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Sep
23

Just get it done, dammit – To-Do Apps

  • Posted By : Jennifer Bennett/
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  • Under : Coding, Uncategorized

We’re busy, you’re busy, everyone has shit to do. But the real question is – how DO you get all that stuff done? Magic? Mary Poppins finger snapping? I wish.

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For me, I am old-school. I love nothing more than making a list at the start of each day and checking things off on a pad of paper. Each little checkmark sends a tiny bit of dopamine coursing into my brain. (Sometimes I’m guilty of even half x’ing a box when I’m in progress on a task and want to congratulate myself on being “mostly” done). This works for me. It helps me sort and prioritize my day and gives me a historical list of things done and not done.

Others may want a more high-tech approach. Enter “To Do” apps. Everyone and everyone’s cousin has an idea for a good to do app. “It will revolutionize your world!”.

No. No it will not. It is just an app.


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But, there are a lot of them out there – you almost need to make a list in order to find one.

  1. Make list of what would be helpful
  2. Research top to-do lists
  3. Download 15 to-do apps
  4. Spend hours procrastinating by testing out apps in order to find “the ONE”
  5. Enter half your information in several apps
  6. Cry as your phone explodes with endless notifications
  7. Spend all your time dismissing notifications and not getting anything done.


As you can see – its a lot to think about. However, what will be most effective is an app that MOTIVATES you. Me? I’m motivated by getting to check boxes. But….
some may like it to be a competitive game (HabitRPG)
some may need threats (Carrot)
some may need a pretty app to look at their list in (Clear)
some may just want an app that consents to their procrastination (Procrastination)
some just want to use what everyone else is using (Wunderlist)

Ironically, Wiley has “writing a post about to do apps” on his to do list – I’m not sure all these fancy apps are helping him DO it though.

(Further disclosure Wiley has used the following in his search for “THE ONE” : Wunderlist, Things, Omnifocus, To-Doist, Checkmark, Clear, Carrot, Free-time, Lift, DOOO, 30/30, Nobze, EasyTask Manager – THIS IS ONLY ON IPHONE)

How does LunarLincoln, as a company, handle to-do lists? Drum-roll please: JIRA. JIRA is the grandfather of development to-do lists. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions and is where we spend ALL DAY LONG. It also keeps us on track, our clients on track, and sorts through the hundreds of storyboards we are constantly creating.  JIRA is the un-pc shortening of Godzilla – and is made by Atlassian.

We’ll cover more about JIRA and it’s sister program Confluence next week. For now I’ll leave you with Travis in a godzilla costume, showing how much he loves JIRA:


Sep
15

Its getting crowded in here, you guys

  • Posted By : Jennifer Bennett/
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These blog posts are no longer getting written and posted on the weekend, y’all! In addition to LunarLincoln adding their very own minion, we’ve added the Lincoln part of LunarLincoln full-time.

Things that get more awesome with Wiley + Jenn (+Travis) full time?

  • In-house UI/UX design
  • In-house design and usability consulting
  • Post-app launch marketing advice
  • Web development (don’t you want a nice app website, to go with that nice app?)
  • QA testing
  • Even more blogging and twittering (and more gifs)
  • More company-built products
  • Admin tasks at lightning speed (and you get an invoice, and you, and you, and you)

Doesn’t this sound nice? I think so too.

ps. I’m really excited to do this full-time.

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Sep
11

LunarNoobs We

  • Posted By : Jennifer Bennett/
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  • Under : Business

We have a new employee! (We have TWO new employees (one of which is me – but we’ll get to that later)). So who is this guy helping us write all our code now?

May I present: Travis Smith!

Travis completely bewitched us by writing the best cover letter ever... (note to future applicants – I delete emails from those who cannot form proper sentences – LunarLincoln requires a modicum of grammar skills in addition to coding skills). It was as follows:

Hello Mr. President,

 

One score and two years ago my founding father brought forth on this continent a new programmer, conceived in happiness, and dedicated to the proposition that all developers are created equal.

 

Now we are engaged in a great job hunt, testing whether that programmer, or any programmer so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.  We are met on a great medium of that hunt, the Internet.  We have come to dedicate an application with that medium, as an initial starting place that that programmer might work.  It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

 

My name is Travis Smith and I’m looking for a software development job near Nashville.  Today I found LunarLincoln and was immediately drawn by its professional yet energetic and fun attitude.  While I am still a young, blossoming developer, I feel my eagerness to learn, my propensity to retain knowledge, my drive to succeed, and my clever wit would be a great asset to your team.  I don’t have the most experience with app development or procedural languages but you can bet I’d pick up the skills like a Roomba picks up dirt: quietly and routinely but at the end of the day you’ll be very satisfied with my work.  Attached is my resume for your viewing convenience.  If you need further convincing feel free to contact me any way you’d like.

 

The moon looks great by the way; I love what you’ve done with the place.

We loved it (plus he seemed to be a pretty good coder, which doesn’t hurt). After interviewing him (and many other applicants) we, of course, picked Travis.

So who is this kid?

Travis_LLHeadshotTravis is originally from Melbourne, Florida, and we’ve pulled him all the way up to Nashville – to similar hot, armpit weather minus the lovely beach. So far he seems to like it (or at least he claims to). He graduated from University of Florida, Gainesville cum laude with a degree in Computer Science and has past experience at VeriFone, Tyco International, and Tata Consultancy. In his free time he built and maintained a League of Legends leaderboard.

Currently Travis is absorbing all of WIley’s skills at light speed levels and we’re glad he’s joined the team.

Never leave us. Never.

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