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Reactions to my Tech Meetup talk
Mixed review of my talk at the NYC Tech Meetup talk last week... from Scott Francis's blog:
I was much more impressed with the presenter and his presentation than I was with the product.
As presented the product is a simple online to-do list that distinguishes itself by being able to convert email forwarded to it into to-do list items. In my book this is a neat feature, but it's one that could be easily copied by any of the other to-do list services such as Ta-da Lists. Outlook already does what is effectively the same thing - to convert an email message to a task you just drag it to the tasks folder or shortcut.
He emphasized the popular “less is more” approach to feature implementation in selling the benefits of GoTodo. I agree in principle with minimalism, but I personally consider things such as RSS feeds to be a basic requirement for a lot of services nowadays, including to-do lists.
I appreciate the kind words, of course, but somehow I failed to convince him of my message - this is different from and categorically better than any productivity tool you've ever used. It's a paradigm shift, not a new take on an old tool. I must improve the explanation of Gootodo and bit literacy.
