Apr 17, 2012
Posted on Apr 17, 2012 in Hints and Tips | 10 comments
This week, Matt Porter gives us a detailed rundown of a fast-paced arcade Flash jump-and-run game: Survival Lab, developed by Beast Games.
Overview
There is a small number of arcade style platformers that I find truly enjoyable, and Survival Lab is among those few. It includes the greatness that is platforming, the addictiveness of RPGs, and even the prospect of awesome boss battles. It may have its flaws, but Survival Lab is one brilliantly put together game.
Gameplay
The gameplay is simple: you’re put into an arena (single screen size), and you must survive. You need to dodge bullets, homing missiles, buzz saws, lasers, etc. These objects are all introduced as you survive longer, as things get more hectic. You collect coins that spawn randomly to gain experience points and level up, and these points can be spent on purchasing upgrades such as the ability to double jump, or greater defense.
What Survival Lab does right, that most games of this nature would fail at, is to give you decent controls from the start. Generally, when movement is tweaked via upgrades, developers make the mistake of hindering the initial controls, and returning them to normal via upgrades – this is a huge mistake, and often drives players away. If you’re going to tweak the core mechanics, you must make them good from the start, and even better after upgrades, rather than horrible to start with, and normal after upgrades.
The greatest strength of Survival Lab, is that it creates a full fledged game out of very little. There’s not much to the game, yet it’s greatly enjoyable. The game takes place in a single room, with just one boss, yet you have a ton of fun throughout the entire game. It’s extremely hard to come up with a mechanic that will work in such a way, but Survival Lab pulls it off. The most profitable Flash games for developers, are games such as this. You have a simple mechanic, easy to program, and you go all the way with it. Your programming is relatively simple, the game is relatively easy to plan, and the art assets are extremely minimal – which is a major cost saver. With far less work than the average Flash game, Survival Lab accomplishes more than most.
While the game may seem too simple to be successful, it’s exactly this that makes it so popular. The RPG level-up elements keep players addicted, and the simple yet enjoyable gameplay lets virtually anyone enjoy playing. The spaced check-points give the player reward feedback at a decent pace, and are constantly giving the player a noticeable sense of progression. Backgrounds change as levels go on, and this too contributes to the sense of accomplishment.
There’s also a neat combo system in place that is achieved by collecting coins without getting hit. This system does have a flaw in that the combo is reset if you miss any coin (even if you get another that spawned before one disappears), while one would think (and visually feel) that the combo would remain as long as any coin is collected. Either way, this system is a great addition to the game, and helps keep players busy. Rewarding the player is an absolute must for casual web games, and Survival Lab hits almost all the sweet spots.
What Survival Lab lacks is variety. The game is extremely short, and some places stay rather bland, which causes certain mechanics to be abused, or used too often. For instance, the ground terrain of the arena never changes, ever. Since there’s only one arena, and that arena is never physically changing, the few mechanics there are end up being used a bit too much. Bottomless pits, fireballs hopping out of lava, and everything in between, would all be greatly welcomed.
The other biggest flaw of Survival Lab is its lackluster ending. The final boss is an absolute pushover; he’s in every possible way too easy. I played the game again before writing this, and was able to beat him within five seconds on my second try (on the first attempt I was low on health from previous levels). This anti-climactic finish really sticks to players, and can actually backfire on a great game to cause low ratings. A player who may have only played half the game, and voted a 5/5, may finish the game, be annoyed at the ending, and vote a much lower score. It’s extremely important that you please your players all the way through, or that sudden disappointment may result in slightly irrational low ratings.
Graphics
The graphics are quite charming in Survival Lab, and are very well done. There’s not much to them, but what there is, is consistent in style, and pleases the eye. The backgrounds have a bit of polish, as they change color as you progress levels, which is a very nice touch. The player animations are very smooth, and some of them make you feel quite awesome, such as the roll.
The main improvement that could be done, would be to add a bit more contrast between objects and the background. With the background changing color, the red background leaves the homing missiles a bit hard to see, and with the yellow, coins quite hard to see. A bit more attention to this would make the game slightly more enjoyable, but it’s a relatively minor flaw.
With the overall simplicity of the game, there really isn’t much more to be done with graphics; they truly are done as should be.
Audio
The audio in Survival Lab is nothing amazing, but it gets the job done. The main track is a bit compressed, especially since the game itself is very small and has room for a bit more file size.
