Comments on: Blog Better With Backpack

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:37:45 +0000

I don't work with others so I guess I can see how the collaborative ideas might be useful. Not sure how cjd notepad works with separate wordpress usersâ€¦ I am come from http://www.thenotebookcomputer.net

By: Pete Freitag

Pete Freitag — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:20:00 +0000

I am starting to use backpack for organizing my blog posts now too. Works good so far.

I even wrote a shell script for adding items to backpack todo lists: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/449.cfm

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:29:00 +0000

I never got into using backpack, but at work their tada list is great. Trying to remember 500 things isn’t impossible now.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:33:00 +0000

Looks like everyone’s story starts out the same…

I signed up for backpack and thought, “Hey, this is pretty stinkin’ cool…but 37s really needs to work on their design skills.” So, for a month or two I completly dropped it. Now, I don’t know how I ever launched a website without it! I love the being able to just keep that open in a tab in firefox and add to my to do list things that need to be done.

Before, things always got lost in the fog. I’d be working on one problem, then run across another “easier” problem I thought I’d fix “real quick.” Two hours later, I finally had that bug squashed and had no memory of what I was trying to do before. Now, when I find a problem one a site, I just add it to the to do list and keep doing what I’m doing. Myself or someone else on the crew will take care of it soon enough and everything is well documented.

Helps amazingly with case studies too.

By: Ryan Campbell

Ryan Campbell — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:04:00 +0000

Just like you two, I signed up for Backpack when it first came out and I quit using it within a week. In fact, I haven’t come across a situation related to real life where I prefer to use it. For example, travel planning. I prefer to do that locally on my laptop, and have no need for “another organizational program.”

For some reason, it feels right for my blogging habits. Sure, I could store everything on an ftp site, but this just feels easier. Like Ben said, this may be influenced by the fact that we are a group blog, and quick and easy sharing is important.

By: Jesse J. Anderson

Jesse J. Anderson — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:55:00 +0000

I’d have to agree with Ben, I signed up for Backpack and thought it looked great, but instead it’s just one more thing to help me organize life that I never look at because in my unorganized life I don’t have time to check it out.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:36:00 +0000

I signed up for Backpack when it first came back and haven’t looked at it since. Is it clever… it’s alright I suppose, but it’s yet another login that I need to remember and yet another website to use when I want to do something with my blog.

I use a plugin for wordpress called cjd-notepad and put notes for anything and everything in there. This way I can just use my blog control panel to as a to-do list/ electronic notepad.

I don’t work with others so I guess I can see how the collaborative ideas might be useful. Not sure how cjd notepad works with separate wordpress users…