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Re: Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

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Post by ryanwaggoner »

I have mild to moderate ADHD, and in the long run, I haven’t found any tools that try and “get in my way” to block distraction to be that helpful. No tool can save me from myself, and they usually end up interfering with my “productivity” in the process. For example, with this tool, what happens when I need to use a browser extension, or look up something from a random website, or research something on HN or Reddit? What happens if I need to use the terminal, or message my partner? And then aside from all that, how does it protect me from just turning to something else (phone) to feed my need for distraction?

So while things like this can have some benefit, no productivity tool can come close to touching the things that have really helped me: therapy, meditation, psychedelics, self-compassion, medication, and some books that helped me see “productivity” through a new lens and recognize the pathological relationship with myself that it was keeping me trapped in.

Books I recommend:

1. Four Thousand Weeks by Burkeman

2. Self Compassion by Neff

3. The Now Habit by Fiore

If you can only read one, read 4000 Weeks. Game changer.

Re: Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

#42

Post by _jcrossley »

gen_greyface wrote: post #40
_jcrossley wrote: post #8

Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely minimalist habit tracker. I’m terrible at marketing (my Show HN had zero response) but it’s had a growing organic user base that seems to love it.

The app's size is 25mb,seems a bit much for minimalist app. what did you use to build it.

Hm, I’m not sure what adds up to 25MB but overall it’s very lean on dependencies - essentially just RxSwift. It might also be the Swift runtime, which used to be bundled into binaries before ABI stability.

Re: Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

#43

Post by _jcrossley »

emerongi wrote: post #33
_jcrossley wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, thank you! It’s been years since I’ve touched the app, and I would’ve sworn it already did that. Will dust it off!

I noticed that if you drag a habit to the last position, but a little bit too far, the app crashes. Excellent app otherwise, I really like the simplicity! :)

Awesome!! Thanks for finding that, I was wondering where the (very few) daily crashes are coming from. And thanks, hope it’s useful for you!

Re: Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

#44

Post by _jcrossley »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #39
_jcrossley wrote: post #8

Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely minimalist habit tracker. I’m terrible at marketing (my Show HN had zero response) but it’s had a growing organic user base that seems to love it.

Looks cool but what do the different colors mean? Hard to follow.

100% up to you. All of my habits are different, but usually for me it’s something like “I did it / I did it well / I did it great”.

Re: Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

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Post by _jcrossley »

adolph wrote: post #34
_jcrossley wrote: post #8

Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely minimalist habit tracker. I’m terrible at marketing (my Show HN had zero response) but it’s had a growing organic user base that seems to love it.

Does it have a URL scheme to note execution of habits?

It doesn’t, but that’s a clever idea!

Re: Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

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Post by [deleted] »

_jcrossley wrote: post #8

Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely minimalist habit tracker. I’m terrible at marketing (my Show HN had zero response) but it’s had a growing organic user base that seems to love it.

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Re: Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

#47

Post by StrangeATractor »

_jcrossley wrote: post #8

Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely minimalist habit tracker. I’m terrible at marketing (my Show HN had zero response) but it’s had a growing organic user base that seems to love it.

Tickmate was something I used for a long time, but Google says it's too old for my Android. =(

https://github.com/lordi/tickmate

Re: Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

#48

Post by _jcrossley »

petr24 wrote: post #37
_jcrossley wrote: post #8

Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely minimalist habit tracker. I’m terrible at marketing (my Show HN had zero response) but it’s had a growing organic user base that seems to love it.

I am definitely a ghost user of hacker news, but I had to comment on this. What a great app. Great work and thank you!

Thanks! Really appreciate it <3

Re: Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

#49

Post by tachim »

_jcrossley wrote: post #8

Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely minimalist habit tracker. I’m terrible at marketing (my Show HN had zero response) but it’s had a growing organic user base that seems to love it.

Tough to use this without a way to export data.

Re: Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

#50

Post by nvarsj »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #41

I have mild to moderate ADHD, and in the long run, I haven’t found any tools that try and “get in my way” to block distraction to be that helpful. No tool can save me from myself, and they usually end up interfering with my “productivity” in the process. For example, with this tool, what happens when I need to use a browser extension, or look up something from a random website, or research something on HN or Reddit?…

I think there's definitely room for tools. But they have to discourage distraction, somehow.

Personally I took one look at this Show HN and knew it wasn't for me. Too many things going on in one window - I'd find that very distracting and it would make it hard for me to focus.

For me, I have to explicitly do things that reduce distraction. On OS X, this means having a virtual desktop just for work, for example. Browser only for reference pages. Then another desktop which has all my super distracting things, like calendar/outlook/browser/chat. And I force myself to stay on the work desktop when doing work things.

What I have been looking for is a simple task tracker. This does help! Unfortunately I haven't found anything perfect on OS X yet. On Linux, I found the flowtime [1] app worked really well.

All it needs to do is:

  - Let me enter a task I'm working on
  - Track how long I work on it
That's it. Just the simple action of entering the task and clicking start seems to help kick my brain into focus mode.

1: https://github.com/Diego-Ivan/Flowtime

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