These entries are very insightful, and I appreciate being able to lurk ‘n learn…the above comment about Paprika and Staction integration is similar to our question (I’m writing on behalf of the web team at the Wisconsin School of Business) – can we integrate Staction with Jumpchart?

We don’t actually have a Staction account, so I haven’t been able to check it out yet, but it would seem handy if the autofill feature in Staction worked seamlessly with JumpChart (instead of inputting long links). There may be other ways to integrate them as well – for instance uploading text docs in Staction and choosing a page in JumpChart on which it would appear…my UX brain would love to daydream more about this, but I need to get back to work! Thanks for the great tools.

Angie

We think it would be great if Staction project summaries were Paprika projects in essence. But imagine how damaging it could be to the workflow if things got overwritten.

Anyway, – thank you for the input. We hope to solve problems like this someday, – and we appreciate having thoughtful users like you add to the dialog. It keeps us sharp. -Joe

I’m really happy to see you continue to expand your range of helpful little apps.

My favourite thing about your approach is that you don’t force people to make a decision up-front about what type of content they’re adding – they’re just adding content and they can shape it later, via tags, to-do’s, linking, and the rest. For me, the problem with something like Basecamp is that everything is only a whiteboard, or a milestone, a to-do… people don’t work like that, you need flexibility to multi-purpose content and decide, after you’ve started typing, what it is you’re really creating.

Now, on the question at hand – I can see the confusion about what exactly Paprika and Staction are for when used together. My opinion is that you should release another product, one that uses a single store of data, and has different views depending on what you’re trying to achieve – one view looks like Staction, another view looks like Paprika. There’s no need to keep the apps separate when they’re doing such similar things.

I use TiddlyWiki (tiddlywiki.com) a lot, which lets you create microcontent (tiddlers) and then do whatever you want with them via macros (written in JavaScript). The way I use it is already a bit like Paprika, with special bits of wiki-syntax having a certain function; and it’s a bit like Staction, in that I track my time via tiddlers, where the analysis is performed automatically.

J.