The sound effects are done quite well, and are very fitting. Everything in the game seems to have a sound in place, which is quite uncommon, despite the fact that it should be seen as an absolute necessity.
Conclusion
Survival Lab is, essentially, the perfect Flash game. It’s not the greatest game by any means, but it’s exactly what this industry calls for. It’s quick fun for the players, and quick cash for the developers. It’s simple, easy to create, but quite cost-effective on the developer’s part.
As developers, we can make Flash games as large as we want, but that won’t mean more money. At the end of the day, we’re almost always selling glorified advertisements, and the smaller the game, the more profitable you’ll likely be.
Parting Thought
While the game itself is great, it feels to me a bit too simple. It’s almost as if it ends before it even begins. I personally feel the game would be more enjoyable with multiple arenas, and a boss at the end of each arena. What do you think?
Your Turn
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Apr 10, 2012
Posted on Apr 10, 2012 in Hints and Tips | 10 comments
In a different approach to our series of critiques, this week Ashish Bogawat compares two similar apps for saving notes and keeping to-do lists: Checkvist and Workflowy. Vote in the poll to let us know which app’s design you prefer.
Introduction
I’m a big fan of information management techniques and anything that helps me organize my thoughts, notes, tasks and everything else. Although I’ve been using Remember the Milk for task management and mind mapping apps like Freemind for organizing information for a few years now, I recently stumbled across a way to combine the two. It was too good a prospect to let be, so I decided to dig into the two web-based applications that seem to the best way to do it – Checkvist and Workflowy.
At their cores, both applications are outline-based information management apps with varying degrees of task management layers thrown in for good measure. The idea is simple: you simply start typing and jot down anything and everything in hierarchical lists, establishing relationships and grouping common things on the way. Applied to task management, this means you simply note everything you want to do without having to in a multi-level list. Finish all sub-tasks and the parent task is obviously complete.
Now, both Checkvist and Workflowy provide the basic tools to do this, so I decided to give both apps some time and compare how they stack up against each other. Here are the results.
Quick and Dirty Knowledge Capture
Since the focus here is to enable quick and easy jotting down of thoughts, it is incredibly important for the apps to provide a distrction-free framework. And they do a pretty decent job with it – Workflowy more so with its sleek, clean and minimalistic interface. Once you on the canvas to start typing, pretty much everything is done through the keyboard: hit Enter to add a new item, Tab to create child elements, Shift-Tab to go back one step, and other keyboard shortcuts to move items up or down.
The basic difference as far as this core functionality goes is in how Checkvist lets you create multiple lists and then edit each one at a time while Workflowy gives you just one big list with the ability to zoom in and out of any part of it to focus on that section at a time. What’s better entirely depends on your preferred workflow. Personally, I like the ability to segregate different contexts into lists with Checkvist for task management, but the ability to zoom into a third or fourth level in Workflowy makes a lot of sense when I’m simply jotting down my thoughts and need to focus.
Extra Features
As far as features beyond the outline creation go, Workflowy remains pretty barebones. You can add a note to an item, mark it as done and that’s about it. You can share any part of the list with others and decide whether you want them to be able to only view the list or edit it. Changes made by other collaborators reflect in your list almost instantly, which is pretty nice. The one thing I love about Workflowy’s collaboration is that it does not rely on getting people to sign up for the service. You simply share a link with everyone and they can simply open up the page and start editing. That’s some serious non-intrusive collaboration workflow I wish more web apps provided.
Checkvist, on the other hand, crams in so many features into the simple looking package, it is a full-fledged GTD system in itself. For starters, every item you add is considered a task, irrespective of its position in the hierarchy. Mark all child elements complete and the parent gets struck off automatically. Now since everything is a todo, due dates can’t be far behind. You can use natural language for due dates – like “tomorrow”, “next Monday”, “weekdays” – and Checkvist will figure out what you mean. You can add multiple notes to an item, add tags, or invalidate it so that it doesn’t count as a task. The dashboard shows a list of all your tasks along with a visual representation of how many tasks you have completed – a simple but excellent progress indicator for each of your projects. And then there’s search and the ability to share a list with others for collaborative editing.
