If you ask me, if there’s one trait that unites the Web 2.0 world, it’s the love for posting comments. So one day we thought to ourselves, why not let people work, the way they like to play? Now it’s not entirely the most original of thoughts but we figured that if we apply it to Remindo’s User Experience, people might find their company Intranets more useful, and more fun. It was our ‘what an idea, Sergei!’ moment.

Without further ado, presenting, the ability to comment on everything inside Remindo!

This means that you can now comment on milestones, task lists, tasks and of course, files.  And it gets better, you can attach files of up to 200 MB each as attachments to these comments.

You will find this feature especially useful if multiple people are working on a common activity. By commenting on the milestone/task itself, you will be able to keep all communication and files related to that event in one tidy thread that everyone can see.  Doing this via comments will ensure that everyone stays in the loop and the team knows exactly what the status of the work is.

Contrast this to the hundreds of emails that your team would otherwise send to each other to plan work and later to frantically follow up to ensure that everything’s on schedule. It will save you hours worth of productive time every day.

So now if you need to ask a question related to a milestone, just post it as a comment. If you want to keep a record of how much time you spent on a task, just post it there. If you want to brainstorm around a deadline, just spark it off as a comment. If a bunch of you are working on a document, just attach updated version to your comments.  If you want to get feedback on some design that you have been working on, just post the file and ask for comments.

The possibilities are endless!

PS: We’ve even been told of a web development company that’s using Remindo as a replacement for bugzilla. Apparently every time they make a release, they post the release notes on their intranet. The bugs are logged as comments and assigned to the development team as tasks. True story.