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Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by Syzygies »

Bogdanp wrote: post #21

Congrats on launching! I have to say, though, this looks uncannily like my own app, Remember, that I launched a few months ago: * https://remember.defn.io/ * https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/remember-quick-reminders/id149... * https://github.com/bogdanp/remember Right down to the key bindings and some of the marketing copy[1]. [1]: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/remember-6

Remember requires 10.15, according to my App Store. I bought one of the first thousand Mac 128k's, suffered through systems 1-9, bought dozens of Macs and clones since, and from what I've read I have no intentions of upgrading to 10.15 till I need to replace hardware.

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by wcpines »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #18

Cool. Downloaded and using it. Nit-pick but can you please have right-click to access the setting menu? There used to be a dead-simple MacOS App called Anxiety that does something similar to this but it somehow died. I don't use TO-DO Apps to do my tasks, I calendar pretty much everything but I want a very simple task-lister for things such as "Call Ram", "Remind Kid to learn to Type", etc. This serves the purpose. I…

For Alfred powerpack users, there is a workflow for this. I use it all the time :)

https://github.com/surrealroad/alfred-reminders

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by jusujusu »

revertts wrote: post #39
startingpoint wrote: post #2

Hey HN, Benedict the developer here. I built MonkeyMind as a scratchpad for thoughts while in deep focus. Whenever something pops up in my mind, I needed a place to put it and get back to work. Pen and paper can do the trick, but something with a Spotlight-like shortcut would be better. And that is what MonkeyMind does. A simple global keyboard shortcut to add items and an app that lives in the menubar and gets out o…

It looks like there's a single 5-star review by "Benedict B." Did you review your own app?

I don’t have the answer to this, but giving your own app 5 stars seems totally reasonable and fair. It’s like voting, everyone has one vote, why on earth would you not vote yourself if you’re on the menu?

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by haack »

startingpoint wrote: post #37
haack wrote: post #35

Looks slick, great job on launching! Any possibility of a way to purchase outside of the AppStore? I appreciate this is extra effort for possibly little extra reach but I have managed to survive without signing into my icloud and hopefully won't ever.

Not as of right now. I am considering other distribution channels like Gumroad. Would that work for you?

That would be amazing. Feel free to update me using my email (in profile) if you want.

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by revertts »

jusujusu wrote: post #43
revertts wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like there's a single 5-star review by "Benedict B." Did you review your own app?

I don’t have the answer to this, but giving your own app 5 stars seems totally reasonable and fair. It’s like voting, everyone has one vote, why on earth would you not vote yourself if you’re on the menu?

I think the small upside (a single 5-star rating contributes very little to app ranking) is outweighed by the potential downsides (it can be a turnoff if the user sees that because it strikes of astroturfing, which seems a hot topic these days; it violates app store guidelines, though there's a close to zero chance of that being enforced).

To me it seems like unnecessary risk for little benefit.

Edit: And product reviews are not the same as voting. :)

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by myrloc »

startingpoint wrote: post #2

Hey HN, Benedict the developer here. I built MonkeyMind as a scratchpad for thoughts while in deep focus. Whenever something pops up in my mind, I needed a place to put it and get back to work. Pen and paper can do the trick, but something with a Spotlight-like shortcut would be better. And that is what MonkeyMind does. A simple global keyboard shortcut to add items and an app that lives in the menubar and gets out o…

I really like the idea. However, the fact that I can only purchase it from the Mac App Store is a blocker for me, since I primarily use my work Mac, where I'm logged in w/ my work Apple ID. Seeing as there's no way to share or transfer apps between my work Apple account(s) and my personal Apple account, I'd have to buy two copies, which I don't want to do.

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by Brajeshwar »

wcpines wrote: post #42
Brajeshwar wrote: post #18

Cool. Downloaded and using it. Nit-pick but can you please have right-click to access the setting menu? There used to be a dead-simple MacOS App called Anxiety that does something similar to this but it somehow died. I don't use TO-DO Apps to do my tasks, I calendar pretty much everything but I want a very simple task-lister for things such as "Call Ram", "Remind Kid to learn to Type", etc. This serves the purpose. I…

For Alfred powerpack users, there is a workflow for this. I use it all the time :) https://github.com/surrealroad/alfred-reminders

Nice. I will check it out.

Quite a while back, I did away with all sorts of Clipboard app, after discovering Alfred's "Clipboard/Snippet Viewer".

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by drcongo »

dddddaviddddd wrote: post #36
startingpoint wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great idea. What exactly would you do with that? Simply open up the list and look at the past entries?

I could see keyboard based navigation, e.g. press keyboard shortcut to pop open the menu bar list. Then navigate through them with the up/down arrows, press spacebar to toggle completion status, then hit escape to close the menubar list.

Exactly this. Arrow key navigation already works, so being able to open it with a shortcut, and hit enter or space to toggle would make this complete.

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by oblongx »

startingpoint wrote: post #2

Hey HN, Benedict the developer here. I built MonkeyMind as a scratchpad for thoughts while in deep focus. Whenever something pops up in my mind, I needed a place to put it and get back to work. Pen and paper can do the trick, but something with a Spotlight-like shortcut would be better. And that is what MonkeyMind does. A simple global keyboard shortcut to add items and an app that lives in the menubar and gets out o…

I really like the app but that monkey icon turns me off big time, allow me to not have the monkey and I'll buy it for sure.

Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar

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Post by skinnymuch »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #18

Cool. Downloaded and using it. Nit-pick but can you please have right-click to access the setting menu? There used to be a dead-simple MacOS App called Anxiety that does something similar to this but it somehow died. I don't use TO-DO Apps to do my tasks, I calendar pretty much everything but I want a very simple task-lister for things such as "Call Ram", "Remind Kid to learn to Type", etc. This serves the purpose. I…

Tot it doesn’t seem like keyboard shortcuts work to go between the 8 or so diff notes? Hoping for things that are mostly just keyboard.

Thanks for the options.

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