Relatively Early

As freelancers, Ross and I have a lot of meetings. Often we can’t both be at a meeting and one of us has to take notes. Usually we would email these notes to each other. When one of us has a question, we email that question to each other and to the client, resulting in a large mess of spaghetti email. This is where RedMinutes comes in.

With RedMinutes, you can upload your notes and it will split them up into sections for commenting. RedMinutes works best when you format your notes using Textile. You can then invite your clients or anyone else that you’re working with. You can comment on individual sections or on the note as a whole.

RedMinutes was our Rails Rumble entry. If you like it, vote for us" and make sure to check out all of the other cool projects on the Rails Rumble homepage in a few days.

Welcome to the blog of Relatively Early Development. Please excuse the current blandness. For the time being, we’re running a vanilla install of Chyrp so we can devote our time to our projects (aren’t we diligent?). We’ll be crafting a site for ourselves as we chug along.

Since this is the first blog post, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about some of redlists’s features.

Redlists is our mailing list application/service that aims to do away with a lot of the hassle mailing list systems are plagued with.
The philosophy: Administrators do basically one thing—write emails, and subscribers have complete control over their involvement.

The most important feature of a mailing list application is the ability to send messages. You may notice the attachment field. You can attach audio files, image files, word documents, zip files, PDFs, and text files. You can even save messages as drafts that you can edit later.

Managing users is a piece of cake with redlists; that is, you usually don’t have to. Users can add themselves and they can remove themselves. You can, however, change a users function, or, if you are moving from another mailing list system, you can import your subscribers.

Ross and I will keep this blog updated with future updates.