Jotlet Developer Blog

We’ve released a small update to Jotlet tonight. You can now set task reminders in addition to event reminders. It’s super handy to get email or text message reminders right when you need them! Also included in this release are some UI tweaks, especially in Internet Explorer, to make your user experience even more seemless.

As many of you know, for the past 9 months we have been hard at work perfecting the Jotlet experience, and I believe that this small release finally pushes Jotlet to the 100% base functionality that we’ve been striving towards. From here on out, we’re working on user requested features. This is your online calendar, we’re just building it, so let us know what features you want, need, and lust after.

Our goal is to make the fastest, most beautiful, and easiest to use online calendar, and we need your help!

Internet.ru, a Russian news site primary focusing on tech, reviewed Jotlet recently. The front page of the site currently sports news about Apple, Canon, Tivo and others, and Jotlet is right there in the middle!

I must admit my Russian is a bit rusty, so I employed the full power of Babelfish to translate the review into English. I’ve included the resulting text below:

To live under the plan easily and conveniently. Especially it is actual for people engaged business. It is the most convenient to plan time by means of an electronic calendar. The calendars which have been built in in смартфон or коммуникатор (analogues in mobile phones are too simple) a little help(assist). But it is much more pleasant to look through the list planned events on the big screen of the personal computer or ноутбука. And if there is a constant Internet connection even to establish(install) any programs it is not necessary, enough to take advantage of service Jotlet.

Jotlet is simple in use and qualitatively executed electronic calendar. After free-of-charge registration before you there is a calendar for month and it is possible to start to bring events and problems(tasks). Creation of a personal calendar passes(takes place) standard by, that is you choose the certain day, type of event (a meeting, the task), time of event and there is a new note.

The kind of a calendar can be changed at own discretion. It can be a variant for month, week or per day. From additional opportunities it is necessary to note presence of function to create any quantity(amount) of calendars that is very convenient. One calendar business, in the second it is possible to mark(celebrate) holidays, etc. Also there is an opportunity of adjustment(option) of the interface of a calendar. It(she) is However, expressed only in change of color of the panel with the name of month.

Registration Jotlet leaves only pleasant impression: well picked up font, a soft palette and simple, but will not leave stylish design indifferent even разбалованных opportunities Web of 2.0 users.

Check it out at http://www.internet.ru/index.php?itemid=15266

While I’m not entirely sure what those two bromides actually mean, I’m relatively sure they apply to us.

We read every single email you send us. We really do. It’s how we make our decisions when we wake up in the morning:

“Matt and Adam”, we say, out loud. “What are we going to do today?”
“Why, let’s figure that out by seeing what our users want!”

Then we check our email.

Well today we figured out that a large portion of our users are not from America, and a large portion of those users don’t speak English at all. So we (and by we, I mean Adam, who does a vast vast majority of the coding) implemented full UTF8 support into Jotlet in a single day.

So now you may enter whatever characters you want… Japanese characters, cyrillic, those cool “a” characters that have a circle above them, etc. However, we are not fully “international”, yet…

Being completely ethnocentric, Adam and I don’t speak any other language but English (well, I’m fluent in American Sign Language, but I don’t think that’s much help). We need anyone who is multilingual to help us translate.

If you are interested in helping us translate a few words into a different language (’add event’, ‘add calendar’, ‘January’, etc.) then please shoot me an email at matt@jotlet.net. We can’t promise you fame or fortune, but we will put a thank you on our site, and, I don’t know, maybe we’ll send you a fruit basket or something.

I know! If you live outside of the United States, let us know if there’s something you want that you can’t get outside of the US. I know for a fact they don’t sell Pop Tarts in Germany, and that’s a crime.

Без перевода,
Matt

Howdy everyone!

We’re really excited that the word about Jotlet is getting out. Thanks to all of you who have signed up and started using our application. We believe Jotlet to be the most elegant, easy-to-use calendar app out there.

For all of you with accounts, we want to ask you a favor: please send us feedback. Questions, comments, praise, criticism– whatever you want. Everything you say will impact the development of this application in some form or fashion. If you think about it, that’s what really sets us small development teams apart from the big boys.

We want to spend as much time interacting with our users as we spend developing Jotlet. If you don’t like it, then what’s the point in moving forward with what we’ve got? Fortunately we’ve gotten quite a bit of praise around our user interface and core functionality. We don’t have the resources to do full usability tests, so you are our worldwide usability assessment. If we get a question asking how to do something, we consider that poor UI planning. If you spend the time to email us asking for a feature, then we know that you like our product, and want to see it improve so you can use it regularly. There’s no greater compliment.

Keep posting on your blogs and telling your friends and family. We want to be the “web 2.0″ app that absolutely anyone can use. If you post a review on your blog or site, please let us know so we can read it and take into consideration what you’ve said about our product.

Thanks and regards!
- Matt