Unfortunately, more features also mean a more cluttered interface and a higher learning curve. Thankfully, I like the way Checkvist’s keyboard shortcuts work, making the interface pretty much invisible. You can do pretty much everything without ever touching the mouse. Unlike other apps with single key or Shift/Ctrl + key shortcuts, you use two key sequences in Checkvist: so it’s ‘hh’ for the home page, ‘dd’ to add due dates, ‘aa’ for the actions menu on an item, and so forth. It feels weird at first, but once you get used to it, things begin to feel very natural.
What Should You Choose?
Where Workflowy scores with its simplicity and clean interface, Checkvist caters really well to the power user who might find regular task managers too limiting and time consuming. Here’s my take on who should choose what:
- If your objective is to jot down things quick and easy, and you don’t really care for task and project management features, Workflowy is for you. It is simple, clean and best suited for information management.
- If you are looking for a different take on todo lists and getting things done, Checkvist probably has more than what you will need. It’s feature set and overall focus on productivity makes it ideal for task management.
I’ll reiterate that both apps bring a boatload of interaction design goodness and are worth a try at the very least. Go ahead, check them out and let us know your own personal take on them in the comments.
Your Turn
Based on this analysis, which app’s approach do you prefer? Vote in the poll to let us know:
And if you’ve got a browser app or game that you’d like the Activetuts+ community to do a critique on, submit it here. We’re looking forward to seeing what you’ve built.
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Apr 3, 2012
Posted on Apr 3, 2012 in Hints and Tips | 10 comments
Continuing our new series of critiques, this week Ashish Bogawat gives us a detailed rundown of a great web-based todo list app: Remember The Milk.
Introduction
There is no dearth of todo list apps on the web – or any computing platform for that matter. Being the most basic of productivity methods, todo lists have been the muse of many application developers, each bringing their own twist to the tale with some feature you’ve never seen before.
Personally, I’ve tried dozens of these task management apps in search for the one that does everything I need the way I need it to. Unfortunately, that’s still just a dream. So in absence of the perfect app, I’ve settled on the one that comes closest in my opinion – Remember The Milk. As one of the very first apps of its kind on the web, Remember The Milk has done a splendid job of standing tall amongst the competition that gets fiercer by the day.
For a task management app, Remember The Milk (RTM) has pretty much all the features you could ask for – lists, tags, due dates, priorities, notes, even collaboration and location awareness. It is available on the web as well as on the iOS and Android platforms as native apps. What I would like to cover in the next few hundred words though, is how it stacks up in terms of user experience. Let’s get started.
Simple, Quick, Powerful…
The RTM web interface is pretty clean and neat with a huge emphasis on giving as much space to your tasks list as possible. No jazzy graphics or unnecessary emphasis on gradients makes the app blazingly quick to load and interact with. All your lists are available as tabs at the top of the screen and you can choose from the settings which one should be open by default when you launch the app. A Boolean search is available with very aptly placed hints on how to make the most of it, and you can easily convert a list of search results into a Smart List which stays up-to-date with all tasks that meet the criteria.
The one feature that RTM nails better than any other task manager I’ve ever tried is the entirely text-based “Smart Add”. Unlike most todo apps where you click somewhere to type a task, then select a date from a calendar, then assign tags, etc., RTM lets you add a task and all its metadata in a single text field all in one go. Here’s an example, typing “Pick up the laundry on the way home #Personal #chores ^4pm *every friday !2″ adds a repeating task that is due every Friday (*every friday) at 4 in the afternoon (^4 pm) with a priority level of 2 (!2) and filed under the ‘Personal’ list with the ‘chores’ tag (#Personal #chores). Sure, the meta identifiers take a bit of getting used to, but from then on it’s pure bliss being able to add complex tasks without the need to ever touch your mouse. And yes, of course there is a keyboard shortcut (‘t’) to add a new task, as there is one for pretty much anything you need to do in the app.
For an app that relies very heavily on a user’s ability to remember and use all of its features, RTM does a stellar job of providing subtle hints wherever necessary. The ‘Smart Add’ input field has a ? icon at the end that brings up a list of shortcuts and thankfully keeps it open while you type your task and details. The search box, which is fully capable of handling Boolean queries in natural language, expands into a form if you are not too sure about the syntax. Rollover tooltips on the metadata of a task shows the keyboard shortcuts you can use to edit the details. Every time you perform a task, an alert appears at the top of the page telling you what just happened, with the option of pressing ‘z’ to undo the action if you suddenly realize that was not what you wanted to do.
