things worth creating a checklist :) Sometimes we ourselves “convert” public texts into a more concise checklist form, like a Product pricing checklist, and sometimes find examples made by other Checkvist users, like Accuracy checklist for journalists.
Do you know good examples of public checklists? Would you like to see a public list directory on the Checkvist’s site? Got any useful lists to publish there?
