This past weekend, I wrapped up work on Listfoo 1.1 (which has been in work for a few weeks now) and released it.

Listfoo.com
You can login with demo/demo to just try it out - no registration required!

Listfoo is a site that lets you create simple, sharable lists for free. Basically I built it because I needed an online notepad that I could use to keep track of items. The first version, which launched early February, was an OK first release, but it was nowhere near where I wanted it, user-interface wise.

1.1 is exactly where I want the UI to be. It features extensive use of the scriptaculous javascript library and has a much cleaner feel to it. Even better, I've adopted a heavy favoritism towards inline editing - it's cut down the number of page views required to manage a list from 3 (edit list, edit items, view list/items) to one!

Although 1.1 was pretty much a UI overhaul, it was also coupled with significant backend changes. I've standardized all encoding to UTF-8, so international characters are supported on Listfoo.


A screenshot of the new listfoo

Listfoo.com is also the first of my projects to be tested extensively on FF 1.5 (both platforms), IE 7, Opera, *and* Safari! And it works equally well everywhere! This version just has a nice layer of polish the first one was severely lacking ... everything just works much better here.

It's simple and sweet. I'm really proud of it. So go check it out and give it a run ... and who knows, maybe you'll find it useful :)

I've used it to capture the Listfoo 1.2 and Listfoo 1.3 roadmap. I'm guessing 1.2 won't be ready until January, while 1.3 will be a March release (I'm trying for 3 month short, small cycles).

Posted by roy on October 30, 2006 at 11:16 PM in Projects | 9 Comments

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2006 at 07:03 PM
that not being able to drag after uncheck was a bug, and i should have fixed it now :)
Comment posted on November 2nd, 2006 at 11:55 AM
I've registered and I'm find it really useful for people like me who're glued to the PC all day. I'd like to make a suggestion though. If we could put like folders/categories to sort out multiple lists, I think it'd be great!

Thanks for making it really simple! :-D
Comment posted on November 2nd, 2006 at 12:50 AM
oh, in the TOS... yeah that's only so i can pull spam content (which i'm sure there will be plenty of) w/o having to contact the owner :)
Comment posted on November 2nd, 2006 at 12:37 AM
i'm a snarky fellow

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2006 at 12:37 AM
haha thanks.

i don't quite get your "possibly the only thing truly dodgy right now that's is "any content at any time with no notice." :P" suggestion?

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Comment posted on November 1st, 2006 at 02:17 AM
fantastic!
Comment posted on October 31st, 2006 at 05:33 PM
Sweet. Now I have the incentive to go update my listfoo lists.
Comment posted on October 31st, 2006 at 04:19 PM
as soon as I get time, I'm going to move my mission 100 list over to listfoooo!!! it looks really cooool (:
Comment posted on October 31st, 2006 at 04:04 PM
Looks fabulous sir, congratulations. It's good to see your hard work come into fruition.