January 7th, 2008 in Polls

We Ask, You Answer: Your Apps, Online

Every Monday, we pose a question for the lifehack.org community to answer. The following week, I post my answer along with a selection (depending on how many there are) of your responses. The idea is to give you a chance to share your knowledge with the rest of the lifehack.org community — and to give you the opportunity to see what your fellow lifehack.org readers are doing!

This week’s question is:

If you could have any of the applications you use available as an online app, what would it be?

Let us know your answer in the comments.

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Dustin Wax

Dustin M. Wax is the project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He is also the creator of The Writer's Technology Companion, a site devoted to the tools of the writing trade. When he's not writing, he teaches anthropology and gender studies in Las Vegas, NV. He is the author of Don't Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College.

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travors says on January 7th, 2008 at 8:38 am

The Palm Desktop Suite, as long as it was available to sync with my pda offline too. I still don’t trust online apps to be always available when I need them.
Ras says on January 7th, 2008 at 8:40 am

I’m currently satisfied with Things Beta at
http://culturedcode.com/things, it has everything I want. I hope the
developers add a sync option to my IPhone, and then it will be a “Kick Ass” GTD app for me. If I can publish to the web it will then be awsome
Kathryn says on January 7th, 2008 at 9:17 am

Dreamweaver. It’s the only piece of software that I don’t use enough to justify buying, but whose free alternatives (online or off) just leave me disatisfied and frustrated. I wish someone would do for DW what FotoFlex and The Gimp do for Photoshop.
Jeff says on January 7th, 2008 at 9:27 am

I would like an on-line calendar/contact/task program that is as complex and feature-filled as Outlook. I am tied to Outlook because of its great contact book, tasks, and calendar with many options. I also need to sync with my Treo.
Roland Engelhardt says on January 7th, 2008 at 10:41 am

I dont want any offline app. All should be online apps with the possibility of working offline with them too.
Brian Head says on January 7th, 2008 at 10:54 am

Open source SugarCRM server. I have published it to the web so I can get to it from anywhere. I have added the outlook sync plugin so I can create a “todo” on the fly from my inbox. It tracks all my major projects, and project tasks along with all my business opportunities. I am a software developer so it tracks versions and bugs for me as well.
Ross Goodman says on January 7th, 2008 at 11:48 am

I have “portable” ie USB versions of all of my apps.
I have online versions of most.
The main one that is missing is FreeMind, mind mapping software. I start most projects/thoughts/processes in FreeMind.

Ross
http://www.RossGoodman.com
faizal says on January 7th, 2008 at 11:59 am

Siebel
LD says on January 7th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

Nothing unless it can utilize Google Gears or some equivalent. Online is great…until I’m on an airplane and need to get some work done.
Chris White says on January 8th, 2008 at 12:28 am

I think I’d go with OneNote, I actually don’t use it much right now because it’s only off line. I’m impressed with Zoho’s Notebook and I really like Google’s–in fact, I use Google Notebook as an online collection tool that then gets processed into OneNote–but I need something that syncs.

Another idea would be the Zune Marketplace. I work on a Mac at work and a XP64 machine at my labs, but neither of them are compatible with the Zune.
Michael DeBusk says on January 8th, 2008 at 4:49 am

Quicken. Unless Intuit wants to build a Linux version. Quicken is the one app for which I haven’t found a good Linux replacement.
wondersz1 says on January 23rd, 2008 at 8:55 am

Here’s a great list of Web-based services. If you feel enthusiastic about web apps, that’ll be of use to you - check out http://nedwolf.com/Web-Applications.htm
Also you may want to play with Zoho services, Google Notebook looks quite promising.