Rethink Sharing/Publishing Features?
sbooher says:
The amount of difficulty found in sharing/publishing lists, and number of questions on these topics might suggest a re-think is needed of the whole sharing/publishing feature set.
1) It's quite a few steps on the "receiving end" to be able to view someone's list. You literally need to sit down and walk people through all the steps they will need to complete, so that you can share a list with them in the future. If they don't do all the steps correctly, they'll never see the shared list.
2) The alternative, publishing for the whole world to see, generates a URL that is easily guessed and will likely be indexed shortly.
What's needed is a way to send a read-only, custom URL link to a co-worker. No need to become a member of RTM in a multiple-step process, no need to log in everyday to see it , just click on the custom URL (which one can bookmark) and see the tasks shared with you.
This is a feature that even free, bare-bones services such as Tadalist.com do very well - just enter an email address of a colleague, and it generates a custom URL for them. While RTM does a lot well, sharing/publishing is a net-negative the way it is currently implemented.
1) It's quite a few steps on the "receiving end" to be able to view someone's list. You literally need to sit down and walk people through all the steps they will need to complete, so that you can share a list with them in the future. If they don't do all the steps correctly, they'll never see the shared list.
2) The alternative, publishing for the whole world to see, generates a URL that is easily guessed and will likely be indexed shortly.
What's needed is a way to send a read-only, custom URL link to a co-worker. No need to become a member of RTM in a multiple-step process, no need to log in everyday to see it , just click on the custom URL (which one can bookmark) and see the tasks shared with you.
This is a feature that even free, bare-bones services such as Tadalist.com do very well - just enter an email address of a colleague, and it generates a custom URL for them. While RTM does a lot well, sharing/publishing is a net-negative the way it is currently implemented.
