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Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by archydeb » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 11:10 PM UTC

I've been using this for a week since reading this post and I'm enjoying it.

The quick capture is the killer feature for me, although it'd be even better if there was a shortcut which automatically captures context too (e.g. URL, email)- maybe there is and I'm missing it.

Mobile capture is a bit of a nuisance but sure you're aware of this. I think a WhatsApp bot would be the best way to give reliable offline or online capture without an app but I haven't seen anybody executing on that so perhaps there are issues with the idea.

Agree with the other comments about the calendly-lite features being unecessary for me, and add complexity to a fairly busy UI.

Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by kareemm » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 1:46 AM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #46

The permissions were a non-starter for me. If you're going to download my contacts and have the ability to share, edit, or delete my calendars, you need to explain why. Even then, requiring incredibly invasive permissions for a productivity app is unreasonable. Just limit the features that "need" those things instead.

100% agreed with this. It's not clear to me why you need my contacts. My mental model of the software is "put my todos onto a calendar". Maybe that's wrong? But if not you need read access to my todos, and read access to see slots on my calendar that are booked (you don't need details of those appts and you don't need delete access).

Downloaded the app and got to the Oauth Google Cal part of onboarding and bailed. Sad, too, because I already timeblock daily using paper. This seems like an easy buy for me if it does what it says on the tin. But not with a perms model like that.

Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by nmnm » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 5:58 AM UTC

archydeb wrote: post #71

I've been using this for a week since reading this post and I'm enjoying it. The quick capture is the killer feature for me, although it'd be even better if there was a shortcut which automatically captures context too (e.g. URL, email)- maybe there is and I'm missing it. Mobile capture is a bit of a nuisance but sure you're aware of this. I think a WhatsApp bot would be the best way to give reliable offline or onlin…

Thanks for the feedback! We are looking into adding a whatsapp bot soon! Regarding capture, you can do it on most browsers this way https://www.notion.so/akiflow/How-to-capture-texts-and-URLs-...