"speed & 100% keyboard-oriented TODO app" == vim
plus you can use the same vim skills and mindspace for lots of other use cases
plus its free, offline friendly, VCS friendly, backup friendly
Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac
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#142Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac
#143Am I the only one who feels a sort of tension between the silicon-valley-chic of this website and the simplicity of the software being presented? It seems to just be a list of things with some slight structure added. The big selling-point is responsive UI, but I feel that should be the minimum we expect from software. I personally prefer a pen an paper for this kind of thing. I guess this is primarily for collaborati…
> The big selling-point is responsive UI, but I feel that should be the minimum we expect from software.
Agreed! That's a big part of what motivated us to build Godspeed.
> Perhaps some testimonials from organisations/teams that have used it would be a better thing to lead with than a strange technical statement which most users won't understand. I'm a fairly technical sort of guy myself and I don't exactly know off the top of my head what 50ms latency feels like or how it compares to other note taking software.
Appreciate that feedback! Today is our 1.0 launch, we'll definitely add some testimonials in the coming weeks.
For what it's worth, a response time of 100ms is perceived as instantaneous [0].
[0] https://www.pubnub.com/blog/how-fast-is-realtime-human-perce...
Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac
#144Am I the only one who feels a sort of tension between the silicon-valley-chic of this website and the simplicity of the software being presented? It seems to just be a list of things with some slight structure added. The big selling-point is responsive UI, but I feel that should be the minimum we expect from software. I personally prefer a pen an paper for this kind of thing. I guess this is primarily for collaborati…
> The big selling-point is responsive UI, but I feel that should be the minimum we expect from software. Agreed! That's a big part of what motivated us to build Godspeed. > Perhaps some testimonials from organisations/teams that have used it would be a better thing to lead with than a strange technical statement which most users won't understand. I'm a fairly technical sort of guy myself and I don't exactly know off…
We say "<50ms" rather than "instantaneous" because a lot of companies will claim that their software is fast and not actually meet a specific threshold. This claim keeps us from cutting corners – we're serious about keeping everything blazing fast, even if that means it takes longer to build.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How do I script it? We don't have a story for this yet, but we will. And I strongly agree about JavaScript. In fact, an idea I really like is making that API available directly in the developer console, which we have available anyway because we're an Electron app! > I won't use a to-do app without a start date. We've gotten this request before and its on our list! I also really liked this feature of OmniFocus. > I…
After that, it's going to be "encryption at rest" (if you're storing these lists as part of the service) and then various and sundry compliances. That'll open you to the enterprise market.
The nice part about E2EE is that it makes a zillion compliance issues go away. It's always encrypted at rest. It's always encrypted in transit. There are no DLP issues. There are no data sharing or processing issues. There are no multi-tenant issues. There are no law enforcement data access issues.
(All of those are for sufficiently small values of "no", perhaps literally not none whatsoever, but guaranteed better than if you're storing readable data.)
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#146Can I have it only sync through iCloud? I'm just concerned that I buy the lifetime version and then the Godspeed API disappears after a couple of years.
Unfortunately not. I can understand if that's a dealbreaker for you.
There are a few reasons we're not using iCloud: 1. We eventually intend to support other platforms, like Windows and the web. 2. Though they're admittedly rare, we've heard some iCloud horror stories. @DanielDe (OP) lost some files using iCloud Drive, so it's hard for us to trust it. 3. We wanted much tighter control over syncing to provide the particular experience we were aiming for. Things like live cursors for shared lists, and the way our offline experience works, are tightly tied into our sync engine.
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#147Well done. This is everything I love about Omnifocus but with better collaboration. If you can give me a Windows version so I can also use this on my personal workstation this is an instant buy.
Try Workflowy, it has good native and web apps and a great minimal but powerful design and is completely free. https://workflowy.com/basics/
I've tried workflowy before and it didn't stick. Something about the combined notetaking aspect made it difficult for me to conform to.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who has used every TODO method under the sun over the last 20 years and talked to other people on their own work tracking journeys, I think task management to be a deeply personal thing that has to map to how you think and do things for it to stick. Pen and paper worked great for me when I did everything at a desk (or carried a notebook with me) and I was always doing deep focus work. I went digital when I…
The Cortex Sidekick Notepad is pretty great for analog task management. Expensive, but pretty great.
I've tried it before. I didn't find it meaningfully better than a moleskine with grid paper (in some ways worse) or sticky notes around my monitor. Again, paper for task management doesn't work for me
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#149Can the keyboard shortcuts be modified? One of my personal pain points with other task managers such as Asana is that I can't remap the keyboard shortcuts. This is very important to me since I use alternative keyboard layouts such as Dvorak, Colemak, MTGAP, Graphite, and have continued to experiment with many others.
Yes! Super important feature that I'm realizing we never mention on the website, I'll have to add it. Thanks for bringing that to our attention :)
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
We use a proprietary sync engine, so there isn't some known file format you can edit. I totally understand your objection to this! We do, however, store the data locally in a sqlite database (~/Library/Godspeed/godspeed-db.sqlite). You shouldn't directly edit it or things won't sync properly, but you can use it to easily read your tasks if you'd like!
It'd be awesome if you can emit/ingest Markdown. That way, Todo can act as a different frontend to what essentially amounts to a bunch of files that I can then view via a different app.
And then you'd rather just write a plug-in for Obsidian?