GOALS

• ten logs in one
• addictive usage
• seed the tagging behavior
• eventually trigger distinct possibilities

TYPES

• fun
• productivity

BRAINSTORM

• reminder
• goals
• action
• primary
• places
• people
• followup
• research
• truth

AUTONOMY. by metanotes.

how is a user supposed to know they have new time log messages ?

unless they check it all the time like i do ?

they should get an email notification, until they start using it enough that they turn email notifications off.

they might even want to set up their phones to get a text message – don’t know how that works.

to alleviate the problem of oh no, srini took over my timelog with his msgs

perhaps a tab interface to switch between “my logs” and “all logs”

although that can wait for when you do the “metaspace panel”

i can make a kloodge on the-time-log.com

a new user’s first log should be #1, the next #2 etc

the overall # of logs is interesting too but more as a marketing gadget

just a reserved tag, but would be nice

maybe we can have a tag-cloud in there?

it’d be great if the date stamp said 22 minutes later, maybe onRollover as a tooltip or something

yah

a google search syntax

an amazon search syntax

a 30boxes input prompt

etc.

having fun with this, nothing urgent

good enough for mobog

as well as for @Matt to evangelize among developers

i should be able to search my time log

that log should then be sent to that user

basically – imagine a “money log” being released sometime later (way later)

yep

yay

i’m imagining “switching to chat mode” in order to keep one’s log from getting too cluttered with chatty conversations

plus to work with gchat would build another bridge to google

would be so cool to have the time log drop down from any screen.

also to have any text selected to be copied into the prompt :)

can be “someday”

mustn’t interfere with the coolness on the very basic PalmOS

not sure how this will work exactly, we’ll think about it

i can ad-hoc something, but i’m thinking something along the lines of the “users” menu

there’s a vision here i’m contemplating:

• the number of different users that a given user direct-messages is a variable.
• the higher this number, the more “influential” the user.
• the list of users should be sorted by this number
  • this way the most popular users will become yet more popular
  • they will feel so cool for being high up on the leaderboard
  • they will do the work of welcoming new users onto the system for us :)

just to keep the log’s ID# distinct

how many logs does everyone have ? how many characters or words ? hahaha

might be overkill

but it’d be great if my “work” timelogs were in a blue scheme, my “reading notes” in a red theme, my “fun notes” in a green theme etc.

one dropdown box to say “log color” is all you need, nothing fancy

sounds like the iframe thing is good enough

although it’d be great to leverage the social graph somehow etc

would be a great bridge to students

we’d need to monetize within the app

I just got to announce the Google AJAX Libraries API which exists to make Ajax applications that use popular frameworks such as Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo, and MooTools faster and easier for developers.

Whenever I wrote an application that uses one of these frameworks, I would picture a user accessing my application, having 33 copies of prototype.js, and yet downloading yet another one from my site. It would make me squirm. What a waste!

At the same time, I was reading research from Steve Souders and others in the performance space that showed just how badly we are doing at providing these libraries. As developers we should setup the caching correctly so we only send that file down when absolutely necessary. We should also gzip the files to browsers that accept them. Oh, and we should probably use a minified version to get that little bit more out of the system. We should also follow the practice of versioning the files nicely. Instead, we find a lot of jquery.js files with no version, that often have little tweaks added to the end of the fils, and caching is not setup well at all so the file keeps getting sent down for no reason.

When I joined Google I realised that we could help out here. What if we hosted these files? Everyone would see some instant benefits:

• Caching can be done correctly, and once, by us… and developers have to do nothing
• Gzip works
• We can serve minified versions
• The files are hosted by Google which has a distributed CDN at various points around the world, so the files are “close” to the user
• The servers are fast
• By using the same URLs, if a critical mass of applications use the Google infrastructure, when someone comes to your application the file may already be loaded!
• A subtle performance (and security) issue revolves around the headers that you send up and down. Since you are using a special domain (NOTE: not google.com!), no cookies or other verbose headers will be sent up, saving precious bytes.

This is why we have released the AJAX Libraries API. We sat down with a few of the popular open source frameworks and they were all excited about the idea, so we got to work with them, and now you have access to their great work from our servers.

if i put @ekai in the tags prompt, it should BCC eddie.

in other words, @ekai shouldn’t show up in the actual tags field; it should be secret that i copied him.

only a thumbnail should be displayed in the actual logstream

click it to see the image in a new screen (or to send the image into a metanote maybe)

so that it says ”...” when you have a very long time log entry instead of displaying the whole thing

and you double-click the entry to expand it

that way it becomes a way cooler save-this-content tool

the first dropdown = state-sanctioned tags

the second dropdown = the last ten tags you used

they’re all on the same line; you can make the “tags” line even narrower

eddie wanted to “send to twitter” too

if that’s easy

Want to congratulate you on excellent work on the TIME LOG.

so with the certificate thing, we’re ready to market.

so here’s some more thoughts on the Time Log now that we’ve reached this happy milestone !

No particular pressure on these, because once again, we’re ready to market. But if you make anything on this page happen it’ll make me smile :)