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

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as someone that uses the "notes" app built into my iOS and OSX devices, what utility would I get out of this?

I just go and write "ok" as a prefix for every bullet point that I complete

I feel like I procrastinate, but I mean not really? My ideas are converted to money within weeks, which is the general goal for me, whereas most people I know squirrel around for months or years on just the name of their website or brand or limited liability company, or do some other completely ineffective thing with ineffective people and can't tell.

Whether its money, administrative, or other goals or juggling family or other obligations, what benefit would I get from this app, or other note taking apps?

Can anyone relate to what I wrote and also gained outsized benefits from structuring their notes in one of these other ways?

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

#62
I like the idea. I have some personal preference on the interface: 1) rather than having to click to see all my todos, I prefer to have them on front page (Today: ..... Tomorrow: ......This week:......) either collapsed list or a flat list; or Have a tab to switch between today/thisweek/thisyear. 2) need to have swiping for going back. Swiping is so much better than click. 3) when 'add new', the large proportion of screen is showing a selection user will mostly not going to interact. It was a bit confusing at first sight.

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

#63

as someone that uses the "notes" app built into my iOS and OSX devices, what utility would I get out of this? I just go and write "ok" as a prefix for every bullet point that I complete I feel like I procrastinate, but I mean not really? My ideas are converted to money within weeks, which is the general goal for me, whereas most people I know squirrel around for months or years on just the name of their website or br…

I tried many different ways to structuring tasks. On paper and then with apps. The problem with just using notes and having a gigantic list of things to do is that, the structure should relieve us and help make quick choices. I procrastinated for many years and I found that, the root cause was for me because everything was piling up. Different deadlines mixed in a list got me stuck on what to do next because there was so much things to do.

Using the app from this post or others could help because they are build this way but you could do the same thing on paper, structuring tasks from deadline ranges in mind help you to make faster choices and actually see what have been postponed and since when.

Between the family obligations, what you have to do for friends, administrative paperwork, things that pop in your mind and disappear 2 minutes later to come back in mind once it's too late, tasks or ideas for work, all of that have different context and may not be mixed in the same list, with the same deadline on even in the same app.

I found that everything work related like bugs and features etc goes into trello for example or a simple .txt file sometimes.

Personally I saw a clear improvement in the amount of things that I got done before using Bullet Journal method and after. I struggled for many years and I adapted it to make it my own and I rarely postpone things compared to before and it makes me feel less crappy as well ...

I found that the "notes" app for the iPhone is perfectly suited for what it is, to takes notes. It surprise me that you don't even use the "reminder" iOS app for the checkmark built-in instead of writing "ok" when it's done.

After all the most important thing is finding a system that fit us and make us more productive and we might have different needs and ways we like to get organized (judging by the number of app for productivity in the App Store ...)

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

#64
post #34

This is alright but Todoist (and likely others) more or less already has ways to do this sort of thing. The typical procrastinator simply keeps pushing the unsavoury todos until they accumulate and then it’s game over. In the end, my problem is not really prioritisation, but the anxiety and inner conflict that comes from feeling the external obligation to do something. I’ve dealt with it with meditation at times but…

Try tinyhabits (free 5 day email course). What I got from this is even for non habit stuff (like a one off todo list item) you can write it like this:

Pick up sponge

Instead of:

Clean my car

Picking up a sponge is a lot easier! Once it’s in your hand well you’ll be more motivated.

Or “clean car driver side mirror” which is a one minute job. Try to stop yourself cleaning the car after doing that!

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

#65
post #63

as someone that uses the "notes" app built into my iOS and OSX devices, what utility would I get out of this? I just go and write "ok" as a prefix for every bullet point that I complete I feel like I procrastinate, but I mean not really? My ideas are converted to money within weeks, which is the general goal for me, whereas most people I know squirrel around for months or years on just the name of their website or br…

I tried many different ways to structuring tasks. On paper and then with apps. The problem with just using notes and having a gigantic list of things to do is that, the structure should relieve us and help make quick choices. I procrastinated for many years and I found that, the root cause was for me because everything was piling up. Different deadlines mixed in a list got me stuck on what to do next because there wa…

That was insightful, thank you!

The part that stood out to me was getting stuck on what to do next!

When I worked for other people as a programmer I loved it when the product manager would queue up tickets for me and I could just knock them out within two weeks. I dont have that now.

In the game Dead Rising, it is open world-ish, in a mall, but all the tasks and side quests have time limits on them, really helping prioritize

> we might have different needs and ways we like to get organized (judging by the number of app for productivity in the App Store ...)

or it is an unsolved problem

or it is too easy of a problem to develop for. Isn't this every mobile app tutorial ever, swear I’ve seen them creep into system design prep too

or all of the above

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

#67

Looks like an interesting idea, I'll give it a try. My first thought is this a perfect concept for family planning type stuff. Not planning TO HAVE a family, but planners FOR families or small groups or whatever. It's a perfect place to drop things like vacations or other stuff that will happen in a few months, but we all need to know about. Could use something like "This Weekend" in that list as well. Maybe between…

Thanks for the feedback! Really like the idea of This Weekend. Btw are you suggesting different colors or just fewer colors overall?

Maybe a different color scheme, keeping the option for color and contrast you currently have.

I actually think this could be valuable for you:

https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/

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

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post #58
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)?

Week numbers a based on the start of the year, whereas as these are based on today?

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

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post #58
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)?

Perhaps it's harder to keep track of week numbers. I'm implementing the concept in Asana using their calendar project view. I put stuff in the calendar view as tasks and then in a board view of the same project, those tasks are simply in my backlog column.

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

#70
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am almost tempted to write it myself, none of 3 billion existing Todo apps support repeatable tasks

Todoist supports repeating tasks, but doesn't have the nice time buckets like this app does

I dont think it has repeating templates which you usually want to use.
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