![43 Actions New Feature Tuesday: Next action.
Here at 43 Actions we always strive to make the user interaction as quick and effortless as possible. The last thing you want when standing in the cue at the grocery store, trying to get your shopping list in order, is a complex interface. The new “Next Action” implementation we are launching today is really extremely simple, but is hopefully what most people will need to get through the day.
It piggy-backs on the old “Flag” setting (which has been terribly under-utilized) and re-frames it as “Mark as active/next action”. Clicking this button (below “Check this action”) immediately moves the action to the top of the context or project it belongs to—and also makes it visually distinct. If you have multiple “active” actions, the most recently updated one is at the top. (Actions both marked and assigned a due date are placed above all others.)
We continue to think hard about how to best implement some more advanced functionality—without compromising the user interface. But it leans towards not being fully feasible until we are finally running natively on the iPhone—oops, I think we said too much … ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H [message self-destructed]
Bonus feature: now you can click the checkbox “add another” when creating a new action. You will then be sent to a brand new form to fill out your next action—saving lots of time! (Suggested by user Taavi.)](http://8.media.tumblr.com/ywKYtpnOt6ezot0y3Czf0moE_400.png)
43 Actions New Feature Tuesday: Next action.
Here at 43 Actions we always strive to make the user interaction as quick and effortless as possible. The last thing you want when standing in the cue at the grocery store, trying to get your shopping list in order, is a complex interface. The new “Next Action” implementation we are launching today is really extremely simple, but is hopefully what most people will need to get through the day.
It piggy-backs on the old “Flag” setting (which has been terribly under-utilized) and re-frames it as “Mark as active/next action”. Clicking this button (below “Check this action”) immediately moves the action to the top of the context or project it belongs to—and also makes it visually distinct. If you have multiple “active” actions, the most recently updated one is at the top. (Actions both marked and assigned a due date are placed above all others.)
We continue to think hard about how to best implement some more advanced functionality—without compromising the user interface. But it leans towards not being fully feasible until we are finally running natively on the iPhone—oops, I think we said too much … ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H [message self-destructed]
Bonus feature: now you can click the checkbox “add another” when creating a new action. You will then be sent to a brand new form to fill out your next action—saving lots of time! (Suggested by user Taavi.)
1 year ago