Tuesday, October 27
Everyday I’m starting to get a bit more “fuck the po-lice”
Sunday, October 25
“ Christian Muñoz-Donoso is going to make this job pay, he’s got to move quickly. He has a list of 10 videos to shoot on this warm June morning, for which he’ll earn just $200.
Monday, October 19
“ Have you heard of Highrise?
I use it as my contacts manager and increasingly my daily to-do list.
That said 37Signals might be minded to include these features (or dare I say fixes) because at the moment it’s prettiness sometimes outweighs the overall utility.
So here are 10 desperately needed features for Highrise.
1. Count of tags
How freaking hard could this be to implement? Answer - not very. Even I know the SQL code for this one. Is this useful? Of course, it’s often the first question I ask when I’m filtering data.
2. Need a files tab
Locating files for deletion would be a tad easier if they were listed in one place. I wonder why they don’t give us that…
3. I forgot to BCC
I hate this. Is there a way to attach an email to a contact where I forgot to BCC? I’m just glad of Gmail’s undo feature.
4. Full text display
OK I’m on a contact. Give me a button to expand all text entries. Opening notes one at a time is plainly inefficient.
5. Which leads me to better search
If there’s a big weakness in 37Signals products is the lumbering search feature. I’d like to search the current contact only sometimes (and in Basecamp searching a category would be also be neat).
6. People are complex
They work or represent in more than one company. Some people even have more than one title.
7. Finding a contact
This is a bit basic but c’mon put the contacts search box on *every* tab.
8. Task categories should be clickable
There, I just said it.
9. I need more Cases
Arguably the one thing that makes Highrise worth paying for are Cases. Cases simply allow you to group notes/emails from any contacts into one place to which you give a name. For $12 a month I get 3 cases, 3 wrappers for my data. For double that amount I would get a whopping 5. I recall 37Signals saying they tried to give more than double the value when you upgraded. How about 10 cases for $12 to start with?
10. Gantt charts?
Bad joke. I only had 9.
I use it as my contacts manager and increasingly my daily to-do list.
That said 37Signals might be minded to include these features (or dare I say fixes) because at the moment it’s prettiness sometimes outweighs the overall utility.
So here are 10 desperately needed features for Highrise.
1. Count of tags
How freaking hard could this be to implement? Answer - not very. Even I know the SQL code for this one. Is this useful? Of course, it’s often the first question I ask when I’m filtering data.
2. Need a files tab
Locating files for deletion would be a tad easier if they were listed in one place. I wonder why they don’t give us that…
3. I forgot to BCC
I hate this. Is there a way to attach an email to a contact where I forgot to BCC? I’m just glad of Gmail’s undo feature.
4. Full text display
OK I’m on a contact. Give me a button to expand all text entries. Opening notes one at a time is plainly inefficient.
5. Which leads me to better search
If there’s a big weakness in 37Signals products is the lumbering search feature. I’d like to search the current contact only sometimes (and in Basecamp searching a category would be also be neat).
6. People are complex
They work or represent in more than one company. Some people even have more than one title.
7. Finding a contact
This is a bit basic but c’mon put the contacts search box on *every* tab.
8. Task categories should be clickable
There, I just said it.
9. I need more Cases
Arguably the one thing that makes Highrise worth paying for are Cases. Cases simply allow you to group notes/emails from any contacts into one place to which you give a name. For $12 a month I get 3 cases, 3 wrappers for my data. For double that amount I would get a whopping 5. I recall 37Signals saying they tried to give more than double the value when you upgraded. How about 10 cases for $12 to start with?
10. Gantt charts?
Bad joke. I only had 9.
Tuesday, October 13
“ The right to report parliament was the subject of many struggles in the 18th century, with the MP and journalist John Wilkes fighting every authority – up to the king – over the right to keep the public informed. After Wilkes’s battle, wrote the historian Robert Hargreaves, “it gradually became accepted that the public had a constitutional right to know what their elected representatives were up to”.
Friday, October 09
“ Our local postie even knocks quietly if he thinks my husband is on nightshift. RM needs to think about what it does better than its competitors, and it can only do that by valuing its staff, not demoralising them.
Wednesday, September 23
“ There is an estimate for the number of letters that each box contains, decided on by national agreement between the management and the union. That number is 208. This is how the volume of mail passing through each office is worked out: 208 letters per box times the number of boxes. However, within the last year Royal Mail has arbitrarily, and without consultation, reduced the estimate for the number of letters in each box. It was 208: now they say it is 150.
Sunday, September 20
Saturday, September 19
Friday, September 18
Saturday, September 05
Thursday, September 03
Wednesday, September 02
Saturday, August 22
Friday, August 21
Tuesday, August 11
“ The population of laptop loiterers has grown to include students, moms and, increasingly, the unemployed – anyone and everyone with a portable computer. And with the shaky US economy delivering some of the hardest hits to restaurants and cafés – where laptop use can boost electric bills to $3,000 per month in some places – coffeehouse owners are now limiting Wi-Fi access, blocking electrical outlets or simply banning the use of laptops in their shops altogether.
