Sure, send me a private message here.

PS I love SimpleChord, I've been using it for years (and registered it) !

I guess I should have said a little more :).

The tentative title of the app is Shovebox. Quite simply, it's an icon that sits in your menubar waiting for you to shove stuff into it. Here's how:

That website someone just sent you that looks awesome but you just can't check out this second? Drag it from your browser or the IM into Shovebox.

A good paragraph that just won't fit the way it is? Drag it up there.

That sudden crazy idea for a new short story? Press a key combination in whatever app you're in, and Quick Jot comes up. Type, press enter, and away it goes.

Then, when you've got a second, click on Shovebox and select "Organizer". From there, you can create folders to organize all that stuff in the Inbox section, OR just drag the items straight out of it to where they belong.

It'll be cheap, lightweight, fast, and always waiting there to quickly capture stuff you can't deal with now, so you can focus on what you need to.
There are a lot of features I've been toying around with that have the potential to be really useful, but I keep on having trouble deciding, so I figure I ought to talk to some potential users to get ideas, rather than the way I personally would want to use the app.

Some background on me: I'm a college student with a dinky Mac shareware company. My current major product is a little app called SimpleChord for creating chord progressions. I also have a freeware (Cocoa) game calld Otis out. Next month, after I finish up my freshman year, I'm going to be interning at a web company in the fine city of Boston and hopefully having enough energy left over after work to get this app out and improve my shareware business.

I've tried a lot of GTD/organization apps, and I've never been quite satisfied, so I figured with this I might try to come up with some better ideas.

Some screenshots (keep in mind it's very early in the development process and lots of GUI imperfections I haven't ironed out yet):

Hey, that looks like a neat app. My menubar's a bit crowded, but I think an app like that would be worth it. Sign me up!

Hey.
That sounds like a really useful app.
I would love to try it out and test it for you.

Mike.

My menubar is crowded as well but I would make some room to play with this.

Thanks for all the replies!

I'm aiming to have a decent enough build as a developer release (non-feature-complete, unstable) by May 1.

Right now, I've been deliberating over a "Rules" feature that I've partially implemented. The idea is that if you drag in an item that meets certain criteria, than it can perform certain actions with it. Move it to a certain folder, apply a certain label, etc. Do you think that would be a useful feature?

The conflict I have now with it is that I have a "compose" feature which (without rules) makes a new entry, puts it in the inbox, and opens it up for editing. There's kind of a UI issue of when is the item actually saved (and ready for sorting).

I've made some progress with it, almost ready to have a Developer Release 1.

For those who are interested in helping with development, I'll be posting stuff here:
http://lists.wonderwarp.com/listinfo.cgi/shovebox-dev-wonderwarp.com

Subscribe to the list (it's completely safe/private/non-spammy).

Thanks!

Woohoo! Almost ready for a first developer release. I had cold feet for a while, but this app is coming together. Please sign up for the discussion list (see above post) if you're interested.

I just got rules support finished -- it works a lot like Mail's.

One thing that will be added in the next couple developer releases as I ramp it up will be more ways to send stuff to it. I'm really hoping on having a Quicksilver plugin for this, and possibly a dashboard widget.

Here's the logo:

So here's the status on this. I've got two developer releases out now, working on the third. I'm going to be at my very first WWDC next week where, among other things, I can hopefully pimp the app and get some feedback. It's really coming together now. Most of the stuff left to do is just polish.

and....holy moley...ShoveBox is out publicly at 1.0! Check it out:

http://www.wonderwarp.com

Thanks, Mike, and all the other 43f folks who helped me with this! I couldn't have done it without you.