The Future of nActionr (It's Bright!)
The first month of nActionr being available to the public has just ended and the uptake has been pleasing.
The feedback that I have received has given me a better idea of what you, the people using nActionr, want to see in the product.
Outlook integration is being asked for by quite a few of you and if this is what is preventing you from investing time and money in nActionr then please contact me and tell me.
There's also been some interest from BlackBerry users and that is something I have looked into and if the desire for a BlackBerry version is high enough I will look at supporting this platform in the future (so let me know if a BlackBerry version interests you).
What most people who are reading this want to know, I suspect, is: "What are my plans for the Pocket PC version?"
Well, for starters, the next version of nActionr will contain a more expressive task list that will clearly show your someday/maybes as being different to your tasks. You will also be able to define Next Actions explicitly for those of you who, like me, can sometimes see all the actions involved in bringing a project to fruition and have entered all these into the system.
People who have purchased the full version of nActionr will soon be offered the opportunity to receive beta versions as they are developed. This will allow you to help shape the future of nActionr (as well as use shiny new features before anyone else).
I will create a roadmap for nActionr once enough feature requests have come in and I have correlated these with my own ideas.
I have plans to create companion desktop software as not everyone has the capability, or inclination, to enter reams of text via Pda keyboards (soft or hard) and this will also herald a Smartphone version of nActionr. In addition to the Windows version would there be interest in a MacOSX version? Or would my time on the MacOSX side of things be better served creating a utility to sync with one of the many good MacOSX GTD products?
Rest assured that development is continuing on nActionr every day, and do write in if you want to see a particular feature.
Posted by Jonathan Ballinger on Tuesday, September 04, 2007