Checking the box next to a task typically strikes that task off in most similar apps. In RTM, though, it merely selects the task letting you use keyboard shortcuts or your mouse to change its state or edit details. This works wonderfully well because there’s much more that you can do to one or more selected tasks – complete, postpone, edit details or view and add notes. Everything is again easily done via keyboard shortcuts. So to complete a task, you can navigate through the list with ‘j’ and ‘k’, select a task with ‘x’ and mark it complete with ‘c’ or postpone it by a day with ‘p’.
Design and Experience Shortfalls
In spite of all its minimalism, the overall user interface in RTM does show its age when compared with the likes of Wunderlist and Flow, both of which are direct competitors. The crazy popularity of Wunderlist in the last year or so has proved than sexy sells and my worry is that the lack of that finesse is probably one of the biggest hurdle for new users trying to check out RTM.
Other than the user interface, there are minor niggles here and there that mar the overall experience. Things like the use of the ‘#’ symbol for both lists and tags in ‘Smart Add’ can be confusing, while the need to need to go through each list tab to see all tasks can be irritating. The latter is a problem that can be fixed by creating a Smart List for ‘all overdue, due today and in the next week’ tasks and setting it as default, but I doubt that new users are going to bother jumping through the hoops to get this view going. That you have to add a location manually before being able to associate tasks is annoying; why can’t I just select my current location as a new marker when creating a new task?
The default behavior of “check to select” (as opposed to “check to strike off”) can also be a bit off-putting to new users, at least until you learn to appreciate the true power behind the feature. These are all minor niggles, though, and easy to ignore once you have given the app a solid try and a considerable amount of time.
Wrap-Up
So, RTM is not perfect by any stretch of imagination. But it does have that one trick that is so insanely addictive once a user gets used to it, it’s hard to let go. A bit of a UI overhaul to bring it up to the task with the competition won’t hurt, but other than that there is very little to complain once you have climbed the initial learning curve. For fans of keyboard-driven interfaces, especially, RTM is quite a treat to use on a regular basis.
Your Turn
What do you think of Remember The Milk? Share your constructive criticism in the comments below!
And if you’ve got a browser app or game that you’d like the Activetuts+ community to do a critique on, submit it here. We’re looking forward to seeing what you’re working on.
View full post on Activetuts+
Apr 3, 2012
Posted on Apr 3, 2012 in Hints and Tips | 10 comments
Continuing our new series of critiques, this week Ashish Bogawat gives us a detailed rundown of a great web-based todo list app: Remember The Milk.
Introduction
There is no dearth of todo list apps on the web – or any computing platform for that matter. Being the most basic of productivity methods, todo lists have been the muse of many application developers, each bringing their own twist to the tale with some feature you’ve never seen before.
Personally, I’ve tried dozens of these task management apps in search for the one that does everything I need the way I need it to. Unfortunately, that’s still just a dream. So in absence of the perfect app, I’ve settled on the one that comes closest in my opinion – Remember The Milk. As one of the very first apps of its kind on the web, Remember The Milk has done a splendid job of standing tall amongst the competition that gets fiercer by the day.
For a task management app, Remember The Milk (RTM) has pretty much all the features you could ask for – lists, tags, due dates, priorities, notes, even collaboration and location awareness. It is available on the web as well as on the iOS and Android platforms as native apps. What I would like to cover in the next few hundred words though, is how it stacks up in terms of user experience. Let’s get started.
Simple, Quick, Powerful…
The RTM web interface is pretty clean and neat with a huge emphasis on giving as much space to your tasks list as possible. No jazzy graphics or unnecessary emphasis on gradients makes the app blazingly quick to load and interact with. All your lists are available as tabs at the top of the screen and you can choose from the settings which one should be open by default when you launch the app. A Boolean search is available with very aptly placed hints on how to make the most of it, and you can easily convert a list of search results into a Smart List which stays up-to-date with all tasks that meet the criteria.
The one feature that RTM nails better than any other task manager I’ve ever tried is the entirely text-based “Smart Add”. Unlike most todo apps where you click somewhere to type a task, then select a date from a calendar, then assign tags, etc., RTM lets you add a task and all its metadata in a single text field all in one go. Here’s an example, typing “Pick up the laundry on the way home #Personal #chores ^4pm *every friday !2″ adds a repeating task that is due every Friday (*every friday) at 4 in the afternoon (^4 pm) with a priority level of 2 (!2) and filed under the ‘Personal’ list with the ‘chores’ tag (#Personal #chores). Sure, the meta identifiers take a bit of getting used to, but from then on it’s pure bliss being able to add complex tasks without the need to ever touch your mouse. And yes, of course there is a keyboard shortcut (‘t’) to add a new task, as there is one for pretty much anything you need to do in the app.
