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YES PLEASE!!!!

IF there was any way to replace the current CONTACTS feature w/ FACEBOOK FRIENDS... or at least supplement the current CONTACTS w/ FACEBOOK FRIENDS.... oh my gosh that'd be AMAZING!

AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SUPPORT OPENID!

Posted 5 years ago

jnathan

This is an absolute no brainer. Please make this happen

Posted 5 years ago

Yes ! Plz make RTM Facebook app :)
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Posted 5 years ago

Facebook integration would be a great idea, especially if it could somehow link in to Events / Groups...

Posted 5 years ago

I would pay for RTM if they added it into Facebook well... supplemented contacts w/ Facebook friends... etc.

Posted 5 years ago

Add/Edit/Delete tasks is all I would need out of a Facebook app!

Posted 5 years ago

I am also for a facebook app too!

Posted 5 years ago

There needs to be a Facebook group! Someone please make one and post a link!

Posted 5 years ago

This would be a fantastic addition!

Posted 5 years ago

angela.randall

Yeah, I'd love it, too. :)

Posted 5 years ago

ranbarton

A few minutes ago, I saw the Highrise thread, and while I think that's a more elegant application, the people and the herd are all over Facebook these days. It might not be a bad way to expose new users to RTM and draw them over here to the full feature set. The trick would be to stand out from the herd. 30Boxes is over there, but the only list application I've seen is awful, so I bet you could do something that would stand out.

Posted 5 years ago

Here's the thing : Almost no one will use it. You may think that you yourself would, and maybe you're right, but in the end, the vast majority of people don't recognize the intrinsic value of organizing their tasks.

Sure, if you have a full team of people all on Facebook and RTM, this could potentially be useful (one less step to send and receive tasks while you're browsing Facebook?). But to send someone a task, they must already be an RTM user, and hence you can collaborate and delegate déjà using the RTM interface.

Yeah, I know, a lot of people use Facebook, but how many of them want you to send them tasks? How many of them would know what to do if you did? How many would actually perform the task that you send them?

I think this is more of a project for a third party developer (maybe even you!) to write in their spare time with RTM's API. Hey, perhaps I'm totally wrong and the mass populace isn't the lazy bunch of monkeys that I think it is (no offense, Bob, you're much further evolved).

Posted 5 years ago

angela.randall

Yeah, I actually thought about it after I added my comment and realised it'd be pretty useless. I mean, I don't want to show my to-do list on my profile. So what's the point? :)

Posted 5 years ago

ranbarton

The core of the Facebook community is students, and don't students have tasks? Teachers could in fact use RTM to distribute assignments. My grad school teams would have loved something like RTM and Facebook.

I agree that we're not mainstream here in the RTM forums, but I think that managing bills and homework and the whatnot of life is a pretty widespread issue.

Posted 5 years ago

Yes, ranbarton, you're right, there are a lot of students on Facebook. Furthermore I think that such a Facebook application could serve as a way to increase RTM awareness.

But then we come back to my original point, being that everyone has to be a member of both RTM and Facebook to make use of such an application. And if you're going to be a member of RTM, why not just send tasks through RTM?

In short, unless you add more functionality to the Facebook application itself (such as dynamic group distribution lists), it's better to just use RTM and forget Facebook. Actually, no, forget that, I created a Facebook group for RTM. I love Facebook.

By the way, ranbarton, I'm glad you mentioned the use of RTM in an educational context... I have a mega-idea that I'm going to propose soon!

Posted 5 years ago

jkalvin, thanks for creating the Facebook group -- that's awesome. I just joined :)

Posted 5 years ago

Emily- Awesome that you and Omar joined. I set you both as admins.

Posted 5 years ago

angela.randall

I just joined too. Not that there's probably any point, since all RTM ideas will be over here.. but it might raise awareness and get some new RTMers. :)

Posted 5 years ago

Let's hope so :)

Overall, it's us showing our support, and maybe becoming a stronger community ;D

Posted 5 years ago

this is the best idea yet.

Posted 5 years ago

"Yeah, I actually thought about it after I added my comment and realised it'd be pretty useless. I mean, I don't want to show my to-do list on my profile. So what's the point? :) "

The beauty of RTM is that it allows a simple way to operate intelligently on lists. Facebook has millions of lists (networks, groups, application data), and mind-boggling potential for enhancing group organization, cooperation, and communication. Granted, most of the apps now aren't tapping into that potential, but give it time.

What I'd want in a facebook (or other social network) app/plugin would be the ability to
* import/export contacts & friends & groups
* delegate tasks to groups
* coordinate facebook events in RTM
* refer to facebook users systematically in RTM tags, tasks, or notes
* dynamically populate soft groups of people working on similar tasks (by checking public lists for tags or other lexical analysis)
* identify experts at certain tasks
* exchange tasks with other users in an auction-like system
* poke people to remind them to GTD
* update status history with tasks completed ("Oscar has completed his laundry." Maybe that one should be off by default.)
* assist in distributed project management for volunteerism, flash mobs, open source projects, etc.
* rate the efficiency and quality of another user's completed task

Posted 5 years ago

I second Ojcit's post.

Posted 5 years ago

At the very least, a page should be made for RTM so that it can get more publicity by people "becoming fans" of it. I'd be a fan, for sure!

I don't see the use in a FB app really... I much prefer the iGoogle gadget for RTM.

Posted 5 years ago

dmd1272

yes, yes

Posted 5 years ago

Would like to see both a Facebook App and Fan Page. It would be great to see my tasks there as a reminder to me but not let others see it.

You should at least create a Facebook Fan Page because it will increase awareness and membership.

I just found the RTM group on Facebook but just because I saw it in an earlier post in this thread. When I search for RTM in the search box on Facebook, no results are found!

I recently reviewed and graded RTM, you can see it here:
http://tomuse.com/2008/04/12/getting-things-done-with-to-do-lists-and-task-managers

Posted 5 years ago

From a thread I made a while back:

So I have started using RTM and I think we can all agree it's great.
But it's missing a big feature for me: Facebook Integration.

Why does it need Facebook integration?
Well for starters, I don't ever want to miss a friends birthday. All my friends are on Facebook, and Facebook knows when all their birthdays are. So I will never forget again!

There are loads of other reasons it would be good: I could publish my tasks for others to see, add my contacts using it etc etc.

I am sure you can think if ways you would like it to work.
If anyone uses "30 Boxes" then they have actually done something similar to this:
http://apps.facebook.com/thirtyboxes/

What do you think?

Posted 4 years ago

Hi all!

Any news on the Facebook - RTM thing? If nothing happened so far, I and a friend of mine might take a look at this. We're both web developers and want to look into developing FB apps and thought this would be a good starter.

Any comments appreciated!

Posted 4 years ago

Just to let you know, as I have been considering the same:
The feature I am most interested in is getting my Facebook birthdays into Remember the Milk.

You can use this Facebook application to export your contacts birthdays into an iCal file:
http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php#/apps/application.php?id=2444662219

So you now have a file with all the birthdays in it, and you can easily format the data in that file to however you want.

You just need to work out how to import that data into RTM.

Hope that's of some use. Keep me posted because I am seriously considering doing this...

Posted 4 years ago

mensurationist

I would be very interested in seeing RTM as a FB app, integrated the same way as per Gmail - that would put me over the edge for a Pro upgrade.

What are the chances?

Happy 2009 everyone!

Posted 4 years ago

tetsuyasu

I think it's a good idea!

Posted 1 year ago

me apunto a la iniciativa de facebook share, podrian tambien agregar para twitter y email.

Posted 1 year ago