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Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by gabaix »

educated_idiot wrote: post #2

An app to visualize and organize your tasks in an Impact/ Urgency matrix. The app currently uses local storage only, no accounts yet. Would love some feedback :)

Great job! You could mention it is an inspiration from the Eisenhower Matrix. This aims to solve the urgency trap.

First time I see a tool made for it. I will give it a try!

Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by ampersandy »

educated_idiot wrote: post #8
m00x wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is this for? I feel like PMs will just put everything in the top right corner.

Good question. This isn't for PMs. This actually should not be used for large/ group projects. As you rightly said, a PM will put everything in top-right. This was intended for self-prioritization.

The imaginary PM stereotype everyone likes to bash would do that, real teammates you work with that respect your time will work with you to plot things in a way that better reflects the team/organization’s shared priorities :) Don’t sell this short because of an imaginary threat (rampant PM abuse)!

Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by educated_idiot »

anonytrary wrote: post #7

I like this. I like that you looked at how everyone else did something (i.e. ordering by time) and asked "why?". Why not plot it in a more meaningful space? I have one idea -- what if node color was a function of time, and the x-axis was changed to effort? You start the node at one color, and progressively change it to another color using linear interpolation. When creating a TODO item: 1. Specify title. 2. Specify d…

As an engineer, I love your idea. The original use case for this tool is daily self-prioritization and I wanted to keep it really, really simple. Planning in general is overwhelming and I wanted to take that pain away, coz I found myself spending longer in planning than actually doing. By only considering the impact/urgency of a task, you take away the effort/time cost and only focus on the task at hand, irrespective of how much time it takes. As an example, if you have a task that is extremely high impact and high urgency, will you drop it in favor of another task that is quicker but lower in impact/urgency? Since you are defining your own task, the expectation is that your mental model takes care of impact/ effort and (somehow) fuses that information into one value.

I will keep your feedback in mind and think of a nice way. Thanks for the kind words

Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by educated_idiot »

ampersandy wrote: post #12
educated_idiot wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good question. This isn't for PMs. This actually should not be used for large/ group projects. As you rightly said, a PM will put everything in top-right. This was intended for self-prioritization.

The imaginary PM stereotype everyone likes to bash would do that, real teammates you work with that respect your time will work with you to plot things in a way that better reflects the team/organization’s shared priorities :) Don’t sell this short because of an imaginary threat (rampant PM abuse)!

Fair enough, that's a good point. My spouse is a PM and when I asked them to use this, they actually ended up using all quads except for Bottom Right (Low Impact, High Urgency). So your points stands, a competent team will correctly prioritise.

Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by educated_idiot »

villgax wrote: post #14

Like what's your rationale for putting this Covey chart on Product Hunt? Justifying your domain purchase cost?

Lol domain is $5. I don't really care about a coffee :). I am new to web development and ui/ux, picked it up during Covid for kicks. Have been a computer vision/ robotics guy since forever now. Just wanted some relevant feedback on literally the first web app I have ever built.

TIL this is called a Covey chart. Thanks for that. I couldn't find a solution like this which allows for moving/ re-arranging tasks and presenting them in an easy to use way, so I made it.

Sorry if I hurt your feelings, can't make everyone happy I guess :)

Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by educated_idiot »

skunkworker wrote: post #13

You've got a logic bug. When dragging something from Quadrant 2,3,4 to Quadrant 1 it doesn't go positive until you let go.

It's designed to update only when you let go, o/w it's unnecessary compute and repainting. If that's annoying, I can enable during the drag too.

Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by educated_idiot »

gabaix wrote: post #11
educated_idiot wrote: post #2

An app to visualize and organize your tasks in an Impact/ Urgency matrix. The app currently uses local storage only, no accounts yet. Would love some feedback :)

Great job! You could mention it is an inspiration from the Eisenhower Matrix. This aims to solve the urgency trap. First time I see a tool made for it. I will give it a try!

Thanks! Definitely, should mention that somewhere
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