In terms of UX I'd propose one small change. Creating a new post-it by a simple click is too easy and becomes too accidental. An alternative way might be best.
Also ideally, implementing ctrl+z/y for undo/redo would be a big plus.
Great, except people don't use stickies on a corkboard. They use push-pins. If you had custom push-pins, that would add something aesthetically. Also, if you could embed something on the corkboard, like a scribd document, that'd be very useful.
I've tried various to-do managers, notes apps, etc over the years. Everything from Google tasks to 37 signals stuff, Remember the Milk, etc, etc. Nothing has stuck for me.
Until this. Don't know what it is about it, perhaps the free form nature of the UI, but it is one of the tabs I keep open all the time with a big pile of 'to-do' items on.
My main concern is actually having it just disappear! I'd like to see the opportunity to pay for it just to know there is an account there and be more assured it will stay around.
Something in the $4.99 a month range would be a no-brainer.
Going forward I'd see the most important features to add as:
* some simple text formatting: bold, italics, bullet points.
* clickable URLs (opening in a new tab)
* a way to cycle throw the Z-order of the stickies, I keep moving them around to uncover the ones underneath
* fixing the weird bug where by new stickies appear off screen sometimes (Chrome 12 on Windows 7)
* Iframe integration -- let me create a sticky that embeds an arbitrary iframe. This would open up a whole pile of possibilities.
* Integration with a mobile app that replaces the corkboard metaphor with a simple pile of notes.
* As others have mentioned, it's too easy to single-click accidentally and create a note.
* Pasting a URL to an image isn't discoverable. An explicit button for this on the toolbar, or one that appears when a new note is created, would be better.
* That aside, I really, really want to be able to just drag and drop images from my computer onto the page.
* As others have noted I wish I could zoom out to see more notes. The "map" is a good start but I think it should be fully zoomable.
* Chat is cool but it sort of takes you out of the experience. Try experimenting with integrating the chat into the corkboard metaphor, maybe: Instead of a pop-up in the lower-left corner, let me create post-its that are actually live chat rooms.
Anyway, this is a great start. I hope you keep improving it!
Looks awesome. I small issue though: I tried collaborating with a friend and everytime I have to hit refresh to see the changes he has made. I'm not sure if this is intended.
Very cool, I wrote something similar for my company's clients to annotate various online documents. The UI on corkboard is nicer but I have arrows,drawing tools and you can rotate the notes around so text can vertical if you want.
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It would be fantastic if it had a Gmaps-style zoom feature. A ZUI of a sort.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
(I added this comment to the HN corkboard above but it got removed very soon afterwards!)
Edit: This was already suggested in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1963075
In terms of UX I'd propose one small change. Creating a new post-it by a simple click is too easy and becomes too accidental. An alternative way might be best.
Also ideally, implementing ctrl+z/y for undo/redo would be a big plus.
But good stuff.
Don't judge me.
That said, don't know if I would find something like this useful if I were to try using it.
Until this. Don't know what it is about it, perhaps the free form nature of the UI, but it is one of the tabs I keep open all the time with a big pile of 'to-do' items on.
My main concern is actually having it just disappear! I'd like to see the opportunity to pay for it just to know there is an account there and be more assured it will stay around.
Going forward I'd see the most important features to add as:
* some simple text formatting: bold, italics, bullet points. * clickable URLs (opening in a new tab) * a way to cycle throw the Z-order of the stickies, I keep moving them around to uncover the ones underneath * fixing the weird bug where by new stickies appear off screen sometimes (Chrome 12 on Windows 7) * Iframe integration -- let me create a sticky that embeds an arbitrary iframe. This would open up a whole pile of possibilities. * Integration with a mobile app that replaces the corkboard metaphor with a simple pile of notes.
Right now anyone can modify a board at will (can be vandalized).
Anyway to back up your notes?
Some thoughts:
* As others have mentioned, it's too easy to single-click accidentally and create a note.
* Pasting a URL to an image isn't discoverable. An explicit button for this on the toolbar, or one that appears when a new note is created, would be better.
* That aside, I really, really want to be able to just drag and drop images from my computer onto the page.
* As others have noted I wish I could zoom out to see more notes. The "map" is a good start but I think it should be fully zoomable.
* Chat is cool but it sort of takes you out of the experience. Try experimenting with integrating the chat into the corkboard metaphor, maybe: Instead of a pop-up in the lower-left corner, let me create post-its that are actually live chat rooms.
Anyway, this is a great start. I hope you keep improving it!
But definitely useful.