Soroush Javidi

For a while now, I've been playing the Stikkit API and trying to find a way to quickly add and view todos without having to go the website itself. If you're a fan of Netvibes or iGoogle for a quick overview of your favourite web content, then you may be interested in my Stikkit widget! Here are the features:

• View todos, in a list and also with details showing as a tooltip
• Control the number of todos being shown
• Search by tags
• Create Stikkits
• Check off Stikkits that you've done.

Here are some screenshots: See your todo Stikkits. The details are shown in a tooltip. You can also check off todos that you've done (image above).

Write a stikkit... simple!

Change the settings as you wish. Add your API Key and choose how many undone todos you want to view. You also put in a tag, to only view Stikkits with a specific tag.

This widget is meant to make it easy to quickly view a todo, or post a Stikkit before you forget it! Also note that only Stikkits that are todos are shown, so peeps, bookmarks or calendar items are not shown. Don't forget, you'll need your Stikkit API Key.

Where to get the Widgets?

Add it to Netvibes:

What about iGoogle? Add the widget, but be warned that the tooltips won't show (it's a UWA thing).

What's Stikkit anyway?

For those who are not familiar, Stikkit is a website where you get to keep intelligent todos. You type in your todo in plain English and it will then recognise the important points of the todo, for example when you should do it, who you should call/see or if it should remind you... and no need to fill these in separate textboxes, which feels like filling out a form rather than jotting things down.

The technical details

The widget was written using Netvibe's API called UWA, which for someone who's good at Javascript is so easy to work with. It should take only a few hours to code the whole widget and put it together. However, I'm not good, so it took a few days! :P The good things about UWA is that once you write the code, it'll [theoretically] work with not only Netvibes, but also iGoogle and the Dashboard on Mac and even weblogs.