We just changed it for the simpler: "LESS IS MORE".
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Attila is interested in the culture and technology of collaboration. Attila never likes to be bored. He is addicted to coffee, large cities and the Internet.
Also, if every team member could assign tasks, send requests and questions using this syntax, would that change your perception of this being a top-down management tool? Because our intention is to build a tool that allows a more horizontal communication among team members - but that's more difficult to visualize in a single video.
We are also aware of the cultural-contextual association of colours. This is one thing we are actually struggling with. While colors are a very easy and effective way to communicate status of tasks, especially to give a quick overview of many tasks - they have severe limitations, just like you say, red evoking associations with something as being "bad".
The video is supposed to show a use case of writing meeting minutes. Of course, making text legible within a video has some limits. But still, reading your (and others') comments make me learn that the video has became way too abstract and simplified.
Teletype and Twoodo are most similar to our app.
Our approach is somewhat different, more focusing on email compatibility, on the free text editor experience and more systemic. (We'll post about that later.)
We are thinking on integration and Trello'd be one of first choice. If anyone has other recommendations, please share.
The cool thing is that you don't need to get others to install anything just their email address. I am happy to see that this resonates with you well.
I comment on some of them: - Emailing will be automatic, people receive the memo via email and also access the full document via a link. - We thought on importing last week's items, and have options to bulk hide the items done etc. - Data privacy is definitely a concern of organizations, especially larger ones. That's a hard nut to crack.
Regarding your question about our target user segment. Currently we target coordinators, project managers and workteams but haven't identified yet a more narrow segment within that.
Actually you can try it out http://opp.io/app but there is no direct link to it from the front page. (It is less functional than in the demo video.)
So you could write in a very succinct way "@John please !phone client" like when you drop over a quick note on Post-It to your colleague-friend sitting next table. But you could also send as a more polite request, something like "@john, can you be so kind to !phone the client". Or what you just wrote "@John said he would !phone client and discuss requirements". These all refer to the same action: John should phone the client.
P.S. In the video we were of course limited by keeping the text as short as possible so it remains legible.
Basically we should be able to find _any_ piece of information that we have already encountered with anytime in our lifetime. This service is indexing this layer of information.
I would add another layer for information with which we engage more: e.g. liking, linking, sharing etc.
A simple and easy, but far from perfect, way to do this is to tie pricing to the location of the customer. E.g. 'download this book and pay as much as you pay for an espresso in your hometown.'
Would sign up for such a thing tomorrow.
Also related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416
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