For an app that relies very heavily on a user’s ability to remember and use all of its features, RTM does a stellar job of providing subtle hints wherever necessary. The ‘Smart Add’ input field has a ? icon at the end that brings up a list of shortcuts and thankfully keeps it open while you type your task and details. The search box, which is fully capable of handling Boolean queries in natural language, expands into a form if you are not too sure about the syntax. Rollover tooltips on the metadata of a task shows the keyboard shortcuts you can use to edit the details. Every time you perform a task, an alert appears at the top of the page telling you what just happened, with the option of pressing ‘z’ to undo the action if you suddenly realize that was not what you wanted to do.
Checking the box next to a task typically strikes that task off in most similar apps. In RTM, though, it merely selects the task letting you use keyboard shortcuts or your mouse to change its state or edit details. This works wonderfully well because there’s much more that you can do to one or more selected tasks – complete, postpone, edit details or view and add notes. Everything is again easily done via keyboard shortcuts. So to complete a task, you can navigate through the list with ‘j’ and ‘k’, select a task with ‘x’ and mark it complete with ‘c’ or postpone it by a day with ‘p’.
Design and Experience Shortfalls
In spite of all its minimalism, the overall user interface in RTM does show its age when compared with the likes of Wunderlist and Flow, both of which are direct competitors. The crazy popularity of Wunderlist in the last year or so has proved than sexy sells and my worry is that the lack of that finesse is probably one of the biggest hurdle for new users trying to check out RTM.
Other than the user interface, there are minor niggles here and there that mar the overall experience. Things like the use of the ‘#’ symbol for both lists and tags in ‘Smart Add’ can be confusing, while the need to need to go through each list tab to see all tasks can be irritating. The latter is a problem that can be fixed by creating a Smart List for ‘all overdue, due today and in the next week’ tasks and setting it as default, but I doubt that new users are going to bother jumping through the hoops to get this view going. That you have to add a location manually before being able to associate tasks is annoying; why can’t I just select my current location as a new marker when creating a new task?
The default behavior of “check to select” (as opposed to “check to strike off”) can also be a bit off-putting to new users, at least until you learn to appreciate the true power behind the feature. These are all minor niggles, though, and easy to ignore once you have given the app a solid try and a considerable amount of time.
Wrap-Up
So, RTM is not perfect by any stretch of imagination. But it does have that one trick that is so insanely addictive once a user gets used to it, it’s hard to let go. A bit of a UI overhaul to bring it up to the task with the competition won’t hurt, but other than that there is very little to complain once you have climbed the initial learning curve. For fans of keyboard-driven interfaces, especially, RTM is quite a treat to use on a regular basis.
Your Turn
What do you think of Remember The Milk? Share your constructive criticism in the comments below!
And if you’ve got a browser app or game that you’d like the Activetuts+ community to do a critique on, submit it here. We’re looking forward to seeing what you’re working on.
View full post on Activetuts+
Apr 3, 2012
Posted on Apr 3, 2012 in Hints and Tips | 10 comments
Continuing our new series of critiques, this week Ashish Bogawat gives us a detailed rundown of a great web-based todo list app: Remember The Milk.
Introduction
There is no dearth of todo list apps on the web – or any computing platform for that matter. Being the most basic of productivity methods, todo lists have been the muse of many application developers, each bringing their own twist to the tale with some feature you’ve never seen before.
Personally, I’ve tried dozens of these task management apps in search for the one that does everything I need the way I need it to. Unfortunately, that’s still just a dream. So in absence of the perfect app, I’ve settled on the one that comes closest in my opinion – Remember The Milk. As one of the very first apps of its kind on the web, Remember The Milk has done a splendid job of standing tall amongst the competition that gets fiercer by the day.
For a task management app, Remember The Milk (RTM) has pretty much all the features you could ask for – lists, tags, due dates, priorities, notes, even collaboration and location awareness. It is available on the web as well as on the iOS and Android platforms as native apps. What I would like to cover in the next few hundred words though, is how it stacks up in terms of user experience. Let’s get started.
