April has been a great month with new stuff and improvements for the existing ones. More new people started using Deskhot and the number of stored bookmarks is about to hit the first milestone. I have installed analytics on Deskhot in an effort to get more information on the way people use it and make future improvements based on real-world usage.  Besides these and lots of bug fixes for Deskhot here’s what new came out of the lab over the last month.

Import bookmarks on Deskhot

Deskhot can now import your bookmarks from your browser or delicious. This was one of the features planned for later but certain events made this top priority. An extensive post will go online in a few days with more details on this.

New favicon for Deskhot

When you have 10 or more tabs open and you need to get to your bookmarks right away, till now you had to scan the tab bar titles for deskhot. This was taking some time and was a bit annoying. I created a new favicon in plain blue and white. The new favicon is far simpler and now Deskhot is easy to spot among the other tabs.

New design for the lab

A new theme for the lab gave more focus on content and separated navigation completely. Now text is a bit bigger and the centered headlines make spotting the beginning of each article much easier. The text in the sidebar was rewritten and anything non-trivial was moved in the bottom of the page.

Releases: task management for people who create products

The problem with project management tools today is that they attempt to organize everything, making it easier for supervisors to have a global view of a production process. Releases puts the people who actually create a product in the center of attention. The single most important thing in producing any product is not work-hours or work units or anything else. It is the way the product is gonna be when it’s finally released.

By focusing on product releases you eliminate a lot of the “project management noise”. Sure, things like work-hours are nice to know but they remove your focus from what really matters. Releases purposely removes all that information so people who make the actual work can focus on what is top priority. It is currently in the early stages of development. Expect a private beta in a couple of months.

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