These "applications" all share much core code: database wrappers, lifelogging, integration with 3rd party APIs. Please contact us at list-it at csail dot mit dot edu if you'd like to contact electronic Max and Zamiang (Brennan Moore), the original authors.

List-it has 3 new applications: a new Firefox Add-on, a Chrome Extension, and website. These apps have new features and were built for part of Wolfe Styke's masters thesis.

listit .. before you forget it!

Listit is a simple Firefox-based (and a Chrome Extension) note taking tool to help you manage short important notes to self. It is designed to be simple, fast and minimal so that it is easy to use and understand.

All notes are kept on your computer in your Firefox profile. You can back up your notes to a server, which you can run on your computer (requires Python+Django) or use our server hosted at MIT.

Listit can also be used as an tool for human computer interface researchers to study the in-situ use of personal note taking tools. It is instrumented to provide high fidelity activity logging and aggregation/uploading of use data, which can be enabled if desired. These fine-grained timestamped logs of when and where actions were taken (note creation, edit, and access) so can then be studied later to understand note taking practice.

getting started

The easiest way to get started is to visit our main site: listit before you forget it -- get it here

If you are a developer and wish to hack the source, go to the Source tab above to find out a way to check out the current release. Please also consider joining our Google Group where you will find helpful discussions among the core listit team and can post your own to contribute to the project.

history

Listit was created originally by MIT undergraduate Greg Vargas and graduate student electronic Max during the summer of 2008. It was designed as a successor to Jourknow, an experiment in creating a smart notebook for information scraps built the previous summer.

In September 2008, Greg, electronic, Michael Bernstein and Katrina Panovich led a study using list.it, which will appear at CHI 2009. See the paper here.

Listit and Jourknow are efforts to build tools that better capture and help organize information scraps, short important notes to self that contain valuable information. Our research effort into information scraps and other personal information management areas are led jointly by David Karger of MIT CSAIL and mc schraefel of University of Southampton.

new! google group

We have started a google group for discussing ideas, our design and development plans. Please feel free to join in the conversation or just browse. Also find experimental hacks that didn't make it into the codebase.

contacting us

Please see http://haystack.csail.mit.edu for more information or write us at listit at csail dot mit dot edu