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New Productivity App

I, too, am looking for people interested in testing a new productivity app I'm developing for Mac OS X.

Let me know if you're interested!

Dan Grover
Wonder Warp Software
www.wonderwarp.com

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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I guess I should have...

I guess I should have said a little more :).

The tentative title of the app is Shovebox. Quite simply, it's an icon that sits in your menubar waiting for you to shove stuff into it. Here's how:

That website someone just sent you that looks awesome but you just can't check out this second? Drag it from your browser or the IM into Shovebox.

A good paragraph that just won't fit the way it is? Drag it up there.

That sudden crazy idea for a new short story? Press a key combination in whatever app you're in, and Quick Jot comes up. Type, press enter, and away it goes.

Then, when you've got a second, click on Shovebox and select "Organizer". From there, you can create folders to organize all that stuff in the Inbox section, OR just drag the items straight out of it to where they belong.

It'll be cheap, lightweight, fast, and always waiting there to quickly capture stuff you can't deal with now, so you can focus on what you need to.
There are a lot of features I've been toying around with that have the potential to be really useful, but I keep on having trouble deciding, so I figure I ought to talk to some potential users to get ideas, rather than the way I personally would want to use the app.

Some background on me: I'm a college student with a dinky Mac shareware company. My current major product is a little app called SimpleChord for creating chord progressions. I also have a freeware (Cocoa) game calld Otis out. Next month, after I finish up my freshman year, I'm going to be interning at a web company in the fine city of Boston and hopefully having enough energy left over after work to get this app out and improve my shareware business.

I've tried a lot of GTD/organization apps, and I've never been quite satisfied, so I figured with this I might try to come up with some better ideas.

Some screenshots (keep in mind it's very early in the development process and lots of GUI imperfections I haven't ironed out yet):





 
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