Planarium. General mobilization

Hello. We recently significantly updated the Planarium and are so glad that we could not help but write a post and talk about new features to the habrasociety.

The motto of this update is "universal mobilization", and, as you might guess, Planaria can now be used not only through a computer.

What you see now on the left is 1/3 of all today's innovations, a Google gadget. This particular one is from gmail. Yes, now you can manage your affairs directly from your favorite mail, quickly and conveniently. Almost all the functions of the “big” Planaria are supported: transferring tasks, creating notes with formatting, completing tasks, etc. Now you can not get out of the mail at all.



But to use the gadget, you still need a computer, and we promised that you can refuse it. The promise was kept - now Planaria also has a mobile version. Just go to planary.ru from a mobile device and you can start using it. Everything is simple there and in the style of the web of the 90s (in case the browser of your mobile phone is not at odds with JS). But asceticism! = Low functionality.
From the mobile version, you can do the same things with the affairs as on the main site, it’s just not so convenient =)

And, finally, the third third is the new jabber-bot. The old Planaria bot was not very functional and our users constantly asked us to redo it. And at the same time, we ourselves understood that the bot had to be completely rewritten.

* now some technical details will go that will be especially interesting for hackers * The

old bot was written using the xmpp4r gem. It’s just that at that moment there was no alternative. Anyone who has ever seen examples using this gem knows that there is practically no convenience there. It also turned out that with a load on the bot, he really likes to fly out.
After listening to the next issue of RailsEnvy Podcast , I heard about blather. I read, caught fire and rewrote the bot in 2 hours. True, it did not work due to errors in the blather itself, but its author turned out to be a very cool guy and quickly fixed everything. Now if the bot crashes, it’s only because of my shit code =) So if you want to write a jabber-bot for your application, I advise everyone to take a look at blather .

And now about the bot itself, here is a list of its commands:

• today <case name>; <name of the second case>; ... <name of the nth case>
• for tomorrow <case name>; <name of the second case>; ... <name of the nth case>
• for a week <case name>; <name of the second case>; ... <name of the nth case>
• next week <case name>; <name of the second case>; ... <name of the nth case>
• into chaos <case name>; <name of the second case>; ... <name of the nth case>

All the teams above operate according to the following algorithm: if you didn’t have a case, then it is created, and if there is such a case, it is transferred to the appropriate area. Also, you can immediately add a note to any business. Just indicate it after the case in brackets.

• what to do? - displays your entire to-do list for today.
• what tomorrow
• what for a week?
• what next week?
• what's in chaos?
• to archive <case number>; <case number> (here the case number coincides with the numbering of cases when using the "what to do?" command)
• to the site - will return a link where you can immediately get to the site, bypassing the authorization process.

If you don’t understand anything, then take a look at the video instruction about the bot:

Although I advise you to watch in high resolution .

That's all the updates for today.

And if you still do not understand what Planaria is, then you have several ways to close the gaps:

• try everything yourself on the site
• read other posts about Planaria on Habr
• see screencast

By the way, in order to learn about the news of the project, it is not at all necessary to wait for our post on Habr, you can also look at our blog or become our follower on Twitter .

Thank you all for your attention and further success in planning!