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Re: Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

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Post by suprfnk »

philsnow wrote: post #30
ZeroCool2u wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assumed this was a common feature, but I just use Google Assistant to do this. "Remind me to change my filters every 6 months at 10 AM." I think my longest term reminder is for renewing my secondary citizenship passport (~10 years I think), though I do have this backed up with a Google Calendar event just in case.

My problem with this kind of calendar reminder is, if I don't act on it immediately , it's gone forever and I notice it, at best, next time it's "time" to change the furnace filter. It would be super helpful to me to have a calendar reminder that succinctly said "you said you wanted to do this every 6 months, and now it's 23 days overdue" (and then when I finally do the thing, schedule the next one for 6 months after…

> "you said you wanted to do this every 6 months, and now it's 23 days overdue" (and then when I finally do the thing, schedule the next one for 6 months after that day, not 6 months after I was supposed to do it in the first place).

org-mode with its agenda does this beautifully. But then that only really runs in emacs.

Re: Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

#52

Post by slugiscool99 »

whycombagator wrote: post #48

For anyone interested here is the TOS[0]. I always like to read them before I install/use something, especially if the something is free. The support email is a gmail account, which I guess is fine. The TOS looked rushed/boilerplate with little updates. Apparently the app may collect your location, and there’s also errors like: > Our servers are located in. If you are accessing our Services from outside And > No purp…

Feel like it's just a dude trying to release a cool app - he's probably not gonna spend money on a lawyer to write a TOS

Re: Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

#53

Post by pge »

This is a great idea, and I wonder if there is a complementary product of a calendar that has a similar scale - detailed by the hour for the next three days, then by the day, week, and month as things go out further. It would be an interesting way to see your future calendar at the right level of granularity (though of course with the ability to zoom in).

Re: Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

#54

Post by whycombagator »

slugiscool99 wrote: post #52
whycombagator wrote: post #48

For anyone interested here is the TOS[0]. I always like to read them before I install/use something, especially if the something is free. The support email is a gmail account, which I guess is fine. The TOS looked rushed/boilerplate with little updates. Apparently the app may collect your location, and there’s also errors like: > Our servers are located in. If you are accessing our Services from outside And > No purp…

Feel like it's just a dude trying to release a cool app - he's probably not gonna spend money on a lawyer to write a TOS

Could be. But why bother with a team section, a blog, or even a site if that was the case ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Obviously, they want to be taken semi-seriously, or they wouldn’t have gone to all this effort. But they haven’t even bothered to proof read their TOS

Re: Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

#55

Post by 0dana »

erwinmatijsen wrote: post #24

Great idea. May I suggest to use iOS’s default design? Your USP is in the app, not the design. And the current design is.. not the best.

Seconded. It kind of looks like one of those domain parking pages with the random links.

And I say this not to be particularly rude, but as someone who literally did exactly this on a website once. The draft landing page had a bunch of multicolored drawers with text in them, and when I was done, I was like, “wait..... dammit.”

Went with a more standard landing page layout for the next draft and felt a lot better.

Re: Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

#56

Post by wrentopher »

whycombagator wrote: post #54
slugiscool99 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feel like it's just a dude trying to release a cool app - he's probably not gonna spend money on a lawyer to write a TOS

Could be. But why bother with a team section, a blog, or even a site if that was the case ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Obviously, they want to be taken semi-seriously, or they wouldn’t have gone to all this effort. But they haven’t even bothered to proof read their TOS

Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to update the TOS to be more clear. For the record, the app doesn't collect location.

I think you're totally right to distrust TOS. Most have some really BS conditions, especially for free stuff. In this though, it was just an oversight on my part.

Re: Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

#57

Post by Jarwain »

philsnow wrote: post #30
ZeroCool2u wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assumed this was a common feature, but I just use Google Assistant to do this. "Remind me to change my filters every 6 months at 10 AM." I think my longest term reminder is for renewing my secondary citizenship passport (~10 years I think), though I do have this backed up with a Google Calendar event just in case.

My problem with this kind of calendar reminder is, if I don't act on it immediately , it's gone forever and I notice it, at best, next time it's "time" to change the furnace filter. It would be super helpful to me to have a calendar reminder that succinctly said "you said you wanted to do this every 6 months, and now it's 23 days overdue" (and then when I finally do the thing, schedule the next one for 6 months after…

Usually I get the notification for this thing, and I never get rid of the notification until I act on it

Re: Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

#58

Post by Fnoord »

ttul wrote: post #32

This is an electronic version of a "bring forward" filing system that has been around for many decades. An older friend of mine showed me his "bring forward" file: it has a file for each month and also a file for each of the coming four weeks (labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 because some months have five weeks). He just puts things - like bills, for instance - in the appropriate folder depending on when they're due. And th…

How does this differ from week numbers (1-52)?

Re: Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

#60

Post by shinycode »

It looks like the Bullet Journal but simplified.

I found the paper version of the bullet journal very effective because every day you have to think about what you can really do. Organizing with daily, weekly, monthly prevents mixing deadlines which is the root for me of pushing back on tasks because I don’t have clarity to decide what can be done now.

I made an app out of this concept https://bulletweek.app

Obsviously there could be as many app as ways to get organized so every system and apps requires to adapt and change habits.

Edit: On iOS 14 I can’t get back on the main screen clicking on the top left home icon with StrongWeek

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