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  • Dozilla.io – Define your own fields

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    Overview The task management website Dozilla.io allows to define project-specific fields. These can be used to classify/aggregate tasks beyond the existing search and tagging mechanism. For example, create a contact list with separate fields for email address, phone number, address and other fields: In this example, the project-specific fields are “Email”, “Phone” and “Married?”. They…

  • Dozilla.io – Working with several devices

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    The overall idea of the task management tool Dozilla.io is based on unique devices IDs (this is a “machine ID”). Dozilla.io assigns a unique ID to each device (PC, smartphone, tablet, …) which accesses the webpage. This unique ID is stored in a cookie, very cryptic and very long – it’s not guessable. When the…

  • Dozilla.io – Notifications

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    Overview My task management website Dozilla.io offers notifications so you are informed about what’s going on in your projects even when you are not actively using the website. First of all: Notifications are available only in premium projects. Enable the 24 hour trial mode if you want to test it. There are four types of…

  • Dozilla.io – You can help!

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    I created Dozilla.io, but I need your help! Besides the obvious donation which I would appreciate a lot (see here for details), I’d like to make this site available in more languages. So if you are fluent in a language not yet supported, please contact me! I will send you a text file which contains…

  • Dozilla.io – The main task screen

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    This is a post which explains screens and functions of my site Dozilla.io. Once you drilled into a project (or a project was shared to you), you see the main screen with the tasks (list entries). It consists of the following areas: In the bottom row of a task you will see a series of…

  • Textpage.net – your own URL shortener

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    I had a problem with my (digital) paper-based note taking (on a Remarkable 2): I manually write down information, but sometimes I need a reference to a web page, e.g. a Confluence wiki, a Jira tracking issue or similar. I cannot easily add a link to paper. So I built a very simple link shortener…

  • Coldmonkey.com – a simple prompter

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    For users My colleagues were running a presentation in front of a larger audience, and I acted as (silent) time keeper in the background, giving them subtle signs to either speed up, slow down or explain something in more detail when I realized that the audience wasn’t following. I tried different ways: small hand gestures,…

  • Dozilla.io – Getting structured

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    There are different ways for organizing a to do list. The most common ones are: The Eisenhower matrix Invented by Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President of the US), this matrix divides tasks into four groups: In Dozilla.io, create a project. Rename the automatically generated “To Do” list and then create two more lists within this…

  • Dozilla.io – General intro & usage ideas

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    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: Just try it. And contact me if you have…

  • 99q.eu – QR codes made easy

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    This post explains the usage of my website 99q.eu, a site to build very minimalistic websites such as this one and use them for various scenarios. Underlying idea The main idea behind this site was: I needed a quick way to create a QR code which contains some basic information, e.g. my contact data or…