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

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Good point, maybe leverage a link shortener built into the app?

Yup, but you’d still need a database since you need to store that lookup somewhere from long URL to short url.

What about using an IPFS key and using js-ipfs to look it up?

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

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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 :)

Local storage only and no accounts is a feature to me

> Local storage only and no accounts is a feature to me Agree! But the privacy policy is missing. Who tells me that the stuff is not uploaded tomorrow and sold to advertisers?

A takeout as csv or json would also be needed. That could also be the basis for multi-device, which some people undoubtedly will need.

Ideally of course open source it. I am always hesitating to feed closed-source services with my data.

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

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Eventually, depending on how it goes, the URL will contain a key to some DB entry, so multi-device persistence can work. Adding all this to the URL is doable too, I might just start with that, thanks for the idea ;)

If at all you could make it stateless, you should. For one, you don't need a db. Also, there were some people in the thread that liked the local storage feature. Finally, as a user, I can feel safe using your service because I know at any time, if you site disappears, I have the url and I can trivially parse the url into json and do whatever I want with it. You could even build the parser or have an export to json bu…

Yeah, I haven't given it that much thought. It only started as a weekend project. I would like to keep it as local as I can. Possibly, there will be 2 uses: a non-db, non-url, local version AND an account based thing.

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

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post #82

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Local storage only and no accounts is a feature to me

> Local storage only and no accounts is a feature to me Agree! But the privacy policy is missing. Who tells me that the stuff is not uploaded tomorrow and sold to advertisers? A takeout as csv or json would also be needed. That could also be the basis for multi-device, which some people undoubtedly will need. Ideally of course open source it. I am always hesitating to feed closed-source services with my data.

Fair enough. Yeah, I don't intend to make money off this, so will open source soon.

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

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Yup, but you’d still need a database since you need to store that lookup somewhere from long URL to short url.

What about using an IPFS key and using js-ipfs to look it up?

If I'm not mistaken. I think IPFS keys might also be too long. Since a shortcode is only 6 chars long.

Here's the website[1] I built with base64 encoding to share weblinks. I've been trying to think of a non-db approach, but haven't found one yet for link shortening.

[1] http://share.getamna.com

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

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post #41

Finally some new ideas in this space. Love it! Lists are honestly a pretty awful way to organize to-dos. Our brains don't work linearly at all.

Its not new. Its called a covey chart and is used in "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" from 1989, a highly popular self help book. (not sure if it was used in any prior work)

It's new in a sense of 'something that is not yet another rigid list of tasks'

It's Eisenhower Matrix through and through, but I found draggable task dot quite refreshing.

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

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As an aside, just this morning I learned that "baller" is an expression almost a century old. At least.

I was listening to one of my 1950's beatnik poetry albums, and the reader used the adjective "baller" twice, in the same way that we do today.

Related: The word "fly" goes back at least to horse-and-buggy times.

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

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As an aside, just this morning I learned that "baller" is an expression almost a century old. At least. I was listening to one of my 1950's beatnik poetry albums, and the reader used the adjective "baller" twice, in the same way that we do today. Related: The word "fly" goes back at least to horse-and-buggy times.

Haha, I would not be surprised if Beatnik gave birth to the word 'baller'.

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

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post #89

I recently came across the idea of "Prioritizing for Impact". You have made a very intuitive visual representation of this idea. Could it be named something more descriptive? Why Baller Todo? eg Impactful Todo, To Do The Most Impact

Thanks! I like cool names, plus I wanted to make planning/ prioritization fun and not daunting.
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