I am currently the dev manager for three teams. I end up sitting in meetings much of the day and help assign and receive action items. Generally these are not even called out as action items, but if they are, I get them (at best) in an email. Sometimes the action items are at the end of a word doc, attached to an email. Also know as, generally, lost.
For ages I have wanted a dumb solution and recently I put up a new site (Action-Items.com) to help out. It is a google appengine site, and yes, rather simple. The vision is that you would come and enter your action items, give them a priority and tags if you like, then order on priority and filter on the tags. Rather simple, but I think even as it is, it can help solve my problem.
If you visit the site, you will notice that for now, there isn’t really anything there until you login with a google account.
Near term features include being able to assign action items with others, accept (or refuse) assigned action items, search on the full text of the action items, maybe have groups of users, and allow read only access to the items. I think that would be a pretty useful product.
Oh, and for the mrs, I plan on sometime changing the font 🙂
Feedback (feedback @ holaservers.com) would be much appreciated.
Enjoy!
Earl