Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

I've been using an odd thing called "idonethis," which bills itself as "team progress tracking" software, for several years; the pitch is that you can write down a few things in 30 seconds, so other people you're working with can see what got done and share plans. There was also a free single-user mode. The site would send out daily emails, prompting a reply with what I'd done that day, and reminding me of what I'd done a week, or month, or three or six months, earlier.

I started using this after roadnotes mentioned it; she liked it despite the ungrammatical name because it helped her remember that she had in fact done something useful or interesting most days. Sometime in the last week, they quietly discontinued the free service. I went to log into the site this afternoon, to jot down some things I'd done, and was asked for a credit card number and told that my free trial expires in three days.

idonethis is cute, but it's not worth $5/month to me, so I guess I'm done with it. Mostly, I'm going to miss the way the "what have you done today?" emails were an ongoing low-key reminder of roadnotes.