Today we made available the Google Desktop Gadget version of our KeepUp Widget. This gadget is very similar to our Yahoo Widget except it runs in the Google Desktop (which works on Windows and Mac). There are some small changes to the way things work.
To install the gadget, first make sure you have Google Desktop environment installed, if you dont, get it here and install it, then download the KeepUp Gadget and save it to your local hard drive in a place where you can find it. Once you have saved it, double click on it to execute it (or click open on mac), Google Desktop should recognize the file and install it to your desktop. It should open the gadget on the login screen.
Enter your user and password and click login
Once logged in you will see your 7 most pending tasks that are not complete, if they are red, they are overdue, yellow due soon and green not due for a while.
One new feature of the Google gadget is you can click on any task and it will show you all the notes for that task, just click the title of a given task.
Your tasks will refresh automatically every hour, but if you want to manually refresh, you can right click over the gadget and select refresh.
You can also click "New Task" or "View Tasks" to open your default browser and automatically login to the KeepUp service.
We hope you enjoy this new feature, as always let us know if you have suggestions for improvements!
The only problem is that the new task and the view task links on the page open a web page that is broken "Service Unavailable at this time" is the error.
Also the inability to resize the task column is a bit of a pain.
Posted by: Norm K | February 15, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Hi Norm, thanks for letting us know this "Service Unavailable at this time" issue, deployed an new release today and that caused this issue. It should be resolved now. We have also opened up an issue our database on the resize the tasks column. thanks Joel
Posted by: Joel Nylund | February 15, 2008 at 11:57 PM
I just barely signed up for GottaKeepUp because I saw a Vista Sidebar Gadget for the service... however, the Gadget didn't work, and I think I'm going to really like this service, so I got the Google desktop instead.
Long story even longer... I like the widget, but I do wish that I could resize the columns, it looks much like a screen print on my desktop and it's a bit small. Increasing the view makes it a bit blurry. So it's a good start, but if it were more customizable would be nice indeed!
Posted by: Cynthia Blue | June 20, 2008 at 11:34 AM