Balaji’s Blog

Reworking my Blog To-Do List

So Backpack is one of those websites that’s everywhere when you read about the whole “Web2.0″ movement. While I’ve looked it over, I never really got why someone would use Backpack.

It finally hit me today that Backpack was probably a better place for me to maintain my blog To-Do lists. While I have been talking about starting to use GTD, that will take some time and I’m not sure even if I start using GTD, I want to migrate this list into GTD.

So I’ve spent some time today actually migrating my Blog To-Do list into Backpack and you can see the results here.

Having spent some time with it now, I’d say Basecamp is pretty cool but it isn’t anything I haven’t seen by now. Why do I think so? Let’s just quickly review the “big” features that Backpack talks about:

1. AJAX : Which is everywhere by now, so it’s not as impressive
2. Textile : While this is nice, it’s not too instinctive and can be confusing
3. Sharing : Again, it’s in every Web2.0 site out there now
4. Reminders : Any number of calendaring services from 30boxes to the new Google Calendar. And they all have the iCal support built in

I guess what keeps Basecamp cool is the concept of pages where you can put everything from lists to random notes in, as well as writeboards which is essentially shared workspaces. To sum it up, Backpack is cool, but it ain’t that cool anymore.

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