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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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How did you create these onboarding and landing page videos? What software did you use for voice and to create this videos. I am trying this. Thanks

Hey tmanager2023 - I am horrible at voice overs so I used naturalreaders.com for the landing page video and beta.elevenlabs.io for the onboarding videos. Once I had the voice overs, I created videos of the app and stitched them together with various effects using Adobe After Effects. I didn't really know how to use After Effects before creating these videos but a few tutorials helped me get a better grasp of it. Hope it helps!

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

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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?…

Hey ryanwaggoner, I do agree that this app is not meant to completely isolate you from everything and prevent all distractions, including distraction from smart phones. The one thing it does really well though is to help you setup goals and track all your tasks and reminders with ease. It also shows you your web apps in a single window with way less cluttered tabs. If you want to research or open any website, you can. You just open the command bar using CMD+1 shortcut (in mac) and just type the website you want to visit. By default, the command bar will open your websites or apps in split view so you don't lose focus of the work you were doing. But if going to a website is deliberate and you want to switch contexts fully, you can always press SHIFT+CMD+1 to open websites, apps, bookmarks etc in full view. Again, it is an extra but a deliberate step to switch contexts fully.

Basically, a lot of things are built into the app to help you focus by default. Even the daily productivity goals help you track your work habits and even tracks focus time by default. A lot of things in the app are done by default so you get to build atomic habits to achieve greater success in the long run and on a consistent basis.

Can you do all of this in other apps? Sure, you can do a lot of what this app offers by sticthing together many different and distinct apps. The problem is you will use those apps initially but revert back to your old habits. Since Floutwork helps you bring everything into one place, although it might feel restrictive at first, once you get used to it, you will realize you are able to focus way more. Would love for you to try it out. If it works, great! If it doesn't, at least you can say you tried ;-)

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

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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.

Thank you; finding a habit tracker on IOS that isn't juiced to the gills with social and/or subscription features is impossible.

Thanks! Hope it sticks for you. To replace my paper bullet journal, I wanted to stay far away from social, subscriptions, notifications, etc etc.

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

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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.

Kudos on the app. It looks and feels great. May I suggest to add a ‘long press’ on the theme to lock it?

Thank you!! Is the problem that it's too easy to tap Theme, and it's annoying to then cycle through all?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for checking out our app! We recently updated our subscription pricing page to provide more transparency around our pricing model. We're currently considering a plan starting at $5/month, but we want to hear from you – what price point would be fair for the value you're getting? We're open to feedback and committed to providing affordable options for all users. Looking forward to hearing from you!

quite honestly HN is the last place you want to do market research on pricing. the income distribution is skewed extremely low and extremely high and attitudes on paying for anything do not reflect market reality, largely due to ideological dispositions.

Hmm good point.

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

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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.

Microsoft Todo is 127mb.

This is among the lightest Todo app on the app store.

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

#68
Something I need to read within the first five seconds of browsing such a product:

- all your data will be downloadable in an easy-to-parse format in case we go bust, suddenly switch to an extortionate pricing model, or submit to the general enshittening and destroy a once-great UX after a year in the name of innovation

Modern Saas offerings just give me so much insecurity: if your app is good now, will it still be good in a year or will you change it beyond recognition?

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

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post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Microsoft Todo is 127mb. This is among the lightest Todo app on the app store.

not a todo app, but a minimalist time tracker that i use.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hourly-time-and-task-manager/i...

its around 18mb for my phone, i was comparing both in my head, so was curious about what was used to build it.

but it seems its smaller because of device specific packaging.

P.S. i do like the OP's app.

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

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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.

Really nice looking, wonderfully intentioned app. Thanks for being uncouth else I would not have found it.
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