DailyTasks.net

I’ve planned for this application since early 2007, suppose to get a personal organizer on the Mac. I was a Plan plus (XP/Vista) user since 2004, but Franklincovey has no plan to build a Mac version, so, after I bought my first Macbook, I can no longer manage my daily tasks/notes like before.

The target of this application will be not only a web 2.0 online personal organizer, but also an AIR organizer for local native running. As online version will have to cost monthly money, also lots of challenges such as version control and syncs, privacy information security, the first version will be an AIR-only version. Simplicity is more important than perfect at least in beginning stage.

Personal organizer is very important for a guy who use computer/laptop almost every day. From year to year I found my information/notes/files lost in my hard drives/network drives. I have stacked 5 gigs files before 2003, today they grew to several hundred gigs. It’s hard to find old records effectively without a good organizer.

It’s impossible to build such an application to fit everybody, but at least I’m going to build one that fit myself first. Most free/commercial organizer has some dissatisfactions. I like Stephen Covey’s idea to organize, which other organizers’ cannot have, although I found most of things from Covey’s software are not so useful as I wish; I like the new iCal come with Leopard, nice design and good for much simple to use then Planplus, though it lack most of functions I want, and something useless too; I hoped FileMaker’s Bento can help to organize my informations to use like a database, I disappeared soon as I felt hard to find where I saved my records.

A better personal organizer will save lots of time everyday. I put this application into my high priority.

Now it’s in my design/prototype process. I like Apple designs, UI should follow popular application first, so I choose to start with layout of iCal in my alpha version. I choose pureMVC for structure of this application, pureMVC give not only the framework, but also some best practices, helpful for refactoring and future design changes. I found it much easier than before to create symbols with Flash CS3 to be used in Flex 3, simply export the Flash file to a SWC and imported in Flex project, that’s how Flex skin template for Flash CS3 worked now.