Philip Ryan Johnson » neat http://www.philipryanjohnson.com Public Relations, Teaching Social Media, and Surviving Academia Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:10:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Why Vitalist rocks my world http://www.philipryanjohnson.com/2007/04/14/why-vitalist-rocks-my-world/ http://www.philipryanjohnson.com/2007/04/14/why-vitalist-rocks-my-world/#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:39:28 +0000 Philip Johnson http://philipryanjohnson.com/2007/04/14/why-vitalist-rocks-my-world/

Vitalist

The best part about Vitalist is the fact that they are listening to their customers. With the combination of their blog, contact page, and knowledge base full of previously answered questions presented in rank-order, they have the appearance of addressing users’ problems and needs as quickly as possible.

I complained in a few emails that their mobile version (www.vitalist.mobi) wasn’t working correctly on my new Verizon LG VX8600 and within a week they had set up a new version of their mobile page (m.vitaist.mobi) specifically for Verizon users like me. Yes, it was my phone that had the issue. But they discovered a way to work around Verizon’s problem. Flawless. Vitalist has an A++ in my book:

Sorry to not get back to you sooner on this. We believe the issue is with the Openwave browser on many Verizon phones. It only accepts cookies from a .com domain. We have created an alternate url for the mobile app at m.vitalist.com. Please try this address and let us know if it is working for you.

Thank you

Robert Walker
robert@vitalist.com

I know I’ve written about it before, but I just gotta say it again: Vitalist is my solution for keeping my ADD mind under control (or at least manageable). I’ve used other systems before my attempts to find a replacement for the executive function part of me that doesn’t work right—the control room or CEO of thought processes that involve organizing, prioritizing, and utilizing cognitive functions of the brain for important work tasks.

Well, I’m still using Vitalist as a GTD system that, well, just works. All my todos are organized by project and context (where I need to be to do them), and anything with a due date is automatically fed into my Google calendar, which then emails and txts me when it’s due. Vitalist also sends me a daily email as a teaser of things on my todo list. Love it.

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Delexa

Delexa uses traffic data from Alexa and del.icio.us to organize the top 50,000 Web sites by topic. Neat. And accurate.

Try these:

Whoo hooo!!!

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Coin Operated Alarm Clock

I need to get me one of these.

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