Overview

Do you have to work with others on a to do list, a shopping list, etc? Dozilla.io is the solution – no installation, no registration, no costs, secure and anonymous.

Dozilla.io is your tool to jointly work on a list, without need for registration etc:

• Organize an event: Need to arrange a birthday party with a group of friends? Who brings what? → Create a project and share it (i.e. invite others to work with you).
• Create a shared shopping list: Need to go shopping to the supermarket, and collect input from the rest of your family? → Create a project, share it and let them write it down.
• Arrange a pizza session: Need to arrange lunch at the office and call a pizza service? Your colleagues send you their orders via email? → Create a project, share it, let them add their orders and just use the resulting PDF. Amounts will be summed up also. Works with Sushi, burger and whatever kind of services as well…
• Collect data from various people: Need to collect a list of addresses, e.g. contact data at school? → Create a project, share it and let everyone add their data.
• Split a bill: Need to split a list of items with amounts? → Create a project, enter items and add an amount for each item. Tag each item with the corresponding name; the item overview will show aggregated sums in the bottom row.
• Create a joint list of everything: Want to share a list of something with your friends, e.g. a watchlist of Netflix movies or TV series? → Create a project, share it and let your friends edit/extend it.
• Plan something large: Going on a weekend trip with some friends? → Create a project, share it and organize the entire trip, including chat functionality.

Just try it. And contact me if you have an interesting usage scenario. You can of course use Dozilla.io for your own to dos as well, without sharing a list…

In the following sections, I will explain some use cases in detail:

Organize an event

So you need to plan a birthday party, an event or similar?

• Create a new project at Dozilla.io.
• In the list menu, create more lists if needed, e.g. for sub-topics.
• Share the list to the group, e.g. by showing the QR code or sharing the invitation link.
• People can now read or enter tasks. They should create an entry and then edit it to add more details.
• Tasks can have due dates, reminders, tags and much more.
• Use the Comment-function at a task to protocol progress, latest developments etc.
• There are other features available as well, such as upvoting/downvoting an item etc.
• If you need to keep tab on costs, you can also use the amount field in a task. The summary section at the bottom of a list will show aggregated data.
• If you want, you can add project-specific fields so people can fill the correct fields in tasks directly.
• Use the chat (premium feature) to discuss topics. You can also run surveys within the chat.
• The calendar (premium feature) will show due dates and reminders on a timeline.
• If you want to restrict access beyond the random invitation link, go to “Security/Access” in the project menu and set the project to “Restricted” there. Then you (as the administrator) need to allow access individually per user (on that screen).

Collect data from various people

If you need to quickly collect e.g. addresses or phone numbers from various people, do the following:

• Create a new project at Dozilla.io.
• In the list menu, rename the automatically created “To Do” list to something more meaningful, such as “Adresses”
• If you want to keep the data confidential (so everyone sees only his own data), set the list to “private” in the list menu.
• Share the list to the group, e.g. by showing the QR code.
• People can now enter their data. They should create an entry and then edit it to add more details.
• If you want, you can add project-specific fields (email address, phone number etc) so people can fill the correct fields directly.
• Export the list to PDF once the data is collected.
• People can actually keep their data up to date also over time, because the list will not expire and will still be available to them. You will see changes (blinking briefly) when you access the list later.

Arrange a trip

No matter if you do this on your own, or with some friends: Dozilla.io can help!

• Create a new project at Dozilla.io.
• In the list menu, create more lists if needed, e.g. for sub-topics such as “Hotels”, “Sights” etc.
• If you travel with a group, share the list to the group, e.g. by showing the QR code or sharing the invitation link.
• People can now read or enter entries, such as ideas. They should create an entry and then edit it to add more details.
• Use the Chat-function (Premium) to discuss generic topics. For example, you can create a survey in the chat to ask for opinions on a suggestion.
• There are other features available as well, such as upvoting/downvoting an item etc.
• If you need to keep tab on costs, you can use the amount field in a task. The summary section at the bottom of a list will show aggregated data.
• Now it becomes interesting: Add project-specific fields, specifically an address field.

• When you add addresses to this field in the entries, e.g. for hotel suggestions, restaurant, sights, etc, you can easily see all these locations on a map (Premium feature) by clicking on “Show addresses on map”, either on the project menu (for all entries with an address in this project), or in the current list menu (to see only entries of the current list on the map which have an adress):

• The calendar will show due dates and reminders on a timeline.
• If you want to restrict access beyond the random invitation link, go to “Security/Access” in the project menu and set the project to “Restricted” there. Then you (as the administrator) need to allow access individually per user (on that screen).

Split a bill

My family and me were in some sort of beach club, where everyone ordered food and drink over the period of some hours. I had to keep track of the spending, as the waiter would just write down the orders and present the bill to me at the end of the day.

So I created a new project “Beach club” and shared it to my family. Whenever someone ordered something, he/she added an entry to the main list which described what he/she ordered and its price. The entry was tagged with him/her.

Example:

• Add a new entry “Coke +2.90” (this is the shortcut for adding an amount as well; here: 2.90 EUR/USD/…).
• Edit the task and add a tag with your name (or the name of whoever ordered). Once the tag exists, you can directly click on it when adding the task (it will be added as {tag}).
• At the very bottom of the task list (in the summary section), you can see the total (summarized) amounts and also split by tag.
• In this section you can also add a percentage value which should be added to the total bill (e.g. a tip); then all amounts will be adjusted accordingly.
• If you need to split an amount to e.g. two people (e.g. two people shared an item), just add both tags to it – its amount will be split accordingly.

The same works in a restaurant (when splitting a bill) or anywhere else where you need a summary split by some attribute. See a more detailed description here: http://stuff.frankdux.de/?p=594.

Create a joint list

I created a project for TV series / movies to be watched. The project contains separate lists for Netflix, Amazon Prime etc. You could also create lists for “Comedy”, “Drama”, “Action” etc and then set the Netflix/Prime/… attribute as tag.

I shared the project with some friends. Everyone can add his favourite movie/series to watch as a “task”, also with a more detailed explanation in the task details. The details can also contain links, e.g. to reviews at online sites or similar.

People can upvote/downvote an entry with the task right-click menu. Also, people can use the chat to discuss certain entries.

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