/ rant
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.
Wednesday, June 10
