Help shape Packrat&#039;s development

The author of Packrat, the app that lets you download your Backpack information for offline viewing, is requesting feedback on his blog as to Packrat's development. Specifically, he's working on adding editing features to Packrat, and he's wondering whether users would like to see the app released with editing support as he's baking it in, or if we'd all like to wait until it's completely polished and ready for prime time.

If you're at all interested in (what I believe to be) the only full-featured offline client for 37signals' fantastic Backpack service (no, the widget doesn't count), swing on by Rod Schmidt's feedback post and toss in your two cents.

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Source: http://www.rodschmidt.com/2006/04/packrat-update.html

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The author of Packrat, the app that lets you download your Backpack information for offline viewing, is requesting feedback on his blog as...

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silence

J, aha, doing things. Like surfing the internet, shuffling the papers, reading magazines, chatting on the phone.

April 17 2006 at 3:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sight_unseen

Well, something I just don't get about the whole 43 Folders/manage your life with the power of the internet thing.

All the time you spend writing down things to do, uploading it, logging in later and checking off things you've actually done, all that fussing--- you could have actually been doing things rather than planning to do things.

April 15 2006 at 9:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David Chartier

I think right now the sync button is there because Backpack is specifically designed to be an offline client; right now you can view your Backpack info while offline, and eventually the idea is to allow you to even edit your Backpack info/pages while offline, then tell it to sync when you get back on.

I'm sure that in time it'd be possible to make Packrat internet-aware like many of Apple's apps are, such as Mail and iChat, but I'd bet that's a ways off.

April 15 2006 at 6:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stefan Constantinescu

See the sync button, that's got to go. It should just auto sync when closing and after X amount of seconds.

Almost 25% of goal reached :)
http://makemeswitch.blogspot.com/2006/04/10-away-from-25-of-my-goal.html

April 15 2006 at 4:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply