I would give up Todoist if I could view todos on my phone as well :)
Maybe I should consider adding sync and creating MonkeyMind for iOS as well...
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Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar
#32Congrats on launching! I have to say, though, this looks uncannily like my own app, Remember, that I launched a few months ago: * https://remember.defn.io/ * https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/remember-quick-reminders/id149... * https://github.com/bogdanp/remember Right down to the key bindings and some of the marketing copy[1]. [1]: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/remember-6
FWIW, in terms of user interface I think we’re all consciously or subconsciously inspired by the apps we use everyday such as Spotlight and Alfred.
For example, here’s my todo list menubar app launched many months before Remember: https://wip.chat/menubar
I bet other people will reply with similar looking apps launched months before mine :)
Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar
#33This is a much more polished version of what I do, which is to keep a note (in Notes app) called Brain Dump, and I jot down anything that is cluttering my mind, which I hold on for fear of forgetting. Just the act of writing it down helps; it's a reassurance that it's ok to let go of those thoughts because they are saved elsewhere. What I like with MonkeyMind is the minimal amount of friction involved, as well as aut…
I thought I was the only one.
I’ve had repetitious thoughts and originally thought they were repeating because there was some thing missing, some nuance that I hadn’t explored.
But once I would write them down, sometimes they would just go away. It must have been a fear of forgetting.
Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar
#34Congrats on launching! I have to say, though, this looks uncannily like my own app, Remember, that I launched a few months ago: * https://remember.defn.io/ * https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/remember-quick-reminders/id149... * https://github.com/bogdanp/remember Right down to the key bindings and some of the marketing copy[1]. [1]: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/remember-6
FWIW, in terms of user interface I think we’re all consciously or subconsciously inspired by the apps we use everyday such as Spotlight and Alfred. For example, here’s my todo list menubar app launched many months before Remember: https://wip.chat/menubar I bet other people will reply with similar looking apps launched months before mine :)
Yes, definitely. I was just struck by how close some of the similarities were in this case. That said, it is a simple enough class of app that there are bound to be similarities between them and I was sincere in congratulating the OP.
Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar
#35Looks slick, great job on launching!
Any possibility of a way to purchase outside of the AppStore? I appreciate this is extra effort for possibly little extra reach but I have managed to survive without signing into my icloud and hopefully won't ever.
Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar
#36This is definitely something I need, thanks. One small feature request: Would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to show the list too.
Great idea. What exactly would you do with that? Simply open up the list and look at the past entries?
I could see keyboard based navigation, e.g. press keyboard shortcut to pop open the menu bar list. Then navigate through them with the up/down arrows, press spacebar to toggle completion status, then hit escape to close the menubar list.
Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar
#37Looks slick, great job on launching! Any possibility of a way to purchase outside of the AppStore? I appreciate this is extra effort for possibly little extra reach but I have managed to survive without signing into my icloud and hopefully won't ever.
Not as of right now. I am considering other distribution channels like Gumroad. Would that work for you?
Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar
#38Looks great, thank you for sharing! A question I have about macOS development - where should I start in order to learn how to make menu bar and shortcut driven UIs?
Please, don't forget about the Dock!
I personally hate when apps crowd my Menu Bar when they don't need to e.g. Dropbox, NordVPN, Keybase etc. I always try to disable the Menu Bar icon for an app if possible, and if I can't I will delete the app if I can find a suitable alternative.
There are so many advantages to a dock icon:
- Richer, colorful icon
- Support for badges, configurable by user
- Won't be hidden by the system (macOS will hide icons in a crowded Menu Bar)
- Can be hidden by the user (Dock Autohide)
- Icon can be repositioned by the user
The Apple HIG makes it pretty clear that most apps don't need the Menu Bar, and should use the Dock instead. But we're in a vicious circle where users have been trained to use the Menu Bar (even though it's inferior), so that's what developers do.
Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar
#39Hey HN, Benedict the developer here. I built MonkeyMind as a scratchpad for thoughts while in deep focus. Whenever something pops up in my mind, I needed a place to put it and get back to work. Pen and paper can do the trick, but something with a Spotlight-like shortcut would be better. And that is what MonkeyMind does. A simple global keyboard shortcut to add items and an app that lives in the menubar and gets out o…
It looks like there's a single 5-star review by "Benedict B." Did you review your own app?
Re: Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar
#40Looks good. Checking it out.