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Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by gknoy »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #39
cheez wrote: post #10

Does 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…

Would you go into more detail about how one "uses it properly"? Is there a good book or other resource that describes how to do this?

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by janerik »

nollidge wrote: post #40
obituary_latte wrote: post #38

Earlier 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.

At my bank I'm restricted to a 5 character password. When asked if they think that would be secure enough I was told that an attacker would also need the login name and that should be kept secret as well (default login name is account number or FirstnameLastname and I doubt many users will change that)

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by jakebellacera »

nollidge wrote: post #27
leetrout wrote: post #15

"At least 5 characters, only letters and numbers please." It's 2013. Why are there still constraints on what characters can be use for a password? I would love to hear from the author why this is the case.

At least they tell you what's allowed. My favorite is when I put in a password that's rejected with an ambiguous message. Or, even better, when my bank accepted my password but it actually didn't handle whatever punctuation was in it correctly, so that changing my password succeeded but I couldn't log in at all (I was using KeePass, so it wasn't typos).

This happened to me on Mint.com. I use a password manger as well and I generated a 32 character password. It saved successfully, but once I'd log in, it'd kick me back letting me know that my password was incorrect. After about 15 minutes of confusion and multiple password resets, I figured out that passwords can only be 16 characters in length (or, that worked at least), and anything longer than that amount was just being ignored. There was no explanation about this at the time.

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by tarr11 »

manuelflara wrote: post #41

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.

Did you buy it?

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by tjbiddle »

leetrout wrote: post #15

"At least 5 characters, only letters and numbers please." It's 2013. Why are there still constraints on what characters can be use for a password? I would love to hear from the author why this is the case.

This drives me nuts. Every time I encounter a website that was setup with constraints it drives me nuts. Could probably find a few rants on my Twitter feed without much effort. I actually just sent an email to my new utility provider complaining about this over the weekend.

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by porker »

keithpeter wrote: post #46
simonbarker87 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Excellent! I like to work with:

- Loose sentences/notes, which I group into 'clouds' of related topics (without a mindmap's edges). Scapple [0] on OSX is good for this (and spider diagrams), and Microsoft OneNote.

- Spider diagrams - I find mentally these much easier to create when listening to a presentation or in a meeting. The straight lines help for some reason

- Mind maps. My weakest skill, but as someone else commented they stay in the mind better than anything else does, and I can remember some from 3+ years ago.

[0] http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple.php

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by simonbarker87 »

gknoy wrote: post #61
simonbarker87 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Would you go into more detail about how one "uses it properly"? Is there a good book or other resource that describes how to do this?

It's difficult to describe what I call "properly" without doing it a diservice but the original book is called "Use Your Head" by Tony Buzan and I would highly, highly recommend it. The first half doesn't really touch on mind mapping and is more on how memory works but that sets up for the mind mapping section and is just as (if not more) valuable.

It's an old book, I read my Mum's copy when I was 14 and it was hers from uni but it is great.

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by porker »

keithpeter wrote: post #45
cheez wrote: post #10

Does 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.…

> Personally I don't like the 'strict' mind map format, but do like a two dimensional spatial arrangement of information.

Completely agree with you. I haven't found any software to match using pen and paper either, which is sad as when I run out of space around a topic, a force-directed algorithm to create more would be very nice :)

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by codereflection »

This is pretty fantastic.

Some feedback:

* I'd really love to see a blog for the subtask site, with some information about what the roadmap looks like, what type of stack your built on, etc.

* SSL for the low end paid tier

* Conversion to other currencies

* Some indication on the plans page as to what payment methods are accepted

* The keyboard shortcuts are working extremely well, and the site is very responsive, love it!

* I really like that there is no per-user restriction on projects

* It would be really awesome to see integration with something like Trello, Github issues, etc.

* Definitely needs stronger password support

Keep up the great work! Gems like this are the only reason I keep coming back to HN.

Re: Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

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Post by tunesmith »

cheez wrote: post #10

Does anyone's mind actually ever work like this? Mindmaps drive me insane.

As part of fiddling with a different way of displaying dependency information, I wrote a series of blog posts talking about how people don't think hierarchically.

http://iamcurt.com/many-to-many-needs-advocacy/

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