It’s time for another Slife-is-coming post!
We were planning to release 1.3 earlier this week, but decided that another week of testing and getting things ready was worth it. So that’s what we’ve been doing and things are looking great.
You will see a number of big and small things in the release. At the heart of Slife 1.3 is an improved mechanism for application tracking, which includes auto-discovery of previously unsupported programs and also better performance. The option of scanning your disk for applications is gone. Now, when you launch an app Slife is not aware of, it starts tracking it right away.
New applications are now fully supported as well. All the Adobe CS3 apps are there, which is something we’ve wanted to include for a while now. Another cool feature that I bet a lot of people will like is that Slife 1.3 can be completely hidden from view while running. Only the icon stays up in the menu bar.
One feature that you won’t see in 1.3 is tags. Again, this is part of the strategy of keeping the app as lean as possible as it evolves. From our research, most people are using Slife as a time/activity tracking tool and not so much as an information management tool. In this context, tags are not as useful.
Finally, there’s one more thing that the new Slife has that is pretty cool, but you will have to wait until next week to find out. Otherwise, what kind of anticipation are you going to have over the weekend, isn’t it? All I can say is that it’s about Slifeshare, which is also getting a big upgrade. Stay tuned.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:39 pm
[...] Most of the new features had already been announced, except for one, the new Friends View. This is how it looks like: [...]
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:12 pm
[...] And now they’ve sent word that Slife has entered version 1.3, with numerous additions to the interface. The program can now work in the background, and apparently it no longer has to scan your hard drive for all the different applications to track– if a new app shows up in your usage, it’ll start tracking it automatically. They’ve also added a few social networking options (which sounds like a better idea than an actual feature to me– do I really want people knowing how much time I spend playing World of Warcraft?) with their Slifeshare service. You can track your friends’ activities, even down to what app they’re using at the moment. [...]
October 11th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
[...] And now they’ve sent word that Slife has entered version 1.3, with numerous additions to the interface. The program can now work in the background, and apparently it no longer has to scan your hard drive for all the different applications to track– if a new app shows up in your usage, it’ll start tracking it automatically. They’ve also added a few social networking options (which sounds like a better idea than an actual feature to me– do I really want people knowing how much time I spend playing World of Warcraft?) with their Slifeshare service. You can track your friends’ activities, even down to what app they’re using at the moment. [...]
October 12th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
[...] And now they’ve sent word that Slife has entered version 1.3, with numerous additions to the interface. The program can now work in the background, and apparently it no longer has to scan your hard drive for all the different applications to track– if a new app shows up in your usage, it’ll start tracking it automatically. They’ve also added a few social networking options (which sounds like a better idea than an actual feature to me– do I really want people knowing how much time I spend playing World of Warcraft?) with their Slifeshare service. You can track your friends’ activities, even down to what app they’re using at the moment. [...]