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Re: Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac

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Post by hyperbovine » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 2:52 AM UTC

nthitz wrote: post #2

> A timeboxing app. Duh. Sorry but as developer who had to google timeboxing this immediately turned me off to your product.

On the contrary, condescension immediately ups my prior on developer's skill level.

Re: Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac

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Post by hooch » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 3:19 AM UTC

Void_ wrote: post #8

huang47 wrote: post #3

I don't get the point to use this app

It helps you with timeboxing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeboxing It helps you get things done by setting aside e.g. 20 minutes to fix bug #123. I wanted to put this up on website originally, but then decided I just want to keep it simple: http://sht.tl/jJ0J6

Nice little graphic!

Re: Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac

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Post by jh3 » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 3:19 AM UTC

suyash wrote: post #11

nthitz wrote: post #2

> A timeboxing app. Duh. Sorry but as developer who had to google timeboxing this immediately turned me off to your product.

You're a developer and don't know what TimeBoxing is? You must not have a CS degree?

I sort of agree. Isn't it obvious? It doesn't seem too difficult to deduce the definition through the definitions of the two smaller words that make up "timeboxing."

Re: Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac

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Post by glennos » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 3:25 AM UTC

startupnerd wrote: post #16

sounded like an interesting idea - but doesnt actually count down my assigned time on mountain lion

I saw the same when I blocked it phoning home. After allowing it to phone home once it now counts down as you'd expect.

Void_, what's the phone home actually doing?

ps. Nice, simple product. Are you going to build this out to include some of Zone's functionality?

Re: Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac

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Post by james4k » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 3:25 AM UTC

This strikes me as something that would be better as an iPhone app. Still, seems like a great simple app.

Re: Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac

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Post by Void_ » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 7:03 AM UTC

godDLL wrote: post #21

This is very very good. I only wish I could paste/drag a list like this in and out of it: - bla bla do one thing - bla bla do some other thing + this is done already Because right now it has my information hostage. And then destroys it altogether. Thank you.

You can simply paste list of things in it, copying is a good idea too.

Re: Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 7:26 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac

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Post by devin » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 7:27 AM UTC

Void_ wrote: post #15

suyash wrote: post #14

It says quit unexpectedly, not working for me. I'm on LION

Yeah, I haven't tested it on Lion. Sorry.

Test it on Lion.

Re: Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac

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Post by epaga » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 7:31 AM UTC

Nice and clean interface.

Would be great if I could delete a task (after adding a bunch of test tasks for example)

Would also be great to be able to enter "1h" - it switches it to 1m.

Is this somehow compatible to your App Store App "Zone"?

Re: Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac

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Post by e_proxus » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

I immediately tried entering 4h as a estimate, sadly it didn't work. :-(