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by SecretofMana 5318 days ago
Since the landing page point has been beaten to death, here are a few things I think about the app itself after messing around: the keyboard shortcuts are awesome and just make the application fun to use, but the amount of real screen estate being wasted is criminal. With the window maximized on a 1920x1080, the taskbar is crammed to the left side while the rest of my screen is simply a gaping gray hole.

On the task management side of things, I tried to add a task for both members of a team using "$ @all task description" but it seemed to just go to my shortlist. It was difficult to distinguish, as a result, between different shortlists and the team shortlist. I was also confused by the presence of a lightning bolt icon next to one of my tasks that I might have accidentally added when messing around with keyboard shortcuts. The icon seemed to have no clear meaning and there was no helpful tooltip waiting for me when I hovered over it. I also wish there was some way to rank my tasks based on their priority.

That being said, this actually looks really cool, and I'd love to support it as the kinks get worked out.

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&! user here. Try it as a Fluid app if you have a Mac, then size the window to fit the app so it takes up the space of a slightly larger IM window. I actually zoom it out using Fluid so it takes up a little less space. &! sends Growl notifications for tasks and directed chat through Fluid which I like as it lets me background the app and still use it.