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WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App

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Re: WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App

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Tangential ask HN: what is a good Linux desktop to do app that supports monthly recurring tasks (I have some accounting stuff that I need to remember to do every month). I’ll use for daily adhoc tasks too, but any app (or pencil and paper) can handle them.

I keep going back to the todoist app. It works OK but there is something about it it doesn’t click with me. Maybe there’s a little too much white space in the design and it looks like a webpage instead of an app that fits into the desktop. I also really like elementary planner, but its sync feature doesn’t work perfectly with Todoist … which is more or less required for me because I need my todo list on my Phone. It…

its the empty space and how when you click on a task to edit it makes a modal pop out. I would prefer a slide in on the right side how wunderlist does it. I am currently trying out remember the milk, it just lacks some things todoist does well.

Re: WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App

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I like the concept. I plan my week in a similar manner with Notion: just add headlines for every week day. My issue is that the tasks often overflow and I rarely clean them up consistently. How does this app solve the problem of overwhelm?

You should try Akiflow.com! there's an awesome notion integration that makes it really efficient to plan notion pages

Re: WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App

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For me, adding items/tasks to time bound columns/lists does not work for me. Sometimes I have inspiration to clear my list and sometimes I do not. I made https://easylists.app to solve my own problem. I want to make lists fast and essentially to treat them as throw away (just like pen and paper). Sometimes I have a "today" list. Sometimes I have a "Top 3" list. I change it up all the time.

Not exactly the same but similarly I made https://quicktodos.com for my wife and I to quickly share lists with real-time updating for things like going to the store or a daily task list.

Funny how so many of these exist with slightly different takes on the problem!

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I hate to be that guy, but this looks exactly like https://teuxdeux.com/ , a service made by Tina Roth Eisenberg ( https://www.swiss-miss.com/ ) which has been around for a long long time. More than one product can exist in a space (and todo lists are a dime a dozen) and maybe this was a completely original idea and GMTA, but wow it sure looks like a note for note copy

A benefit of teuxdeux is that they charge $2 a month with the intention of putting the funds to maintaining the site and not having to sell the company.

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Generally like how simple the app is, but as an Aussie, I find starting the week on a Sunday off-putting.

When I open the web version of the calendar picker, it's showing Monday as the irst day of the week?

Btw, I didn't realize vast majority of the world outside Americas have week starting on Monday.

Re: WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App

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I spend ~85% of my time inside Chrome such that the only possible tool that could work for me is a Chrome extension. I currently use https://prodtodolist.com/ for general reminders but it's too barebones and something like this implemented as a ~minimalist~ Chrome extension could be very handy.

Honestly, my realization that I spend so much of my time inside Chrome is the exact reason I have started looking for native apps instead of SaaS. Chrome has become the problem for me more than anything, because as much they want to be the OS of the web - they're pretty terrible at it.

Curious how you define terrible in this case. Doesn't the fact that you spent so much time in the browser that you had to look for alternatives mean that it was in fact too good?
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