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WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
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#52I downloaded it and tried it and I'm not super interested in it. I've tried a number of different task/to do tools over time. What's working for me now is the following Google Doc that works as follows. If today is 4/10/22:
4/10/22
>Write Article
>Go Shopping
* Milk
* Cereal
>Pay Plumber
If I only paid the plumber that day and bought cereal, on the next day you'd have:
4/10/22
>Pay Plumber
>Go Shopping
* Cereal
4/11/22
>Write Article
>Go Shopping
* Milk
That's basically the whole thing. Of course there's a standard calendar app too. After a few months it gets long and you roll over into a new doc. I can always scroll to the bottom and I have a nice diary of things I accomplished. I don't know how you could improve the implementation over a google doc. The good thing about a Google Doc is if I get stuck on some todo I can brainstorm right in the doc. That's the hardest part with a to do system. Some To Dos stay on there for a while and need a lot of context, creativity and brainstorming to get done.
Re: WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I agree with you and same here; I've moved my entire workflow to the browser. From Figma to my entire dev environment, it's all in the browser and Google handles everything else from accounts to preferences. While that enables me to do most of my work on a low-performance tablet, it introduces a bigger (chrome) issue; latency. I've noticed that most input websites (Notion, Google Docs, etc.) have an input latency whe…
Notion honestly has the worst input latency, even on their Android app.
(Not only latency, but poor cursor management as well. I'll frequently hit return, see my blinking cursor on the line below, start typing, and I'll be typing in the previous line.)
Text-entry is possibly the least enjoyable part of Notion.
Re: WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
#54I 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.
$3/month. Maybe it changed recently?
Edit: we're kind of both right. $3/month, or $24/year.
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#55What ever happened to pencil and paper?
I still use pen and paper but I find that they’re best used as a scratchpad where the stuff you put in there eventually find their way in a TODO app where you can re-organize them or add more details as they are uncovered.
Re: WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
#56I 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
Yes. TeuxDeux.
I knew this app looks exactly like something else I've seen before, but I couldn't recall the name.
However, I don't consider this to be a copy of TeuxDeux because there's nothing particularly revolutionary in either app's design — they're both just digital versions of paper planners.
As far as todo apps go, I've tried them all. The problem I have with most of them is that they don't separate deadline with do-time. I want to plan a task such that deadline might be on Friday, but I intend to actually do the thing on Tuesday. Apps don't allow me to record that information.
When I first heard about TeuxDeux about an year ago I realized that the old fashioned and obvious weekly planner strategy could work. Since TeuxDeux wasn't free (I could be wrong because I now see a free version in their website), I just used a Google Doc to write down what I intended to do every day of the week.
And it worked reasonably well.
I'm happy to see WeekToDo come out. And it's open source!
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#57Just installed it to play around. Really nice to have a purely offline app in this space. What did surprise me is the unskippable 'splash screen' with the sponsor message before the app is usable (several seconds), this would really annoy me if there's no way to get rid of it.
I really like the app. To be honest the sponsor message didn't bother me that much, but it's real that it's there for several seconds. Is it intentional or is it loading the app?
I've never seen an app take that long to launch on my machine before, so I think this is to highlight the sponsor.
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#58What application bundler is this using? Assuming electron, but the github repo only contains assets and translation so it's hard to tell.
I was looking at the repository and in the tags it says electron.
yikes. so there's no reason to download it lol, we get the same experience as running it in-browser
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#59I 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?
It's a minimalist planner app. Why would it solve (self-inflicted) problems for you?
well planner apps aren't designed to MAKE problems now are they?
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#60I downloaded it and tried it and I'm not super interested in it. I've tried a number of different task/to do tools over time. What's working for me now is the following Google Doc that works as follows. If today is 4/10/22: 4/10/22 >Write Article >Go Shopping * Milk * Cereal >Pay Plumber If I only paid the plumber that day and bought cereal, on the next day you'd have: 4/10/22 >Pay Plumber >Go Shopping * Cereal 4/11/…
Done the same for over 10 years with a local "@Worklog.md" file on a light text editor (to get syntax highlighting). Can be synced with Dropbox or Obsidian too.
Recently switched to do the same on Notion, moving items in a "Worklogs" database at the end of each month (with one entry per month) to keep the Worklog size manageable. If a task gets too long I can just create a sub-page for it (or a toggle), put all the context information there, and just add a link to the TODO item.