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So, if you could request from a web development company any website at all, to do anything (within the bounds of current technology, mind) what would you ask for?
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In it you can list current projects, have a queue of stuff you plan to do, wool you have (which you can later link to projects, though when you say how much you've used it doesn't say how much you've left) what needles you have, all sorts of useful stuff.
Cleverly they started off with a small core of members and slowly grew it.
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I want to keep track of all my craft projects and supplies- bead, paper, yarn, whatever. I want the ravelry feature of importing photos from flickr. I like that you can import blog posts, but I think I'd like some simple blogging per item built in. A feature I would like for a general craft site would be to be able to feed one project into another, eg one project could create some beads that another could use. Privacy choices would be nice too. On ravelry, everything is for members only - you can't make them available publicly.
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See my two posts on 43things: http://www.43things.com/entries/view/2928415 and http://www.43things.com/entries/view/2966317. And currently, I'm half-heartedly keeping track of things on 43 things: http://www.43things.com/things/view/473084/use-the-craft-stuff-i-already-have and http://www.43things.com/things/view/190745/finish-all-the-craft-projects-ive-started
I reckon the simplest thing I'd be satisfied with would be a site where you could enter lists, with items tied to flickr photos.
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But more generally, it does seem to be one of those addictive, stash creating hobbies.
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I think there is a British one, which would do me, but I want something free. While there are a handful of sites I pay for, I don't think there's anything I gave money to without already using it for a while. If you want money from people like me, you have to have free basic accounts and better-featured paid accounts, like livejournal, flickr, bookcrossing.
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Hierarchical and/or tagged task management with easy adding of new sub or related tasks - because every to do list tool out there is hopeless at sub-tasks. I've never started a task that hasn't spawned sub-tasks
better status options - tasks are never to do or done; they often become "waiting on a reply from Joe" or such like. So decent Next Action management.
solid intergration with ical, gmail, other email; good mobile interface - a J2ME app that I can set to be no more than 2 clicks from unlocking my mobile. (not so easy!)
easy to empty my mind into notes I can organise into tasks later
Good handling of repeated tasks (give the dog her arthritis meds) or shopping lists (I'm in the hardware store - what do I need here?)
easy to find completed tasks later so I can get back the notes I added to them - like Pete's Email or the web companies bank details that vanished when I clicked Complete! on that task
There are some good to do lists and task mangers online, but none are quite 100% yet. I use Remember the Milk, I tried Nozbe and several others. RtM is the bet at present, but there is always room to do better. Someone really needs t get outside the business environment and talk to a few hundred householders, schoolkids and small business owners to see how they actually organise stuff.
Other things I'd like on the web - Google Docs to sync spreadsheets as well as documents. Zotero to have its server version up.
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http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080812&mode=classic
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I wrote a long comment saying precisely what I'd want such a site to do (I've been thinking about this for years - it's very detailed), but bastard LJ ate it. If you're interested, let me know and I'll be happy to elucidate!
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The site I linked to last night - as far as I can tell from a quick rummage - allows me to plan meals for a given number of days, then generate (and lightly modify) a shopping list of the ingredients for those meals. That's handy, but I want more functionality.
For instance, I buy plenty of things that aren't tied to my dinner menu - breakfast foods, snack foods, non-food household stuff, pharmaceuticals, etc. My ideal site would allow me to add these to a given list, and save them to my uber-list if I chose.
I'd also be able to decouple meals from specific dates - so I dould plan, say, a week's worth of dinners, but then choose from the list each evening depending on energy levels or other contingencies. (This is what we do on paper at present; it works well.)
My list would be highly customisable: I would divide it according to the various places I shop, and even arrange items in the order in which I encounter them on the shop floor (scoff if you will - I used to do this before Superquinn facelifted itself, and it was bloody convenient!). List items would be editable, e.g. to specify a brand.
The one bit I don't see clearly is the recipe handling. The Shopping Planner site seems to rely on its users to input recipes to its own database. That seems clunky, from a user point of view. Surely there's a better way to exploit existing recipe information, both online and offline. Then there's plenty of other relevant information out there - for instance, a "what's in season in my region?" function could be handy.
The site would remember my choices in detail. For instance, if I used the system for more than a year, it might prompt me with an option to use a week's menu from this time last year. It might suggest other recipes based on my most commonly used ingredients (this assumes a community of users inputting recipes, I suppose). I might even be able to specify family likes and dislikes to refine that function further.
I imagine you're getting the idea. The comment that LJ ate last night was more elegant, concise, impassioned, etc. than this one, but the substance was basically similar. I'd be surprisingly keen on helping to see this through, if you ever decided to do it.