This is a Mac OSX Dashboard widget that provides a quick entry row for a selected Google Spreadsheet. Configuration allows login, selection from available spreadsheets and worksheets, and a configurable number of lines of context rows for display.

The Dashboard widget is written using the Google Web Toolkit and is a client side JavaScript application that uses the Google Spreadsheets Data API to read and post data.

The current release has some issues driven by limitations of the GData spreadsheet API, notably:

• Adding rows to worksheets with empty rows (other than at the end) is problematic. (The row fills in the first empty row.)
• QuickAdd (and GData) assume that row 1 holds column headers. Worksheets with missing column headers will not work.

The above means that QuickAdd currently works well with spreadsheets that have headers in the first row and no empty rows before the end, e.g.

Improvements

Things I'd like to add or see added soon:

• Specific options for each column: show/not-show, auto-fill date/time, create menu options, etc.
• Better feedback during posting