Shifd, a product born from the BBC Hack Day London competition has launched in Beta today. I’m going to play around with it this week but it seems like it might be a decent way to send yourself reminders/todos and have access to them from multiple machines (including your mobile).
[Shift] sends your content to the cloud to make it easily accessible from your computer, phone or other devices. The service works like this: let’s say you see a headline for a news story that sounds interesting, you can clip it and read it later on any device. If you are at a restaurant, you can send yourself a message with the name of the wine you enjoyed, so you can buy it later. Or, when you are at the grocery store, you can pull up the recipe you wanted to make for dinner to ensure you have all the right ingredients.
What remains to be seen is whether or not they’ve found a way to make accessing these reminders/todo easy to integrate into one’s existing workflow (this is where most of these kinds of services ultimately fail.
Check out the site here.
Read more about the launch here.