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It’s been this small for as long as I can remember. Maybe they need to visit Information Architects in Japan. You’d think a site with this much clout could get this. Screenshot below.

Stikkit makes organizing your daily details as simple as jotting down a note or firing off email. Stikkit’s “little yellow notes that think” talk to the productivity applications you already use, as well as to friends, coworkers and family, giving you a universal remote for your life.

After spending an hour reading up on the service, I was excited about the possibilities and started creating some basic “stikkits” as a test case. A trip to the Stikkit forums a day later revealed the unfortunate truth: Stikkit, one of the SXSW 2007 winners for Technical Achievement and widely applauded by Web Worker Daily, Michael Calore (Wired blog writer), Lifehacker, TechCrunch UK, O’Reilly Radar, and many others… is unofficially mothballed.

The signs are all there in the forums:

No, they haven’t killed it at all — but they have said that they will not develop it any further, and it’s obvious from the developers’ complete silence on these forums — and from the non-response to emails that I’ve sent to Values of N about Stikkit — that they are not supporting it. This certainly means that none of the existing bugs and glitches will be fixed, but it also makes me a little nervous about investing too much of my life in Stikkit. It’s a small step from “we’re not developing or supporting this any further” to “we’re pulling the plug on this.” So I for one am looking for other apps that will do what Stikkit does for me, but haven’t found anything yet.

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I moved all my data into an OmniOutliner document. It seems hopeless asking unresponsive developers for features the program needs or to fix bugs that make it hardly usable. Any day now I expect Stikkit to go offline, or maybe it will remain perpetually in its buggy state - I’m not sure which would be worse.

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That’s it. I’m gone. I thought Value of n was working on Sandy and I just had to be patient. But the support for Sandy has been next to non-existent too and Stikkit doesn’t work well enough to use so I’m ‘outta here’.

The last post in the admin-controlled “Announcements” forum is dated September 10, 2007 and the “Bugs” forum is strewn with unanswered bug reports.

Google Calendar : Dates and times I need pop-up or email reminders for. Incredibly important even for scheduling a quick reminder to call someone in 2 hours.

Google Notebook : I mostly interact with the clunky iGoogle Gadget interface to this and use it to take down, well, notes. License numbers for software I own, project ideas for down the road, random musings, product ideas for my side company, tracking money owed to me by a certain person, etc. Your basic notepad.

Remember The Milk : My todo list for my many items that just need to be done sometime.

Why can’t I have a calendar, todo list, and notepad in one free web-based application? Or perhaps a $20/year plan? Backpack from 37Signals is $60/year for their basic plan.

I hope someone points me to something in the comments of this post.

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To date I have not received a single cent.

It is time to implement plan B.

OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word.

Check out the example’s at OneLook’s reverse dictionary page to see the useful stuff you can do there (Found at Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site.)

Many thanks to Ricci Adams’ for making this available for all.

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