Checkvist story
Helping people easily create, share, and collaborate on task lists and outlines
Notes re-worked, Gravatar, and fixes, fixes, fixes
This server update is many times more difficult for us and might be less impressive to you (especially taking into consideration how much we’ve spent on it).
But it’s typical for technical updates: you struggle updating the server backend like a galley slave, and all you hope to see on the application surface is “wow! it still works”. If you’re a Ruby & RoR enthusiast, you can read more details in the Kir’s blog
But three weeks is three weeks and with your help and feedback we’ve been busy not only with deep server diving:
- Notes re-worked We made notes “a first-class citizen”, with full keyboard navigation, Undo for note deletion and a lighter look. Notes are personal remarks to the list item, that’s why it’s useful to see who’s added them. And with Gravatar picture you can see it at once.
- Gravatar integration Gravatar is a popular free service that let’s you upload your avatar picture once and then see it on vast number of other online services, blogs, etc. In Checkvist we show your avatar picture with your notes and in the Share dialog, but only if a list is shared, i.g. when you might need to distinguish who adds what to the list.
We’ll also need it for some new features… you’ll see :) - Ctrl+J/K to move tasks up and down the list, just like Ctrl+ ↑ ↓, feature demanded by our keyboard-addicted users :)
Fixes!
- Changed behaviour for ↑ ↓ arrow keys, now they don’t “rotate” after you’ve hit the last or the first list item. If you like the way it was done before, use Home and End buttons.
- Fixed the login problem, thanks @stowball
- Fixed a list layout problem in Fluid app. Thanks, Eric
- Fixed the bug with searching for “changed:yesterday” items, thanks a lot, Kevin, for helping with GMT -7 testing :)
- Fixed the public list login problem (they shouldn’t require any login)
- Extended the API once again for a company who’s working on the Checkvist desktop companion for Mac. We’ll be the first alpha-testers, and will share the impressions once we have them :)
And as usual, we’d like to thank all of you who writes us with their suggestions, ideas and bug reports. Now Checkvist has a Google+ page, which seems a good place for discussions, that are not a true blog post yet, but won’t fit the 140 twitter characters either. Join in!
