ideaShrub Screencast

June 14th, 2005

I just finished up a mini-tour of the new web application that I'm working on: ideaShrub. The tour comes in the form of a mini-screencast for everyone to watch. This is my first attempt at making a screencast and I think it went fairly well (save for the lack of voice over and mouse cursor, but I'm working on fixing that for future 'casts).

In this tour I cover a couple different aspects of the new site:

1. A user's main profile page
2. A user's shrub list (and the Create A Set and Create A Shrub widgets)
3. A user's contacts list
4. All communities
5. All people
6. All shrubs
7. Options, straight to Profile Editing
8. A user's main profile page (again)
9. Shrub Editing (I saved the best for last!)
   This portion includes moving leaves, creating leaves, editing leaves, navigation, changing text attributes (bold, underline, strikethrough), indenting, undenting)

As a note, the application itself is still a long ways off from being complete - I expect to be making a lot of progress within the next couple weeks and possibly launching at the beginning of July.

So, without further ado:

Tags: mindmap, brainstorming, ideas, firefox, osx, screencast, ideashrub

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Idea Shrub

May 10th, 2005

I've got some good news to announce. First off, this summer I will be working for (my company) Juniper Bay, LLC full-time. The main project of the summer is going to be the Schedule Maker (mentioned before). However, before I continue work on that, I'm going to be working with Julia and Josh to bring to light an excellent idea of Julia's. To quote my first post to the ideaShrub Weblog, ideaShrub is:

An intuitive and easy-to-use outline editor and idea manager. Real-time collaboration on ideas with your friends, clubs, or business partners. You'll have the ability to quickly publish your ideas and let the world see them. You will be able to search for users who have similar ideas as yours, cite their thoughts, and collaborate with them.

Starting this weekend we're going to be working on this non-stop until the end of May, getting this out the door. If you're interested, just drop your email address and we'll let you know when we launch - or follow our web log and watch as the updates come in. This is really exciting - I'm not sure if I've ever been a part of bringing a project to light this quickly before, but I like where it's going. Stay tuned for more details.

Tags: outline, mindmap, brainstorming, ideas, idea

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