Stikkit to Me
For the past week I've been trying out a new Web 2.0 tool called Stikkit. Stikkit is a site/application that allows you to create shareable, taggable Sticky Notes. That doesn't sound like much, but it has real potential. The application is still very much in beta, with new functionality being added every few days, so it's a moving target. Right now it features some basic, but useful, intelligence about what you write. Begin a sentence with "on" followed by a real date or a relative one (today, tomorrow) and Stikkit will make the note you're creating a part of your calendar (with can be subscribed to via iCal and other calendering software.
Preface a task with "todo" and it becomes a part of a a to do list that generates an RSS feed. You can post notes from your cellphone to the Stikkit site, search all your Stikkits and tell the "brain" behind the application to ignore certain parts of your note as it searches for meaning. Stikkit won't replace my workhorse database, Devonthink Office, as my tool of choice for heavy info-caching. Nor will it replace iCal as my calendar software. But, it will let me capture quick, useful notes on the fly, anywhere. So far, that's pretty handy. Will keep you posted.
