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Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product

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Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product

#71

Another app that aims to "fix" workday tasks? It's hard to see why this is better and choosing Electron is a red flag. Reminds me of the email client wars from years ago. Half an app, barely a business. Why did YC back this?

> Why did YC back this?

This comes up a lot on Launch HN posts. The answer is always "YC backs teams, not ideas". They liked the founders and think the founders have potential.

If this is how the founders choose to use that potential, then so be it. Maybe they will make a success, maybe they will pivot. YC will back them up and help them either way.

Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product

#72
post #49

one thing well, ever heard of it?

bundling is another philosophy, like notion are doing. It works well because you don't have to context-switch as much.

unbundled (calendar/task/notes) applications are still available if that's your preference.

Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product

#73
Really intrigued by the idea and anxious to try it out! After connecting my Gmail I can only get a white screen. How do I report the bug to y'all?

Best of luck, many commenters on HN seem to really undervalue the "it just works" aspect of things. It looks nice, seems to do something I am really anxious for help with, and not much more. I can see myself paying for this (potentially :) - need to get it working first!).

One perhaps funny anecdote for you - I am recently an engineer-turned-manager and this type of unified task/meeting management is one of the growth areas I've had to focus on most over the last year. Thought I'd let you in on a potential niche^2 market that might be a good fit for a blog post or something similar down the road.

Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product

#75

Really intrigued by the idea and anxious to try it out! After connecting my Gmail I can only get a white screen. How do I report the bug to y'all? Best of luck, many commenters on HN seem to really undervalue the "it just works" aspect of things. It looks nice, seems to do something I am really anxious for help with, and not much more. I can see myself paying for this (potentially :) - need to get it working first!).…

Thanks for your message. You're not the first one to report a blank screen. Very strange. We didn't see that before. You can send us an email at contact@routine.co and we'll try to dig deeper. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Relating to your last comment, I would be great to chat. I'd love to get your input: julien.quintard@routine.co if you want to reach out directly.

Thanks

Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product

#76
The application is re-inventing the wheel. Please look at any decent CRM system such as SugarCRM or Odoo or Dollibar or similar. Please notice that each of those systems have collaboration in first place and they focus on people who are sorted in groups or lists usually called "accounts".

Notes are related to people, accounts, opportunities, or other relational objects. Tasks are related to people, accounts, opportunities, and so on.

A type of a note could be call, SMS sent, received, note could be a task, and yes you can and should mix all the different types inside.

In my opinion best is to make the main table to be anything, of any type as that way you can just add a new type and continue with development. An entry in the same table could be a note, but also task, but also reminder or calendar. And why not make it a hyperlink to directory, DJVU file, PDF file, specific page in PDF file, EPUB, "Follow-Up" related to person, assigned task related to person Joe while assigned to person Jane, task assigned to group of people encompassing Joe and Jane and relate to company ABC LIMITED or Markdown, or plain text, or spreadsheet, allow uploading of files if you have not done so previously, a message ID that user can click, a video, or video to be played with specific times, or encrypted password, or the annoted WWW hyperlink, or online video, etc.

I can suggest to learn from other similar systems:

Monica - Personal Relationship Manager https://github.com/monicahq/monica

Joplin https://joplinapp.org/

Turtleapp note taking application https://turtlapp.com/download/

TiddlyWiki - note taking in a browser https://tiddlywiki.com

The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/

Org mode - your life in plain text https://orgmode.org/

Project Xanadu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

Semantic Synchrony https://github.com/synchrony/smsn

Cherrytree - hierarchical note taking application with rich text and syntax highlighting https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

Hypothes.is Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere. https://web.hypothes.is/

Doug Engelbart Institute - Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems https://www.dougengelbart.org/

Draft OHS-Project Plan https://web.archive.org/web/20070704185333/http://www.bootst...

Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product

#77
post #74

Feature request: - Section: Agenda-view - Feature: in the "free time" blocks where no event are scheduled, have the option (+) to create a new event in that free block of time. - Source: viewed on web app Hopefully that makes sense!

The ability to add tasks and events in the Agenda view is in the roadmap indeed :) Along with drag/dropping a task onto this view.

Thanks. Very clear.

Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product

#78
Hi, I'm just trying it out.

Few comments: - Can the Desktop/Mobile tasks/events/agendas sync, or is this currently being worked on?

- I want to be able to add a calendar event and be able to view it as an agenda (on the daily agenda), viewing an event or a task on the side seems to be counter-intuitive.

Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product

#79
post #78

Hi, I'm just trying it out. Few comments: - Can the Desktop/Mobile tasks/events/agendas sync, or is this currently being worked on? - I want to be able to add a calendar event and be able to view it as an agenda (on the daily agenda), viewing an event or a task on the side seems to be counter-intuitive.

Hi. Indeed, it's far from perfect. We haven't had time to work on the offline/sync yet. You need to reload to get the new state. It's on the roadmap. Will be done soon.

Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product

#80
Installed it on my work machine now. We use Google Calendar at work and I much more rather look it using your App :)

It would be nice if I could connect my Apple-calendar with it as that's what I'm using personally.

Ctrl+space short key is nice but canceling it with esc doesn't work for me at least but I have to open the app to get it closed.

Also - I'd use it so much rather if it would be more independent from google. I switched off from Gmail this year so commiting to Google ecosystem this way isn't so nice.

Anyways, all the best for you. Let's see if this will be actually useful for me.

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