Guerrilla computing in the mountains of Seattle
The number of task management applications in the world today is mindnumbingly vast. In fact, it’s partially because of the multiple apps for task managing individuals and groups that we developed Mentat. The chaos of using existing project management tools within our company was a key motivator. We checked out a few other […]
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I started thinking about Mentat in response to the chaos of project management and task handling in my own life as an entrepreneur. While there were tools available for planning projects, keeping notes, prioritizing, and bug tracking, everything was disconnected. I needed a way to capture these thoughts from anywhere, without breaking my stride. Keeping […]
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You can now use Jott to capture ideas and tasks using your phone.
The code is out on the main server at http://mentat.brainmurmurs.com but we’re going to play with it for a few days and spend some time figuring out if we’re happy with the design before opening it up to the public.
It works […]
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The Mentat site is now online at http://mentat.brainmurmurs.com
Details to follow on Monday.
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The first mobile client for Mentat comes in the form of web pages optimized for the Apple iPhone. We are talking about doing a native application with data caching within the next few months as well.
Home Page
The home page view presents you with a list of projects and a form for creating new tasks. […]
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The To-Do List View
Yesterday’s post presented an over view of the project view, today we’re going to take a look to-do list basics.
The To-do list is expected to be something that users will keep open and refer to throughout most of their day. It provides an integrated view of all of the tasks currently assigned […]
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Project View
As a follow up on yesterday’s article about the Mentat user interface design philosophy, I’d like to talk about the Mentat Project view, our first example of this philosophy in action.
The project page provides a highly interactive view of group or individual tasks associated with a given project (a user or team can have […]
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Last week I introduced some of the fundamental ideas behind Mentat. This week I’d like to show a few screenshots from the current Mentat build we’re using in-house and highlight some of the most important features. Over the next few days I will go into this in much greater detail, including personal and project workflow […]
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