Alexander Griekspoor(下稱 Alex) 是一個獨立的開發者,在 Agenda 出現之前,他有一個出名的作品 Papers,提供研究者收納以及整理參考資料使用。2016 年 Papers 被 Digital Science 收購,讓 Alex 除了扮演開發者外,更多了管理、營運的任務。
I noticed most people didn’t use any method like this, despite how simple it was.I started advising the people I saw struggling to do the same as I did and told them: “Just keep a TextEdit document open where during the week you capture the things you want to discuss with me. And when we have our 1-on-1 we can simply go over that list”. When it seemed to work for them as well,I started to slowly think of turning this methodology into an app. At the minimum I would have one customer: myself.
While his very first reaction was “another note taking app?! There are thousands of those already!”, he seemed to like the idea for thisdate-focused note taking appin the end.
We received some very good feedback from a number of testers. However, when we say “very good”, it refers to the quality of the feedback; what was said about the app itself was actually quite bad.The testers did not understand the methodology, nor what all those boxes were supposed to mean, what determined their sort order, etc.After a year of work, that was a bitter pill to take to say the least…
正如同 Alex 在另外一篇文章中所回應,很多人都在討論該使用哪種工具,哪種工具比較好,但其實更該專注在「流程」,而流程並不會被使用的工具所限制。
In a lot of the discussion I see a lot of focus on the tool, what A can do and B cannot, but B can and A cannot etc etc.I personally think we should focus much more on the process, which often can be done in any app.I wrote about it in my “Next Box” post; while I “live” in Agenda and love it as my tool of choice (duh!), the workflow I have today isn’t much different from the one I originally set up in TextEdit and Simplenote. Agenda makes it (much) nicer and adds a lot of power, but the basics are the same.
今天,Agenda 的上場的故事就先說到這邊,或許我們都該思考,我們到底想要建立哪種系統?創造如何的流程?運用 Alex 的核心觀念,悠遊於不同的 App 之中。