Simple, Quick, Powerful…
The RTM web interface is pretty clean and neat with a huge emphasis on giving as much space to your tasks list as possible. No jazzy graphics or unnecessary emphasis on gradients makes the app blazingly quick to load and interact with. All your lists are available as tabs at the top of the screen and you can choose from the settings which one should be open by default when you launch the app. A Boolean search is available with very aptly placed hints on how to make the most of it, and you can easily convert a list of search results into a Smart List which stays up-to-date with all tasks that meet the criteria.
The one feature that RTM nails better than any other task manager I’ve ever tried is the entirely text-based “Smart Add”. Unlike most todo apps where you click somewhere to type a task, then select a date from a calendar, then assign tags, etc., RTM lets you add a task and all its metadata in a single text field all in one go. Here’s an example, typing “Pick up the laundry on the way home #Personal #chores ^4pm *every friday !2″ adds a repeating task that is due every Friday (*every friday) at 4 in the afternoon (^4 pm) with a priority level of 2 (!2) and filed under the ‘Personal’ list with the ‘chores’ tag (#Personal #chores). Sure, the meta identifiers take a bit of getting used to, but from then on it’s pure bliss being able to add complex tasks without the need to ever touch your mouse. And yes, of course there is a keyboard shortcut (‘t’) to add a new task, as there is one for pretty much anything you need to do in the app.
For an app that relies very heavily on a user’s ability to remember and use all of its features, RTM does a stellar job of providing subtle hints wherever necessary. The ‘Smart Add’ input field has a ? icon at the end that brings up a list of shortcuts and thankfully keeps it open while you type your task and details. The search box, which is fully capable of handling Boolean queries in natural language, expands into a form if you are not too sure about the syntax. Rollover tooltips on the metadata of a task shows the keyboard shortcuts you can use to edit the details. Every time you perform a task, an alert appears at the top of the page telling you what just happened, with the option of pressing ‘z’ to undo the action if you suddenly realize that was not what you wanted to do.
Checking the box next to a task typically strikes that task off in most similar apps. In RTM, though, it merely selects the task letting you use keyboard shortcuts or your mouse to change its state or edit details. This works wonderfully well because there’s much more that you can do to one or more selected tasks – complete, postpone, edit details or view and add notes. Everything is again easily done via keyboard shortcuts. So to complete a task, you can navigate through the list with ‘j’ and ‘k’, select a task with ‘x’ and mark it complete with ‘c’ or postpone it by a day with ‘p’.
Design and Experience Shortfalls
In spite of all its minimalism, the overall user interface in RTM does show its age when compared with the likes of Wunderlist and Flow, both of which are direct competitors. The crazy popularity of Wunderlist in the last year or so has proved than sexy sells and my worry is that the lack of that finesse is probably one of the biggest hurdle for new users trying to check out RTM.
Other than the user interface, there are minor niggles here and there that mar the overall experience. Things like the use of the ‘#’ symbol for both lists and tags in ‘Smart Add’ can be confusing, while the need to need to go through each list tab to see all tasks can be irritating. The latter is a problem that can be fixed by creating a Smart List for ‘all overdue, due today and in the next week’ tasks and setting it as default, but I doubt that new users are going to bother jumping through the hoops to get this view going. That you have to add a location manually before being able to associate tasks is annoying; why can’t I just select my current location as a new marker when creating a new task?
The default behavior of “check to select” (as opposed to “check to strike off”) can also be a bit off-putting to new users, at least until you learn to appreciate the true power behind the feature. These are all minor niggles, though, and easy to ignore once you have given the app a solid try and a considerable amount of time.
Wrap-Up
So, RTM is not perfect by any stretch of imagination. But it does have that one trick that is so insanely addictive once a user gets used to it, it’s hard to let go. A bit of a UI overhaul to bring it up to the task with the competition won’t hurt, but other than that there is very little to complain once you have climbed the initial learning curve. For fans of keyboard-driven interfaces, especially, RTM is quite a treat to use on a regular basis.
Your Turn
What do you think of Remember The Milk? Share your constructive criticism in the comments below!
And if you’ve got a browser app or game that you’d like the Activetuts+ community to do a critique on, submit it here. We’re looking forward to seeing what you’re working on.
View full post on Activetuts+
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