Changing the way you work

Lovely praise from so not one dot oh:

Every once in a while you come across an amazing website which will change the way you work, well … Stikkit will do just that! The best part about stikkit is that it you don’t have to adapt to it, it will adapt to you...

Hitting the nail on the head

Tommy Morgan of The Grapefruit Discourses thinks Stikkit's suite of features "hit the nail on the head." Thank you, Tommy. We're working hard during the beta to hone in on the features that will really make Stikkit, well, stick.

Anne Loves Stikkit (and Origami)

Anne Lavin recently discovered Stikkit and immediately began offering excellent feedback and some rather keen observations about her new-to-Stikkit experience. But more than her interest in helping us make Stikkit all the better for her having used it, over the course of our email conversations I discovered something about Anne that had me rather intrigued.

Anne is in to origami in a pretty big way. Given Rael's early descriptions of Stikkit as "organizational origami" (in reference to how a stikkit can be a to-do and a URL at the same time), I thought this a lovely happenstance. That she sometimes uses sticky notes as her medium—now she had me.

Needless to say, a batch of our Stikkit note pads was in the mail to Anne within moments. And she whipped up something so absolutely beautiful, we just had to share.


Anne suggests there are more to come, and we can't wait.

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Greg Newman's Stikkit-wear

Greg of carbon8 studios has been using and tinkering with Stikkit for a while now, has also been an active community forums participant, and has posted several blog entries about Stikkit. It was my pleasure to send him a Stikkit shirt this week as a token of our appreciation for his generosity.

Thanks Greg!

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Merlin Dives Into Stikkit

Merlin Mann has posted what I hope is the first of many dispatches on using Stikkit at 43folders. In typical Merlin style, he's managed to describe in a single post both the simplicity and underlying power of Stikkit.

As promised, I wanted to start sharing some of the reasons I’ve been digging Stikkit, so I thought I’d begin at the beginning: Stikkit’s use of “magic words” to do stuff based on your typing natural (albeit geeky) language into a blank note. There’s a lot more to Stikkit than magic words, but this is a great place to start. (And, yeah, future posts will be more about how to implement stuff with Stikkit, but it’s worthwhile to start with the mechanics.)

It's a great resource to have as he's condensed a lot of what we've written in documentation into a single blog post, along with the Stikkit cheat sheet.

Thomas' Inline Web Triage

Thomas Vanderwal describes how he uses the Stikklet to pick up bits of microcontent to add to his Personal InfoCloud.

I have been using Stikkit, from the bookmarklet, as my in-line web information triage. If I find an event or something I want to come back to latter (other than to read and bookmark) I pop that information into Stikkit. Most often it is to remind me of deadlines, events, company information, etc. I open the Stikkit bookmarklet and add the information. The date information I add is dumped into my Stikkit calendar, names and addresses are put into the Stikkit address book, and I can tag them for context for easier retrival.

He also has some kinds words for the newly released Stikkit API:

Now with the addition of the API Stikkit is now easy to retrieve a vCard, ical, or other standard data format I can drop into my tools I normally aggregate similar information. I do not need to refer back to Stikkit to copy and paste (or worse mis-type) into my work apps.

We've been a fan of Thomas' research around tags and how allowing for things like folksonomies gives power to individuals while making the Internet a better place.

Offloading mental clutter

In his blog, Various Contrivances, Matt Routley explains how Stikkit frees up mental bandwidth for details more important than remembering appointment dates and phone numbers:

I like to believe that my brain is useful for analysis, synthesis, and creativity. Clearly it is not proficient at storing details like specific dates and looming reminders. Nonetheless, a great deal of my mental energy is devoted to trying to remember such details and fearing the consequences of the inevitable “it slipped my mind”. As counseled by GTD, I need a good and trustworthy system for removing these important, but distracting, details and having them reappear when needed. I’ve finally settled in on the new product from values of n called Stikkit.

Stikkit: "Me-First" collaboration

Stowe Boyd (/Message) pointed to Stikkit as a good example of his belief in "Me-First" collaboration: namely, that the notion of group membership as a requirement for collaboration is limiting and outdated:

"...I think Stikkit is a great example of me-first and bottom-up organization, and represents where social collaboration is headed: away from group-first and top-down methods."

He talks about Stikkit's focus on small bits of shareable information and the ad hoc groups of people that form around those bits. He nails exactly what we're trying to accomplish with Stikkit: uncoupling collaboration from bulky tools such as "groups," "calendars," or "pages," and instead letting it bubble up as a natural result of sharing the bits of information we need.

Kelli Matthews

Kelli Matthews teaches public relations at the University of Oregon. She included Stikkit in her list of links for the week for her Advanced PR Writing and PR Campaigns students:
"You can share your projects with teammates by inviting them to join. These are the coolest. We use them in my office."