Merlin Mann's Comments:
Windy Chen
This sounds like a fun idea and nice extension of the Delicious Library idea.
I could see this being very useful for storing clothes out of season (”that coat I like is in ‘Box 9′”). Although, as a hobo, I wear basically the same thing every day, it would be really cool to figure out how to pack for a trip based on season, bag size, etc.
Nice idea.
Russell Heistuman
Potentially neato idea. Kinda like a cross between m and Dashboard? I guess the available modules for it would be the key. Hooks into web apps and hosted apache log stats would also be nice. Thinking about a range of things like the Backpack widget for Dashboard, etc.
Michael Yuan
This sounds really handy to me. The idea of integration with a retail store is sweet. Also the ability to spit this info onto a Palm via something like SplashShopper would be cool.
I like this one a lot.
Cameron Westland
This could be useful. People love weather pr0n.
I’d love this to have something like Google Map integration so I could draaaaag across the Golden Gate bridge and drill down to what the weather’s like in the Marin Headlands tomorrow. Ever see what Dunstan used to do with current weather on his home page?
Raven Zachary
My SMS skills are modest, but if I could use something like this to control devices at home, I’d be a happy little man. Hooking this up with home automation software/hardware and stuff like my TiVo would be a cream dream.
Jeff Greenberg
It won’t surprise anyone to know that a really powerful and flexible GTD-type app is something folks like me would welcome.
The problem with an all-in-one app is that doing GTD is a wildly blended process that involves — for most of us — physical stuff, computers, and our mind for starters. So, my concern would be that iGTD becomes just another thing I need to deal with each day — it couldn’t replace my physical in-basket or the index cards on my wall for example. One data point.
Mickey Wember
Anything that makes [pod|video|whatever]-casting more “Point and Shoot” is okay by me.
I’d love this to be almost like a screen capture tool (like Snapz). Where I hit a universal control key (maybe via Quicksilver) and in 3…2…1… I can just start talking into the camera. When I’m done I click again, up pops a box where I select a title and tags, then select which service(s) it goes to and I’m done.
I would totally use this.
Dan Lundmark
I like the idea of trying to visualize boring columnar data in unusual, ambient ways. Another approach, that’s a bit more ambitious (similar to multiple plants as you describe), might be to portray a _garden_, where the different areas (tomatoes, daisies, loco weed, whatever) reflect the health of different areas of your life. If you play to much WoW, the rose bushes representing your relationship with your spouse turns brown, etc. :)
Having said that, this would be a bitch to pull off — tools and their usage are not inherent markers of anything but tool usagee. So, for myself, I’m unsure how, e.g., email usage would fit into this. Ideally my plant would flourish based on _dispensing_ emails efficiently — and having my plant penalized for a day where I got a lot off my plate would suck.
Promising idea, though.
Merlin Mann
43 FoldersMerlin Mann is the creator of and primary contributor for 43 Folders, a family of websites about personal productivity, “life hacks,” and simple ways to make your life a little better.