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Re: Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

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Post by AdamGibbins »

This looks amazing, but unfortunately is missing some core features I need for my workflow.

- Import via an open API - I have many inputs, including Email, Kanban boards, bug trackers etc - I want to write my own integrations.

- Defer dates - I have a lot of stuff, I do not want visibility of stuff until I can actually action it.

- Reviews - this is critical to handling large quantities of todo items, regular reviews is a must, I want to be able to tag items/headers with a review schedule.

- Recurrence - I do things once a week, I need to be able to schedule this. Alternatively integration with Google Calendar so it can trigger recurring items.

Re: Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

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Post by gwatters »

Zakuzaa wrote: post #18
gwatters wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad you like it nnain! We also spent a lot of time looking at different organization options prior to starting Moo.do and weren't happy with what they provided (usually at a cost!). If there's a killer feature that would make Moo.do a better experience for you we'd love to hear about it. The size of the android install is a little on the large size, but we're using https://crosswalk-project.org/ instead of the nativ…

How much time did it take you (and team) to build moo.do? Also, what's in the feature pipeline?

Our first commit to our active repository was 7/16/12, so it's been a while coming. Our team of two has put Moo.do through a bunch of iterations and some massive changes since then.

We're currently focused on enhancing our agenda/calendar experience and integrating additional services and data sources into Moo.do. Is there a feature that you would be particularly excited to see?

Re: Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

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Post by gwatters »

dnlrn wrote: post #19

Hey this is awesome! I love it. I have one serious bug tho. I'm a german user with a german keyboard and I'm not able to add a ":" (for example to add a time). I have to copy and paste it manually. When I try to enter a ":", a ">" appears instead. I am using Chromium 37 under Arch Linux (everything german).

Glad you're enjoying Moo.do!

Thanks for the bug report - we are actively looking at a couple of internationalization issues. If you run into more please send an email to contact@moo.do and we will make sure it is handled.

Re: Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

#24

Post by gwatters »

kingnight wrote: post #20

I know this is a pretty open/flexble tool — but from looking at the examples and trying out the web/app I have a few questions: - What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header? - How are notifications in the app (ios) incorporated. Do they notify based on "@date time" of item? - How might this be used as a notepad. It seems like a big aspect of it is the crossing-off of items? - Does @tom…

Thanks for taking the time to learn more about Moo.do!

> What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header?

Sharing and collaboration works at a document level. I have a separate document if I need to collaborate with someone on a unique topic and have multiple top-level headers in a single document for broad organization within a single topic.

> How are notifications in the app (ios) incorporated. Do they notify based on "@date time" of item?

Each item that specifies a time of day using ‘@date time’ will get a notification 30 minutes before it is due. Items that do not have an exact time mentioned (like 3:00pm) will not cause a notification. [This is not currently working on iOS 8 and we have an update waiting for review.]

> How might this be used as a notepad. It seems like a big aspect of it is the crossing-off of items?

We’ve tried to keep the app as close to just editing text as possible. You can type like you would in Notepad or a Word/Google document with no problems. All of our features are there if you would like to use them but will stay out of your way if you don’t.

> Does @tomorrow turn into @today in the document when a day has passed. Same w/ @today to @yesterday etc?

Yes - we rollover dates that change meaning as the current day change. If you want to ‘pin’ an item to stay visible to you, you could set a priority on the item or mark it as @now or @soon.

We have plans to add additional sources of contacts (and other services) to the app. Having first and third party plugins for adding content and viewing data in different ways is a big part of our goal.

Re: Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

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Post by kingnight »

gwatters wrote: post #24
kingnight wrote: post #20

I know this is a pretty open/flexble tool — but from looking at the examples and trying out the web/app I have a few questions: - What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header? - How are notifications in the app (ios) incorporated. Do they notify based on "@date time" of item? - How might this be used as a notepad. It seems like a big aspect of it is the crossing-off of items? - Does @tom…

Thanks for taking the time to learn more about Moo.do! > What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header? Sharing and collaboration works at a document level. I have a separate document if I need to collaborate with someone on a unique topic and have multiple top-level headers in a single document for broad organization within a single topic. > How are notifications in the app (ios) incorpo…

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. That all makes sense and is what I would have hoped to be the case.

I see below too that you've spent a lot of time on this — it definitely shows. I am already finding the keyboard shortcuts and text manipulation to exceed my expectations a web-app that's based on a giant free-form textbox.

