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list-it

listit .. before you forget it! Listit is a simple Firefox-based note taking tool to help you manage short important notes to self. It is designed to be simple, fast and minimal so that it is easy to use and understand. All notes are kept on your computer in your Firefox profile. You can back ... [More] up your notes to a server, which you can run on your computer (requires Python+Django) or use our server hosted at MIT. Listit can also be used as an tool for human computer interface researchers to study the in-situ use of personal note taking tools. It is instrumented to provide high fidelity activity logging and aggregation/uploading of use data, which can be enabled if desired. These fine-grained timestamped logs of when and where actions were taken (note creation, edit, and access) so can then be studied later to understand note taking practice. getting startedThe easiest way to get started is to visit our main site: listit before you forget it -- get it here If you are a developer and wish to hack the source, go to the Source tab above to find out a way to check out the current release. Please also consider joining our Google Group where you will find helpful discussions among the core listit team and can post your own to contribute to the project. historyListit was created originally by MIT undergraduate Greg Vargas and graduate student electronic Max during the summer of 2008. It was designed as a successor to Jourknow, an experiment in creating a smart notebook for information scraps built the previous summer. In September 2008, Greg, electronic, Michael Bernstein and Katrina Panovich led a study using list.it, which will appear at CHI 2009. See the paper here. Listit and Jourknow are efforts to build tools that better capture and help organize information scraps, short important notes to self that contain valuable information. Our research effort into information scraps and other personal information management areas are led jointly by David Karger of MIT CSAIL and mc schraefel of University of Southampton. new! google groupWe have started a google group for discussing ideas, our design and development plans. Please feel free to join in the conversation or just browse. Also find experimental hacks that didn't make it into the codebase. contacting usPlease see http://haystack.csail.mit.edu for more information or write us at listit at csail dot mit dot edu [Less]