(video will appear in a giant pop up for high res viewing)

Notes:

1.  Keep your eyes peeled for your invitation.  The first group will be the folks we selected from the last blog post, then we’ll start sending the invitations to 10,000 users at a time.

2.  As we send out the invitations we’ll be keeping an eye on customer feedback very closely, rapidly making additional improvements and solving problems.

3.  If you experience any trouble at all during the upgrade, please don’t hesitate to submit a ticket to our help desk.

4.  Finally, remember that this is just the beginning of a new era.  This new interface packs some pretty serious punch already, but there is much much more to come.

Meanwhile, back at the re-boot …

Now, would you like a sneak peak before the rest of the world?

We’ll roll it out to 10 of the most hard core Simpleology users before everyone else.  Is that you?  If so, tell us in the comments below why we should pick you first and maybe we will …

But first, here’s another hint about where we’re going with all this … The changes are much more radical than you may imagine (as will be the new improvements to your productivity).

Can you relate?  I imagine you can, or you wouldn’t be using Simpleology.  But we can do even better … A lot better.

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The solution:  the mystery icon represents a feature that, while very cool, is actually the least interesting of the new features coming soon:  ”The shortcut canvas.”  In the new system, you’ll have a fully customizable canvas of shortcuts to the lists you use most often and any web links you’d like to include.  When you click the icon, it opens up and lets you edit/add your shortcuts.  Many users let us know that there are lists they use all the time and would like to navigate to them quickly.  As always … we’re listening.

The winners:  Free elite access for life – speekpeep8 | Esmart (no one got it, but these two were closest – we picked two instead of one), elite for a year for funniest answer – Simon Thomas (hillarious – and also an inspired, yet creepy, send up of personal development companies), elite free for a year at random draw – michellgower | DanniB1990 | heffernank | AndrewMason | HopefulOne (we promised three – we picked five – including the first poster … hint, hint).

If you are an existing user of the Simpleology Browser Add-On for Chrome, click here to download the new version.  (Simpleology Pro account or higher required.)

If you want to learn more about the other procrastination-busting features it comes toting (e.g. block time wasting websites when you’re focusing, Dream Catcher anywhere, etc) click here to read all about it.

And here is a quick how-to video showing you how to activate and use it.

(total viewing time: 2 minutes 21 seconds)

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This little cartoon panel shows just one way to use Engines that is probably not readily apparent to most … Can you think of others? (comment below)

And here’s a quick video showing you exactly how to do that when you log in …

(total viewing time: 1 minutes 45 seconds)

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Short version: That which you measure, improves. Start recording stuff (any “stuff” – your body fat percentage, push-ups, sales, whatever …) in Trackers and the act of doing so will cause you to improve it.

But most people forget the second part of Pearson’s law …

“That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.”

With the new “Publish Trackers” feature, you can report what you track to the world – dynamically in real-time – by pasting a single line of code to your blog or website.

As you can see here, it will produce a dynamic real-time line diagram that would make Edward Tufte proud:

And you can display it in an almost infinite variety of shapes …

… sizes ….

… and colors. …

How do you do it? It’s so easy, you can learn to do it in less than a minute …

Step 1. Visit the Trackers page and click on the new “publish” button …

Step 2. You’ll see this pop up … Tweak the options. Copy the code.

Step 3. Paste it into any website or blog.

That’s it.

This feature is available to all Simpleology account types. Use it for diet and exercise progress, fund raising goals, sales … Anything.

Now go forth and start reporting!

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We thought we addressed this with the Wimiki, because it allows you to establish Reminders and Routines, but that wasn’t really enough.

So, we’ve just added a new Recurring Tasks module to Start My Day, and a few other enhancements to make Lists even more useful.  Here’s a quick screen capture video to show you how to use both features …

(total viewing time: 6 minutes 44 seconds)

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Alas, such a task is outside the reach of our engineers (for now!), but Engines are still very cool …

This short video explains the concept.  If you don’t have the patience for video, read on …

(total viewing time: 9 minutes 10 seconds)

The big idea:  create an unlimited number of automation tasks based on an increasing number of possible conditions.

In English …

1.  You can now create Engines based on the following three parameters:

When this happens …

Do this …

To this …

For example, maybe you’d like to create a little robot servant engine that will do this for you automatically:

“When I add an item to the Dream Catcher that starts with “BTR” move the entry to my Mental Lock Box under the category books to read.”

Engines can do that, and a lot more.

2.  Over time we’ll add new “conditions” for you to program, making it increasingly powerful as the weeks pass.

3.  To start, we’ve included the ability to “do things” when you enter stuff into your Dream Catcher.  For example, sometimes you may want to add stuff to a list quickly (like a “books I want to read” list).  Or maybe you want something to go straight to your Mental Lock Box.  Or, maybe … (let your imagination run wild)

Example of an engine in action …

Because I programmed the shortcut phrase “BTR” in Engines to mean “move the entry to the Mental Lock Box under category books to read,” any time I enter something into the Dream Catcher that starts with BTR it bypasses the Dream Catcher so I don’t have to process it when I do Start My Day.

Here’s how I programmed it …

Does that make sense?

Probably not … So scroll up and watch the video!

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