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Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by ihodes »

chetan51 wrote: post #18
masnick wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would actually prefer not to have todos mixed in. IMHO, todos just clutter up a calendar (I've tried them in every single calendar app I've ever used that supports them, and stopped using them). The problem I think is that calendars never seem to do todos as well as dedicated apps (or a plain text file for that matter, which is what I use now). To me this feature often seem tacked on. Just my two cents. I'm sure ot…

I was thinking of making todos part of a panel on the right that also includes canned events, stuff to be working on today based on due dates later in the week, and other such lists of items that you can easily pull into today's agenda. This side panel would be able to slide open and closed, so it won't clutter up the interface. What do you think?

For me, todos wouldn't add much. Todos require something with more sophistication than any calendaring apps I use (BusyCal, iCal or GoogleCal, all at different times.); I use Things, and could probably stand to move to OmniFocus.

You can't beat the frictionless entry of a native application, and it's probably not worth trying. Right now, with some improvements, I can see your app as a way to either replace my current calendar (doubtful right now…native + natural language entry via AlfredApp and QuickCal is hard to beat), OR a way to fluidly plan my day/week in real-time, changing it as I need it. A way, more than anything else, to keep me focused by shooing out any thoughts of planning.

But I may not be your ideal user, and this would be a new tool with efficacy TBD.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by Stuk »

I really like this idea, and have been meaning to code up something similar for a while. A few points:

* I would like to set lengths of time shorter than 15 mins. * If you visit a URL like http://timeslot.me/agendas/#day/2011-4-29 without being logged in then the interface appears, and slightly works. A redirect to the login would be better * As others have mentioned, drag/drop of tasks and length would be great * And a random idea: I would quite like to have a "repository" (todo list) of tasks with the length already set which I could drag onto a day.

With the drag and drop functionality I would happily pay a few dollars per month for something like this.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by OoTheNigerian »

jaxn wrote: post #10
csomar wrote: post #3

This is a great start to solve the calendar and time management problem. Here are a few points. 1. The Mobile App will be a killer feature. I'm not in front of the computer 24/7, but my mobile is. It's faster and quicker to take my mobile and start typing. 2. Your App works for daily usage. However, I can plan things on the morning but I can also plan them a day or more before that. There is a need that your app acco…

I would love it if this had Google calendar integration As well. Particularly if it pulled in my appointments for the day and let me schedule around them.

Google calendar/Thunderbird's lightning integration will make me use it as that is where my scheduling already takes place.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

chetan51 wrote: post #5
csomar wrote: post #3

This is a great start to solve the calendar and time management problem. Here are a few points. 1. The Mobile App will be a killer feature. I'm not in front of the computer 24/7, but my mobile is. It's faster and quicker to take my mobile and start typing. 2. Your App works for daily usage. However, I can plan things on the morning but I can also plan them a day or more before that. There is a need that your app acco…

Thanks for your feedback! 1. Yes, I will definitely be making a mobile version of the app. Maybe it can be part of a paid plan? 2. You can actually already plan any day of the calendar. Just click on the date of the agenda to edit it. 3. Yup, another great idea I plan on implementing in the near future.

> 2. You can actually already plan any day of the calendar. Just click on the date of the agenda to edit it.

Editing the date of the agenda seems quite counter-intuitive. I would think that editing the date would move all of the current events to that future date.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by tomstuart »

Looks interesting, but I don't want to sign up just to try it out. Have you considered a demo mode where you can fill an empty schedule, or edit a prefilled one, without being able to save changes? That's how I'd decide whether I was interested enough to give you my email address, generate a password, etc.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by Quiark »

tomstuart wrote: post #36

Looks interesting, but I don't want to sign up just to try it out. Have you considered a demo mode where you can fill an empty schedule, or edit a prefilled one, without being able to save changes? That's how I'd decide whether I was interested enough to give you my email address, generate a password, etc.

Exactly. Now I have to go through countless number of clicks (register, check email, click on the activation link, confirm activation, insert login details again) just to try the service.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by jkahn »

jkahn wrote: post #29

I'm a business guy that has a lot of meetings. Why would I use this and not Outlook?

I'm surprised I haven't had an answer to this. I thought I was the target market.

This looks like an inferior web based edition of Exchange/Outlook functionality. It was a serious question - is there an advantage to using this? If not, you might need to do some market research to better target the problem you are trying to solve.

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