About to cancel Highrise
I’m having trouble seeing the value in Highrise, but maybe I’m just using it “wrong”. I was excited for months prior to launch because I need _major_ help with CRM and tracking business development, but right now my Highrise is basically a glorified email archive that I can segment and group. While the very well-done email parsing stuff is slick, I don’t need another to-do task list, and sending a task via email isn’t near as quick as just adding it to my phone (which syncs with iCal). (Will the email parsing feature move into Basecamp? Pretty please? Messages and To-Dos via email!)
For the $29 a month, I’d rather put that money into a more powerful tool.
Any suggestions or help? Inspiring links on how others are using Highrise to take over the world? Or should I just seriously consider Studiometry? (Or something else?)
I downgraded my sub as well (after having to manually delete approx 100 contacts one at a time).
I like the way that the task list uses the today, tomorrow, later philosophy but found it lacking as a complete task manager (I prefer toodledo)
I think they have put some great functionality into it but there were just too many things missing or annoyances that keep me from committing to it fully.
I set up a task in my tickler to re-examine it in a year though – I don’t dismiss anything that the 37signals folks put out forever.
SB
@Scott: Thanks for your comment. I’m with you—I don’t dismiss 37Signals’ products, I’m a happy Basecamp user.
I’ve checked out Toodledo, but it seems too complex for what I need. Currently for to-do’s I use a combination of iCal (which syncs with my Nokia E62, for daily/few days out to-dos), Basecamp (for project specific long-term to-dos), and Ta-Da Lists (for personal to-do lists/projects, random ideas, etc). It seems a bit unwieldy, but works pretty well for me. Highrise’s Task lists just duplicated the iCal functionality in my workflow, and I don’t want to give up having those tasks sync’ed into my phone.
Jacob, if you’re in need of something simple, you might try todoist.com.
It’s simple, the UI is very straightforward and it has gmail integration as well.