Saturday, April 29, 2006

Backpack: Web based Organisation Tool


Backpack is a web based organisational tool. Features:
  • Create to do lists, notes
  • Plan a project
  • Gather information for a research project
  • Colloborate with others on your project
  • Upload and organise images
  • Upload files (for example txt or pdf files) for colloborators to download
  • Set email or sms reminders
To use my sushi project as an example, with backpack I could:
  • Do a shopping list of things to buy
  • Upload images of the ingredients
  • Upload images of the steps to make sushi
  • Create a downloadable pdf file containing all the above
  • Set an allow list for people I would like to view my project
  • Get other people in the group to add to the page
  1. Reviews of backpack could be found here
  2. Video review from Attack of the Show
  3. Link: www.backpackit.com