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Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by Redoubts »

paultopia wrote: post #17
plufz wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I feel for you not feeling able to publish, is it really that sad that we like good icons? Isn’t one of the important things about the platform that we have high ui demands?

I'd argue that UI is different from prettiness of icon. The skill of drawing and the skill of understanding how to make an application easy to use are different.

While true, this icon has some obvious flaws that could have been fixed with "draw polygon; sides: 3" in any free or premium editor.

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by aportnoy »

jpulgarin wrote: post #20

Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I'm h…

Fantastic app, thank you for posting! Is there a way to get the current task name to show in full length in the menu bar, similar to what you have in the video? I see a truncated name instead (i.e. instead of "do task number bajillion 30:00" I see "do task num... 30:00").

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by karanbhangui »

jpulgarin wrote: post #20

Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I'm h…

Does your app support iCloud sync or is everything stored locally? Are there any plans for an iOS app?

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by aracena »

plufz wrote: post #15
paultopia wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh man, that's sad but true. I've been working on a couple of small (hopefully) useful Mac apps myself, but can't draw or anything like that, and this fact has seriously kept me from putting them on the app store altogether.

While I feel for you not feeling able to publish, is it really that sad that we like good icons? Isn’t one of the important things about the platform that we have high ui demands?

I agree with you, I decided to keep it simple (may be too simple lol) so we could ship as fast as possible but I will work on that in the future, thank you for your feedback!

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by elliekelly »

paultopia wrote: post #10
rusinov wrote: post #7

Mac nerds wouldn’t install an app with icon like this.

Oh man, that's sad but true. I've been working on a couple of small (hopefully) useful Mac apps myself, but can't draw or anything like that, and this fact has seriously kept me from putting them on the app store altogether.

You can have someone design an icon for you on fiverr for a pretty reasonable price.

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by jpulgarin »

matchbok wrote: post #6

iOS version planned? I'd love to chip in.

It's definitely something we're thinking about. There have been many times when I'm not at my computer that I'd wished I had access to my task list, or had something like Effortless on my phone to keep me focused on some manual task. Right now we're focused on improving the Mac version though as an iOS version would also require us to write a backend to handle accounts/syncing, etc...

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by aracena »

aportnoy wrote: post #24
aracena wrote: post #19

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Hey thank you the feedback, can you please let me where did you see the error? thank you

Notification in the last screenshot on the app store page.

I'm fixing it now, thank you!
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