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Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by mAritz »

I like it.

A couple of issues I had:

- There is no easy way to select a bunch of tasks

- If you have selected a bunch of tasks, that's no use because you can't change them all at once (like assigning someone to an entire subtree, or setting a date)

- (WRONG there is a keyboard shortcut overview in the help) I have no idea what keyboard shortcuts exist and there doesn't seem to be a page that lists them and only sporadic hints on the elements themselves

- Links between tasks can make things very messy, but I'm unsure whether this actually gets problematic with more use

- For proper project management priorities are important and should be settable

- Tasks should maybe have optional weighting so that if you have 2 subtasks, marking one as done doesn't mean the task is 50% done

- Performance seems sub-optimal. While I don't experience problems during use, it is eating quite a lot of CPU power for me for things like moving around. Not a huge problem and I'm not sure this can be changed easily. Speculation: Maybe using a canvas renderer (2d or webgl if available) could prove faster. (http://jonobr1.github.io/two.js/ maybe?)

edit: Some form of hover effect on interactive elements would help (like on the icons below a task)

edit2: Found the keyboard shortcuts

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by mAritz »

michael_p wrote: post #18
JangoSteve wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Normally, I'd completely agree that if it's a feature people want, then they can pay for it. But SSL isn't just about protecting the person's data, it's about preventing people from snooping their login credentials over unencrypted traffic (e.g. at a coffee shop). If they use the same login as their email or other accounts, then by excluding SSL from any tier, you're putting those users at risk, not just within your…

You're completely right and in fact all URLs where your login credentials are transfered (login, signup, change password) are guaranteed to be SSL regardless of which plan you're on.

You should also serve the pages on which the login/signup/changepassword forms are over SSL.

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by rubinelli »

michael_p wrote: post #18
JangoSteve wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Normally, I'd completely agree that if it's a feature people want, then they can pay for it. But SSL isn't just about protecting the person's data, it's about preventing people from snooping their login credentials over unencrypted traffic (e.g. at a coffee shop). If they use the same login as their email or other accounts, then by excluding SSL from any tier, you're putting those users at risk, not just within your…

You're completely right and in fact all URLs where your login credentials are transfered (login, signup, change password) are guaranteed to be SSL regardless of which plan you're on.

If SSL is too expensive for the Basic plan, consider dropping it altogether, or increasing it to EUR 9.95. You can also slash the free plan in half (1 project, 5 MB, 50 tasks) to encourage people to move on to paid; one project is more than enough to decide if the tool is for you.

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by michael_p »

robert_tweed wrote: post #20

Looks awesome and I'm definitely going to be trying this out. My only initial concern is about how quickly I can input a long list of tasks. I don't see anything to add a sibling tasks; a button (with keyboard shortcut) for this would definitely speed that up. Also, it would be nice if when editing a task, it could centre itself onscreen or display the text you're typing in a floating box. Otherwise you quickly find…

Thanks for your feedback! You can create sibling tasks using the Enter-key and subtasks with Tab. Tablet: Depending on what tablet you have the web-version might work but we also plan to build native apps.

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by nollidge »

leetrout wrote: post #15

"At least 5 characters, only letters and numbers please." It's 2013. Why are there still constraints on what characters can be use for a password? I would love to hear from the author why this is the case.

At least they tell you what's allowed. My favorite is when I put in a password that's rejected with an ambiguous message. Or, even better, when my bank accepted my password but it actually didn't handle whatever punctuation was in it correctly, so that changing my password succeeded but I couldn't log in at all (I was using KeePass, so it wasn't typos).

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by xiadz »

masnick wrote: post #13
cheez wrote: post #10

Does anyone's mind actually ever work like this? Mindmaps drive me insane.

I think some people actually do think like this, but I'm with you: I can't imagine how this is more helpful than a linear list.

It is more helpful in the same way as binary tree search is better than linked list traversal.
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