Why? Because some people do waste time on the internet instead of accomplishing their goals (talking instead of doing), and it serves as a friendly reminder! Also, for project management purposes, some may want a little extra help in tracking their time.
I would really love to get the following downloads:
I would like to have a simple options of Goal, Date started, Date completed/removed/failed, Date restarted, etc. I can then use this in my Omni, as I already do cut and past from the website.
Then I would like to have the following download in Excel, XML, or delimited text:
column 1: goal name (Add date, if you have the above list, is irrelevant, esp. as the entries themselves are dated)
column 2: entry date and time (probably n/a for the Removed goals)
column 3: entry name (ditto)
column 4: entry body (ditto)
column 5: goal success/fail/remove and date e.g. “succeeded on Jan. 31, 2008”
column 6 (optional tick box): keywords
column 7: goal URL or entry URL (then if I see something I might want to edit/remove on my public profile, I can do so more easily…)
column 8: anything powerful that the developers might know about that I don’t
column 9 (optional tick box): Number of Comments (Knowing that nesting of comments would make this a nasty download, I think the user should simply go to the entry URL so they can get what they look for.
the reason why is so that in the big files I generate I can sort according to what and when I worked on or succeeded on something.
Essentially, I want a power diary on my own computer from what work I have done on 43Things. Then not only do I have it fully available, I can see where I did well and repeat it. Also, a “someday/maybe” list for those I started and didn’t finish.
