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Re: Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

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Post by TeMPOraL »

itake wrote: post #4

Seems like some neat ideas here. but I am a bit confused who the customer is for this. I am a software engineer that heavily uses todo tracking apps, but this isn't for me. I use todoist to manage my life. Critical features are mobile app and scheduling tasks. I use jira to manage project work. Critical feature is multi-user. This is desktop only, so I can't use it for my grocery list. This doesn't seem to let me sha…

It's definitely useful as a benchmark: it's the fastest, most streamlined task wrangling - and generally, tree-wrangling - UX I've seen so far, seemingly ahead of structured editing tools for Lisp like Paredit, though I'd have to play with Todool to be sure. If its existence generates enough pressure on more mainstream tooling to improve its ergonomics, that'll already be a huge win for the entire space.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

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Post by xavierlint »

ctvo wrote: post #28
mtlynch wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a little silly to critique a Show HN for having fewer features and less UI polish than a tool that's had a 12 year head start.

It's, however, not silly to ask what this new tool brings to the table, and why users should use it vs. the tool that's existed for 12 years.

True.

I hope someone asks that question, no one has done it so far.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

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Post by lopan »

After buying it and using it for a few hours on Windows: Things I don't like - As you might expect for a version 0.5, there are pretty frequent crashes, which appear to happen mostly when expanding/contracting or hiding/unhiding a root node. Save often.

Things I do like - No installation required. No subscription. It's a bit like Workflowy and a bit like Treesheets (as mentioned previously), but I find it easier to read than either. It's fast.

As someone who suspects that they might have partial ADHD, I love that there are several ways you can put a "spotlight" on what you are working on (depending on the theme) - 1) Selecting more than one line causes other lines to be greyed out; 2) "Highlight" changes the background colour of the current line; and 3) "Focus" causes everything except the immediate branch to be hidden! So good!

Looking forward to the future and more stability. :-)

Re: Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

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Post by wingerlang »

itake wrote: post #4

Seems like some neat ideas here. but I am a bit confused who the customer is for this. I am a software engineer that heavily uses todo tracking apps, but this isn't for me. I use todoist to manage my life. Critical features are mobile app and scheduling tasks. I use jira to manage project work. Critical feature is multi-user. This is desktop only, so I can't use it for my grocery list. This doesn't seem to let me sha…

> I guess if I am a solo dev and I wanted a private system to track my tasks that isn't JIRA, then this is useful?

Are you saying this is a rare thing? I doubt many solo devs use JIRA.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

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Post by nospoon999 »

crispinb wrote: post #35
ricardobeat wrote: post #3

This reminds me of https://checkvist.com , which I hope would be used more. It's actually a great replacement for Trello or any other kind of board for smaller projects.

I've been a paying user of Checkvist for years. It's a a pleasing rarity in the contemporary web software world - a simple useful and reliable keyboard-driven tool with little hype and no world-conquering aspirations. It improves year on year, but at no great velocity. It seems to be entirely the property of a team of 2 who are personally responsive at their user forum ( https://discuss.checkvist.com/ ). I supposed o…

As a Checkvist user, too, I'm really happy whenever I see it mentioned. It deserves a lot of credit for all the things it does right, keyboard shortcuts especially.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

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Post by swah »

ricardobeat wrote: post #3

This reminds me of https://checkvist.com , which I hope would be used more. It's actually a great replacement for Trello or any other kind of board for smaller projects.

I also tried using similar tools - Checkvist, Workflowy, Dynalist, Trello... They "stop working for me" after a few days/weeks - probably when I start needing notes on tasks, and tasks on notes...

Re: Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

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Post by crispinb »

nospoon999 wrote: post #46
crispinb wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been a paying user of Checkvist for years. It's a a pleasing rarity in the contemporary web software world - a simple useful and reliable keyboard-driven tool with little hype and no world-conquering aspirations. It improves year on year, but at no great velocity. It seems to be entirely the property of a team of 2 who are personally responsive at their user forum ( https://discuss.checkvist.com/ ). I supposed o…

As a Checkvist user, too, I'm really happy whenever I see it mentioned. It deserves a lot of credit for all the things it does right, keyboard shortcuts especially.

Yes me too. The developers have done a great job of keeping it focused. It being a side project probably makes that easier (no wolf at the door pestering them to make it more profitable).

FWIW if you're interested I have a little commandline capture tool for pinging items onto the top of a default Checvkvist list: https://github.com/crispinb/cvcap. I find it useful when I'm in the terminal and think of something I need to note. It's unpolished but functional.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

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Post by maximus-decimus »

ctvo wrote: post #28
mtlynch wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a little silly to critique a Show HN for having fewer features and less UI polish than a tool that's had a 12 year head start.

It's, however, not silly to ask what this new tool brings to the table, and why users should use it vs. the tool that's existed for 12 years.

simple answer : workflowy is what? $15 per month whereas this one is $20 for life. Also Workflowy is online and this is offline so this can be used for work whereas I wouldn't use an online app like workflowy for company information.
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