Creative Uses for the API
Just curious as to what people are planning to do with the API. I've had a couple ideas:
Android/iphone/blackberry apps.
"Stress Level" indicator. ie I would put this on my website and if the number of tasks in my next list was more than 50, it would turn red so everyone would know that I'm busy.
Terminal app. It'd be awesome if I could just fire up the terminal and go
nirvana "return email from Steph". This could even save all your tasks when offline and then push them online when the computer connected.
Any other creative ideas?
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2 Posted by Proximo on 26 Sep, 2010 05:47 PM
Steven,
Having more than 50 task in your Next List does not mean you should be stressed. You can have 150 task in your Next List but your mind should be like water if you are implementing GTD correctly.
I hardly ever fall short of 100+ task in my Next List.
If you know you captured everything correctly, you trust your system and you decide what to work on based on your Time, Energy, Context, Priority. You should not be stressed.
Just saying.... :-)
I do like your ideas, but if I implemented your second idea, my "site" would be Red 95% of the time. :-)
3 Posted by Mark Monster on 26 Sep, 2010 06:55 PM
Yes mobile apps would be the interesting part for API usage I guess. I'm thinking about writing an app for Windows Phone 7 that will arrive soon. But time is still difficult. It's on the someday list.
4 Posted by Steven Heidel on 26 Sep, 2010 07:08 PM
@Proximo Yes I suppose so. With school though I need to switch back to reactive mode about once a week when assignments need to get finished.
Maybe one could make it smarter, changing colours based on the number of upcoming due dates or something.
5 Posted by Proximo on 27 Sep, 2010 06:01 PM
@Steven
Like I said. I like your idea a lot. We all have different situations that we need to deal with and anything that can aid us in doing them better is always a good thing.
6 Posted by Guilherme on 16 Nov, 2010 10:15 PM
Hi guys,
I'm new to this GTD thing and I just found Nirvana.
Although the Nirvana web app is beautiful and works like a charm, I don't like web apps for a series of reasons.
I think softwares such as Firetask and Things could sync with Nirvana.
I own a Macbook Pro, Windows desktop computer and Windows Mobile cell phone. It would be great to have an application for each where it would have system integration (like the services menu in Mac OS, plus integration with Spotlight etc), and it could also add "events" to your calendar (Windows XP and 7 don't have a default one, but you can always use Outlook or Mozilla's calendar to sync with Google Calendar, and Nirvana to add the events in Google Calendar), and the calendar software would remember you of your scheduled tasks etc.
Well it's not a creative use for the API, it's just a solution based on the idea of a local client for every platform (basically Windows, Mac OS, iPhone/iPad, Windows Mobile, Android, Blackberry and Series 60 - I don't know if Series 40 is still alive).
This would be much easier if Firetask or Things could sync with the major GTD cloud solutions - Nirvana included.
But oh well, at least I plan on adding stuff to my inbox on the go with my phone (I don't have a data connection on the go because it's kinda expensive in Brasil, just WiFi at home/work), and then organizing them with a Mac/Windows client.
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