Increase Your Productivity with iRows
Keeping track of your projects (blogging or otherwise) is something that is best done on a spreadsheet. Most people use Microsoft Excel, but I have taken a shine to using an online spreadsheet service called iRows.
It has most of the things you would expect in a spreadsheet program. You can lay out information complete with formulas and whatnot and each spreadsheet can have several worksheets etc. Now, if you are wondering if it is compatible with your own spreadsheet
programs then the answer is yes. iRows allows you to import xls files
and csv files which are formats that most spreadsheet programs can work
with. I tested it with some basic formulas too and there were no
problems - you can create them on iRows or import them from your
current spreadsheets.
What I like about it is the fact that it is an online application. This improves its utility for me. I can access my spreadsheets from any computer on the internet with a simple login. More importantly, I can share those spreadsheets with others and have them work on them as well by assigning access levels to specific users.
This really increases productivity for online collaborations. Used in conjunction with BaseCamp, you bassically now have the ability to have a complete online office.
I use iRows for keeping track of the finances of my blogs as well as to-do lists that I work on with my fellow blog co-owners. It is very handy, especially if you don’t want to be worrying about sending email attachments back and forth and worry about who got which version.
Some of the things I have used iRows for:
- Contact Lists
- To Do Lists
- Finance Tracking of Specific Sites
- Collaborating on all of the Above with Blogging Partners
Now, the guys at iRows also back up data everday and save it to several different machines with data encryption. That can give security freaks peace of mind.
As I said, if you use spreadsheets a lot to organise yourself (like I do), and you would like the utility of being abl eto share real time updates with your colaborators, then this is something worth checking out.
Hi, I am Cliff from EditGrid. Besides your mentioned irows. There are similar product like EditGrid and Numbler which you may wish to take a look~
Both EditGrid and Numbler provides Real-time Update, which most of the other online spreadsheets don’t have. Please give a try~
July 31st, 2006 at 12:49 pmHi Cliff,
Thanks for stopping by. I will definitiely check out the other services ou mentioned.
Rob
August 1st, 2006 at 4:33 amHow many of these AJAX spreadsheets are there, do they have a business model, are they profitable? The calendars and customizable homepage apps. suffer this problem.
September 2nd, 2006 at 3:08 am