I've been a Futureland user since its early days. It's been a great tool to keep me working towards a goal (I originally joined as a way to keep myself honest in a personal commitment to "create something every day"). 500+ days later and I've seen huge improvements in my creative output. The FL team has been making steady improvements since the beginning and it has become a much more generalized "creative journaling" tool. It's really cool to see the variety of projects, large and small, that the FL community is involved in.
Futureland is where I'm spending a majority of my time online these days. It's one of those special, quiet, safe places on the internet where it feels like a true community / family is growing together. In a way it's hard to describe, and it's an open enough format where we all seem to be using the tool in our own unique way. I've been hanging out there since this past spring. Having this space to store my process has had numerous types of impact on the design, business, and personal projects I'm working on. <3
I like FL. A strange place, but onto something: sharing process rather than end product. Individual progress tracking, open journal, comments — the coolest part though is the Daily feature in which you choose the journals (think activities) you want to do, well, daily... and then check them off every day. A more process oriented way of organizing your day’s work rather than time based, which I think is especially useful for free agents, artists, creators, etc.