"simplicity over complexity, flexibility over rigidity, connection over competition, pragmatism over perfection."

March 23, 2007 9:30 PM

Stikkit tries to be smart without being clever.
posted by signal (26 comments total)

We've opened the back door so the tinkerers and mashuppers

Thinkers and mashuppers?

So I read the links you gave me, and frankly, I have no idea why I would ever want to use something like this. What does this do that Outlook (or I would imagine other PIMs) don't? And why do I care?
posted by delmoi at 9:43 PM on March 23, 2007

why 2.0
posted by furtive at 9:44 PM on March 23, 2007

I totally invented the Post-It.
posted by miss lynnster at 9:45 PM on March 23, 2007 [2 favorites]

MetaBoingBoing?

first the BoingBoing post about Amazon-Bling via Consumerist. Time-lage: 11 minutes.
now the BoingBoing post about Stikkit. Time-Lag: 4 hours.

btw, wow, that smart link is a clever login...
posted by umop-apisdn at 9:49 PM on March 23, 2007

Why no narration in the videos? I'm trying to watch just to see how much this will suck, and the pace ended up being amazingly slow.

Regardless, this software seems ridiculous. How hard is it just to use a GUI to add contact information, really?

And "Clever" is exactly what it's trying to be, rather then use a deterministic one must learn (which isn't hard, let's be honest) you get this thing trying to guess what you're doing. And if it guesses wrong, you're fucked!
posted by delmoi at 9:51 PM on March 23, 2007

stikkit is great, I've been using it for several months now and they've done an excellent job at improving. Daring Fireball has a great post about stikkit that does a good job explaining some of its features.
posted by premiumpolar at 9:53 PM on March 23, 2007

Having played with Stikkit for the last two months... it annoys the hell out of me.

I'd rather have a notes/organizer system that adapts to my grammar and language, not one that requires I learn some unnatural, byzantine phrasing system.

I mean, I'd have no problem learning a new language if all the commands were obvious and the rules self-evident.
posted by dw at 9:53 PM on March 23, 2007

this is a poor post
posted by mrnutty at 9:54 PM on March 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

I totally invented the Post-It.

Yep, but I decided they should be yellow.
posted by inconsequentialist at 10:01 PM on March 23, 2007

stikkit is pretty slick actually.
posted by chunking express at 10:05 PM on March 23, 2007

What does this site do that can't be done with a bit of yelling at a subordinate?
posted by Pastabagel at 10:11 PM on March 23, 2007 [2 favorites]

I second mynutty
post has been flagged as stuppit
posted by umop-apisdn at 10:15 PM on March 23, 2007

This post could have used more explanation, but it is a cool app. They're even doing an email parser version of it.
posted by mathowie at 10:17 PM on March 23, 2007

This is ass (not the good kind).
posted by Nahum Tate at 10:22 PM on March 23, 2007

oops... :%s/mynutty/mrnutty/g
posted by umop-apisdn at 10:26 PM on March 23, 2007

MetaBoingBoing?

MetaMetaBoingBoing?

MetaBoing, MetaBoing,

Meta Meta Boing.
posted by Anything at 10:30 PM on March 23, 2007 [2 favorites]

What I'm trying to convey with the above is that you can sing and dance while always going one step further towards the ultimate essence of the intertubes.
posted by Anything at 10:34 PM on March 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

This is like, you know, old.
posted by justgary at 11:31 PM on March 23, 2007

This seems like an advanced version of keeping all your notes in a wiki—instead of spending half your time getting the wiki markup right and making sure your links are all correct, Stikkit appears to do this more naturally (though I can see where it could fail easily). Also, it has that nifty propagation feature where stikkits can update each other with new info, and unless I miss my guess you can pipe e-mails through it so that other people's messages can update your stikkits (though I can see even more problems here—what happens if someone reschedules a meeting in an e-mail? Is stikkit smart enough to figure out what to do?).

I don't have any experience whatsoever with traditional organizer/PIM software, so I don't know if this sort of functionality is already available in individual applications or across suites (can Outlook glean contact details and calendar appointments from e-mails, for example), but from what I can see it looks a bit like a personal organizer meets wiki meets Quicksilver.
posted by chrominance at 11:49 PM on March 23, 2007

I totally invented the Post-It.

Unlikely. I was on the alpha team, back when we called them the Pre-It. Licking the back of those first thousand prototypes sucked.
posted by hal9k at 3:18 AM on March 24, 2007

No, I totally did.
posted by miss lynnster at 6:37 AM on March 24, 2007

Is it because it's so blindingly obvious that no one's had an "up your ass" comment for Stikkit yet?
posted by DenOfSizer at 8:15 AM on March 24, 2007

Yep, but I decided they should be yellow.

Please. Your yellow square was nothing before my brainstorm of selling them in pads.
posted by dmd at 5:34 PM on March 24, 2007

Ok, you're right.

But I did invent Liquid Paper.

And the zarf.
posted by miss lynnster at 6:41 PM on March 24, 2007

Where the sun don't shine.
posted by kcds at 8:12 AM on March 26, 2007

My younger brother works on this project. Considering the random number of pretty cool projects he's been on that have gone huge, as well as a number of side projects like the llor.nu game (which I believe is still on hiatus, probably due to stikkit), I expect good things for this. It might not be used as is in the current incarnation and interface in the end, but that's what the API is for.

Also, knowing him and the sardonicness of my entire family - if you'd like to be snarky I would probably enjoy it more if you tried harder, you mewling pukesick little kittens. Come on! I know you've got better than these hastily plucked low-lying fruit. Or not, whatever.
posted by loquacious at 2:57 PM on March 26, 2007