A couple comments on the iOS app. I am running iOS 8 so maybe these are known issues awaiting an Apple approval... Both the keyboard and horizontal position in the stack seem to get stuck often.

An example to cause this would be to tap into an existing item while the keyboard is up to reposition the cursor ... if I pan right/left it'll start to pan the view left/right along with it which will persist once I'm done. Swiping left/right after this will keep this offset. The keyboard too also sticks to a certain degree in these position changes.

Re: Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

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Post by Zakuzaa »

gwatters wrote: post #24
kingnight wrote: post #20

I know this is a pretty open/flexble tool — but from looking at the examples and trying out the web/app I have a few questions: - What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header? - How are notifications in the app (ios) incorporated. Do they notify based on "@date time" of item? - How might this be used as a notepad. It seems like a big aspect of it is the crossing-off of items? - Does @tom…

Thanks for taking the time to learn more about Moo.do! > What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header? Sharing and collaboration works at a document level. I have a separate document if I need to collaborate with someone on a unique topic and have multiple top-level headers in a single document for broad organization within a single topic. > How are notifications in the app (ios) incorpo…

>>viewing data in different ways

Could you elaborate on that?

Re: Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

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Post by stmchn »

I just started using this and I'm already a complete convert! I've been using google keep, any.do, and google calendar to keep track of slightly different things since no one app fit all my needs. But moo.do actually seems flexible enough to handle everything I use those 3 apps for!

I've only been using it for a couple hours but I've already transferred everything I have from my other apps to it and I'm already fluent in using all the shortcuts. I also really like the flexibility you get from being able to add any number of panes emacs-style. I'm able to have a normal pane open focused on work stuff, a timeline pane open filtered for @today, and another normal pane open to capture random thoughts and to-dos I want to jot down. It's already made me insanely productive.

One nitpick I have is that I wish that searching on certain dates would also pick up equivalent references to that date. For example, I've entered some tasks as @wednesday but other tasks as @october1. It would be awesome if I were able to search on @wednesday and also pick up the tasks tagged @october1. Also having recurring tasks would be awesome too.

Re: Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

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Post by gwatters »

stmchn wrote: post #27

I just started using this and I'm already a complete convert! I've been using google keep, any.do, and google calendar to keep track of slightly different things since no one app fit all my needs. But moo.do actually seems flexible enough to handle everything I use those 3 apps for! I've only been using it for a couple hours but I've already transferred everything I have from my other apps to it and I'm already fluen…

Glad you're enjoying it! Great idea about the date searching, we've added it to our list of work.

Re: Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

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Post by gwatters »

kingnight wrote: post #25
gwatters wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for taking the time to learn more about Moo.do! > What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header? Sharing and collaboration works at a document level. I have a separate document if I need to collaborate with someone on a unique topic and have multiple top-level headers in a single document for broad organization within a single topic. > How are notifications in the app (ios) incorpo…

Hi, Thanks for taking the time to reply. That all makes sense and is what I would have hoped to be the case. I see below too that you've spent a lot of time on this — it definitely shows. I am already finding the keyboard shortcuts and text manipulation to exceed my expectations a web-app that's based on a giant free-form textbox. A couple comments on the iOS app. I am running iOS 8 so maybe these are known issues aw…

We appreciate the bug report, we will look into this for our next app release.

Let us know if we're missing any keyboard shortcuts that would be useful to you! My favorite one that got added recently (and as a result is currently undocumented) is using alt+shift+up/down arrows to move items around.

Re: Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

#30

Post by gwatters »

Zakuzaa wrote: post #26
gwatters wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for taking the time to learn more about Moo.do! > What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header? Sharing and collaboration works at a document level. I have a separate document if I need to collaborate with someone on a unique topic and have multiple top-level headers in a single document for broad organization within a single topic. > How are notifications in the app (ios) incorpo…

>>viewing data in different ways Could you elaborate on that?

In addition to adding more services and content types accessible through Moo.do, we would like to add more ways to view that content.

So for example we currently have two ways of viewing your data within Moo.do (what we call a 'Normal Pane' and a 'Timeline Pane'. The 'Normal Pane' displays as a hierarchical text document. The 'Timeline Pane' displays your items ordered by due date and priority. Both of these operate on the same data but the end result is different.

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