Stixy makes us happy
We’re trying Stixy as an internal collaborative work space for projects. As long term Basecamp users, we’re used to a digital project management solution and Basecamp works well as a tool to share with clients. However, it always seems too structured as a workspace. Stixy, however, is a free form desktop that can be used to share notes, to dos, photos, calendars and is much more intuitive for our designer minds (i.e., it allows you to be messy as well as make things pretty)!
TechCrunch provides a nice overview of Stixy, as well as calls out future enhancements that include chat/messaging as well as drag-and-drop functionality. TechCrunch also points out negatives like lack of Stixyboard ownership and file versioning. For now, we’re fine with the lack of these features as long as we can color theme our projects.
Tags: collaborative workspace
May 28th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I’m very glad to hear that Stixy makes you happy. We’re still in a very early stage of development, so expect more and improved features in the future. Please give us feedback on what works and what doesn’t.
As Techcrunch pointed out, the lack of administrator rights can be problematic. We are looking in to it, but, we try to keep the functionality as “flat” and transparent as possible. Our initial thought was that administrator rights was needed just by a few, and therefor added unnecessary complexity for most users.
Versioning of documents, however, is on our near term road map.
/jonas höglund
May 28th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Thank you for your comment. Yes, we’re liking Stixy!
We will always tend to come down on the side of simplicity in terms of admin rights, so that has not been an issue. We did see a bit of login weirdness, when responding to an invitation to join a stixyboard, but I didn’t investigate enough to provide more specifics. A new invitation solved the problem.
We have two boards going now. One initial thought I had is that it would be great to be able to group like files in some way (ex. all the initial sketch JPGs in one folder/filing cabinet/other metaphor) and I would love to be able to attach a note to a file. I don’t think either of these is possible now?
Thanks for the cool product!
Meaghan