Two notes:
- I think your Enterprise and Plus plans are too cheap.
- I'm glad nobody's complaining about the prices being in euros instead of dollars. As a European I sometimes worry about exchange rates affecting my income if I price my products in dollars.
Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works
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#42I like these services, but it's like trello. If I have personal tasks to do, those personal tasks will often include sensitive data. My grandmothers bank number, my medical card number, the phone number of a friend. I don't trust these services with that kind of data. Having an online solution is not a solution. Not without zero knowledge. Which they could totally do, but hell, that's hard.
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#43Looks interesting. I've been using DropTask ( https://www.droptask.com ) recently which is a slightly different take on visual task management. Still not sure whether I prefer it to more traditional apps, but kudos to both companies for trying something different.
I've tried Trello & Asana but have always been looking for something a little more visual. This is great, thanks!!
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Had this happen with a credit card company. Registered for online access, generated pass with 1password, no errors, "Very strong" indicator, save (again, no errors) and was locked out. Was a lot of fun talking to the customer service rep who insisted I needed to be using IE. That I had to register. That I "must be doing something wrong". That I am not typing in the correct password. That I'm not technically capable.…
Yes! My bank did something like this - they kept rejecting my password as too long without telling me how long it was supposed to be !! Turns out it was ten. Ten characters protecting my sensitive personal banking information. Upon e-mailing, they said they're going to be bumping it to 20.
My developer environment at work has a password that is synced across multiple services.
Ran into a problem a few months ago where I changed my password successfully on the front-end, but one-or-many backend syncing operations mangled the new password by dropping the last n characters on the floor. So when I logged into the front end, it would look like everything was fine until I tried to perform some kind of operation. At which point it promptly threw up all over itself.
Left me in a completely non-working state for a few days. Didn't help that I'm basically the only admin for said system.
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#45Does anyone's mind actually ever work like this? Mindmaps drive me insane.
I find that students split two thirds to one third on this. Two thirds prefer 'linear' lists of topics and notes, the one third like the mind-map approach. This is 16 year olds and older studying basic maths. So I have both available!
Personally I don't like the 'strict' mind map format, but do like a two dimensional spatial arrangement of information. (Dia rather than freemind for the Linux desktop users out there. But preferably a pencil and paper).
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#46Does anyone's mind actually ever work like this? Mindmaps drive me insane.
I use mind maps all the time. They were instrumental in helping me pass GCSEs, A Levels, UnderGrad and parts of my PhD. Before I read the book (Tony Buzan, Use Your Head) I did OK in exams and school but nothing to write home about. With mind maps I went from a C to an A across the board. Whats most amazing about them, for me, is that even after 7 years I can still remember good chunks of my A Level Physics and Elect…
Should you happen to use Mac OS, have you seen Tinderbox (Eastgate systems)? Windows (and Wine) users may want to look at Inspiration.
Both allow 'unconstrained' mind mapping/concept mapping where the spatial arrangement of objects is not enforced.
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#47I'd the feeling from the website that it's a better implementation of something I've already seen.
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#48Flashback. I worked on a failed mindmap startup with a web-based tool just like this (it was 1999 so of course it was Flash!).
As the other commenter said, there's a split in people who learn well with mindmaps and others like me who prefer lists.
The startup I worked on: Mindwarp Pavillion in Dundee got licensing rights to stacks of textbooks. They created loads of mindmaps based on study books and sold access to students for a few bucks a month.
Even (better?) the mindmaps were a quiz where the student had to answer the next node. There were studies showing that using this method they retained a lot more information.
I was told that the whole mindmap concept was protected somehow (patent?) which they paid a license fee to use. They also got the endorsement of its creator.
£30m valuation when the local authority invested. They lasted a year then died, leaving my last invoice unpaid.
They failed because: - Students didn't pay - They could do it on pen and paper for free, while they're learning - The product wasn't driven by a real customer need: 12 months of dev on super-whizzy software without getting a MVP in students hands
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#49Flashback. I worked on a failed mindmap startup with a web-based tool just like this (it was 1999 so of course it was Flash!). As the other commenter said, there's a split in people who learn well with mindmaps and others like me who prefer lists. The startup I worked on: Mindwarp Pavillion in Dundee got licensing rights to stacks of textbooks. They created loads of mindmaps based on study books and sold access to st…
"They could do it on pen and paper for free, while they're learning"
And that active engagement with the text is the important thing! The student making their own mind map/flash cards/linear notes/annotations on past papers. Whatever.
I like the node quiz idea though, and shall use that on the whiteboard one day (UK based maths teacher).
PS: nice e-book
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#50Nice, beat me to it... :)