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Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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I will be unable to leave the stock iOS Reminders app: - I do a lot of my tasks away from my desk, so when I have my phone with me but not my laptop - A todo item without a reminder/due date is “dead” to me, it’s the reminder to actually do the thing that adds the value The stock Reminders app is the only app on iOS I know of that can keep persistent notifications on the Lock Screen, even after locking and then unloc…

I too had this problem so I developed an app that integrates Reminders and Obsidian to solve it; I create all my notes & tasks in Obsidian and my app syncs them to Reminders.app so you get the best of both worlds :)

HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764919

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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I'm curious how this is better than (or even significantly different to) Todoist [1], a well-established cross platform application which also supports natural language task creation [2] and a keyboard-driven workflow [3]. [1]: https://todoist.com/ [2]: https://todoist.com/features [3]: https://todoist.com/help/articles/use-keyboard-shortcuts-in-...

I know people really seem to love natural language task creation, but I almost always found it lacking. The date picker Things has, and Godspeed promotes, works much better for me.

It is sometimes a pain. Thankfully, Todoist has both.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Boy would I love an task manager to respect the fact that work happens in other tools, and provide a centralized layer on top of the tools I integrate with.

Sunsama is a tool like this if you use the apps it integrates with.

Saving people a click:

Integrations: Todoist ClickUp Trello Asana Notion Jira GitHub Gmail Outlook Slack

Also, they say it does timeboxing, but it's not evident they understand the notion of prioritization through pre scheduled and empty timeboxes, that tasks fill by category match, then do not overfill but spill to the next available timebox of that same category, allowing you to meta-manage your prioritization by category of task vs. amount of recurring timeboxes as a proportion of your week, rather than by task.

EDIT/ADD:

Upon review of the user manual, they seem to think "timeboxing" is the alternative to "playlisting", meaning, do you book actual time on your calendar for a task, versus, do you burn through a list of tasks when you are in task mode.

They seem to miss that timeboxing is the opposite of calendaring particular tasks, it's a third way.

If you have calendaring tasks, and playlisting tasks, timeboxing is calendaring big chunky timeboxes (not tasks) for "headspace" around sets of tasks, then playlisting the matching subset of tasks within that timebox.

There seems to be a concept of channels (#hashtags) and an ability to auto-schedule within channels, and an ability to have per channel schedules. Depending how implemented, that combination of features might allow actual timeboxing, which, incidentally, could line up well with the legitimate timeboxing offered by SavvyCal, my favorite "meet with me at a time that works for you (and me)" tool.

You should not, ever, be "dragging a task to the calendar" in timeboxing. The task should be in a class that you have a timebox for (their channels notion) and if you have unclassified tasks, you can playlist them in a "random tasks" designated timebox. To force a task to be in the next available timebox for that class, you prioritize the playlist.

Unfortunately, as someone was curious about, this doesn't support Linear, though perhaps you could do it transitively through, say, GitHub.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't a "month" risk being many days off the intended target date, since it's a non-fixed timespan? E.g. how many days is "1 month from today" (March 20)? You mention medicine, so I assume there's something obvious I'm missing (then again, perhaps the constantly shifting dates for health care appointments where I live say otherwise ;D).

You just increment the month. March 20 m+1 is April 20. If the date is invalid, like January 30 m+1 then you fallback to next valid date, February 28/29.

Well, that’s not “the month” at all, though. At least not something I’d use outside of getting a rough idea for setting the next meeting, and absolutely wouldn’t use in code (but it’s probably fine for a todo - I’m complicating things, sorry ;-))

Edit: but perhaps that’s the custom used at many places and I’m just not aware.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know people really seem to love natural language task creation, but I almost always found it lacking. The date picker Things has, and Godspeed promotes, works much better for me.

It is sometimes a pain. Thankfully, Todoist has both.

The date picker from Things and Godspeed are on a completely different level than the one from Todoist, though.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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I signed up to over 20 todo apps yesterday, and it was miserable how clumsy UI is. If you're using task management to run your life, you are dealing with tasks hundreds of times a day and it needs to be flippin' quick and versatile enough that you can actually achieve a workflow - GTD is an excellent benchmark here. Oh and all these apps don't have start date, many of them don't even have the ability to star.

Not hosting my own data is a dealbreaker though unfortunately, so I stick with 2Do which I think is massively under-rated and has brilliant sync options. 2Do is a one man band and I'm worried we might not see another version. Making smart lists based on tags, due dates, starred, and then being able to make multiple smartphone widgets for multiple lists is not something I've seen anywhere done anywhere near as good.

Godspeed OP, this looks like a great first release and hope you make it work.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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post #205

Consider making an Obsidian[^1] plugin, or writing to Obsidian-compatible Markdown files :) I use Obsidian + Rollover Todos[^2] plugin with Cmd+Enter set to cycle through checkbox states for todos. [^1]: https://obsidian.md/ [^2]: https://github.com/lumoe/obsidian-rollover-daily-todos

This could be good, however it would need an amazing panel UI to do GUI management - text only isn't quite enough IMO.

I tried hard to make task management in Obsidian a thing, and gave up, it just isn't good at it. Tasks, Checklists, all way too clumsy to rely on every day, at least for me

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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post #191

I'd love this for Nextcloud, having it sync to there, in an openly documented format. You see, I already got burned by Google Keep and their proprietary format once. So then it'd be worth it to buy an application like this with a good UI and decent keybindings. But not for this price... 150 USD for 1,5 years of software updates. Look at Sublime Text. Sublime Text 3 was released in 2013, and Sublime Text 4 in 2021. Th…

We already have CalDAV, but few implement it. I prefer using a caldav server (e.g. email host) because if you have a life in task items, and your software is proprietary and they don't care about import/export - it sucks. 2Do or OmniFocus, not seen anything better yet. I tried for ages to make tasks work in Obsidian, all the plugins, dataview setup - it just felt clumsy and kludgey to work with, so I gave up and let obsidian do what its good at, notes and templates

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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I'm curious how this is better than (or even significantly different to) Todoist [1], a well-established cross platform application which also supports natural language task creation [2] and a keyboard-driven workflow [3]. [1]: https://todoist.com/ [2]: https://todoist.com/features [3]: https://todoist.com/help/articles/use-keyboard-shortcuts-in-...

In my experience (as a long-time Vim and Vimium user), the keyboard shortcut support in Todoist was not good enough. It does cover most areas of the product, but I remember it not _feeling_ great. As if it was built first for mouse-use, with keyboard shortcuts added to it.

I tested Godspeed for 10-15 minutes, and I'm very impressed by what they built. There's a massive difference in how it feels to me.

Beyond that, I can't tell yet. Todoist certainly has an advantage in depth of the product, but for the keyboard-driven approach only, Godspeed is top notch.

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