Hey, looks pretty great I think it can come in handy! One thing I'd change is maybe add an option to disable/speed up animations.
Good idea, I think I'll add a setting for speeding them up.
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#12Friendly note: the landing page, looks like you intended it to be mobile-friendly, but the images don't properly scale to the screen size, screwing up the layout a bit.
Thanks for the hint! Will try to fix it.
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#13Interesting, today in Show HN: hit two task managers yours and https://tweek.so :-)
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#14Some of the controls are a bit disorienting. All observations below are from the demo: 1) When I create a goal, theres no obvious way that the goal is "created". I just press the back button? The send-comment button was where I initially tried to confirm that a goal had been created. 2) When I create a subtask, and then exit the subtask menu to get to the first task, it gives me a blank page. I really really like the…
Thanks, great observations.
1) Right now the back button saves the Ploc. You're completely right that the comment button looks like it might do that. We did not consider that this when we moved the comment button there...
2) This is a bug in the demo, unfortunately. I'm working on it!
I had not tested the demo extensively yet so this obvious bug slipped through unfortunately. It should work in the actual application / app in case you want to try it.
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#15I use Todoist heavily, but I wish it was more focused on long-term goals. E.g., it doesn't support visualizations or a task having multiple dependencies. These are nice features of Plocs - I wish you success with this!
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#16The website is not responsive (seems to be just the homepage that is broken)
It seems to work for me right now.
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#17I think this hits on one key thing that's missing from many TODO lists I've tried: dependencies are important.
But the UI feels big and slow and cumbersome. Entering all my sub-tasks is tedious in a way that a simple bullet list is not.
I just want to type in "Reproduce bug => Fix bug => Post PR => Deploy fix". The big main goal might have a deadline and title and description, but the level of granularity I want means that I don't have time/need to do that for each item. I don't need these animations and full-screen data entry pages. Even the fact that I have to use the mouse with each item is too much friction for me.
I also think the overall TODO list view is missing the key purpose: at a glance, I want to see the specific "what should I do right now" item(s). The big flowchart distracts me from the immediate focus.
Obviously, you probably don't want to fully rewrite the UI for my idiosyncrasies, but I would recommend making adding small, simple tasks very quick and easy. Maybe just tab/shift-tab to add a "next" and "before" tasks without jerking me into a separate view or forcing me to switch from keyboard to mouse.
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#18Some of the controls are a bit disorienting. All observations below are from the demo: 1) When I create a goal, theres no obvious way that the goal is "created". I just press the back button? The send-comment button was where I initially tried to confirm that a goal had been created. 2) When I create a subtask, and then exit the subtask menu to get to the first task, it gives me a blank page. I really really like the…
The bug when exiting the subtask menu in the demo should be fixed now.
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#19Not thrilled at how hidden the business model is. There's no paid option, just targeted ads (as noted in the privacy policy about how your information is used).
Unfortunately, this means that it's not for me. For whatever that's worth. :)
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#20Not thrilled at how hidden the business model is. There's no paid option, just targeted ads (as noted in the privacy policy about how your information is used). Unfortunately, this means that it's not for me. For whatever that's worth. :)
Thanks for the feedback.
We are planning to add a paid version for business customers in the long term.
Not planning to have ads targeted or otherwise. I will remove this from the privacy policy.