I've been using a JotSpot wiki for a while now, to keep track of various projects, to-dos, articles to read, etc., but recently moved everything to Backpack to give it a go. Though I adore wikis, for me Backpack's speedy ajax (read: inline editing) won over JotSpot's feature-richness. Editing a page in JotSpot just took way too long, because you've gotta load the whole javascript wysiwyg thing just to do simple editing.
Then today, I broke down and upgraded to Backpack Plus — I simply needed more pages. I'd been cramming stuff into the free account's 5 pages but this morning it just got ridiculous. Congrats 37Signals — you found the freebie -> premium feature sweetspot!
(I would have opted for the Basic plan, but wanted SSL)
Don't get me wrong though, Jot definitely rocks, but it's just overkill for the way I was using it. It's an entire application platform, not a to-do tracker.
Update: Hehe. (1, 2)
2 days ago
For what do you use Backpack?
ReplyDeleteYay! A convert! ;)
ReplyDeleteHi Eric,
ReplyDeleteI work at Jot. This may be moot at this point, but we've been working on addressing the issues you mention in your post. Stay tuned...
This is just a small example of Ajax integration, and there's a lot more to come:
http://developer.jot.com/WikiHome/2005-6-23-JotspotDoesAjaxDojoStyle
Thanks for the feedback.
- Reuben
To use Jot, you don't need to load the full wysiwig editor, which as you say can be a little slow to initialize. As an alternative, you can set your user preferences so a fast-loading, simpler wysiwig editor comes up by default. Or if wysiwig editing doesn't matter to you, you can default to using a standard-issue wiki markup mode, which is faster yet.
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