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Re: Cheddar

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Post by glanch »

revorad wrote: post #101

The comments on this thread are such an embarrassment. Someone's worked hard on something for months, and people go and piss all over it. If you don't think this is a useful or good app, you don't even have to look at it. Just pass. At least when someone launches a product, if you don't have anything encouraging or constructive to say, it's best not to say anything. It seems HN is suffering more and more from the "Wh…

It's because we're tired of seeing a new to-do list app every day. They always have a cutesy name and fancy design and pretentious branding. At this point, a to-do app is a nice project for someone learning to program, nothing more. We don't need 100 to-do list apps. They all suck. Paper and pencil still wins. Typing on a smartphone sucks, and will always suck. I don't care that it automatically syncs to my laptop or my desktop or my goddamn toilet.

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Post by sophacles »

fluidcruft wrote: post #120
sophacles wrote: post #49

Sweet, it's completely useless! I can't dump a task from command line or vim. Can't script it to pull things to the calendar automatically. Can't send an email to put a task directly into it. Can't dump tasks to a text todo list to put at the top of the code or document im writing to remember what I need as I write. Will not use. And, even if those features show up, won't consider due to lack basic thought in initial…

Do you know of something that does this... I'd like to try it? Is this something org-mode can do (probably not since the vim statement, but just wondering)?

Unfortunately not that I've found. Apparently, despite the existence of many, many todo apps, not a single one is made by people who think, "we can innovate the market by going the tried and true 'make it easy for developers to build on' route".

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Post by wyclif »

smackfu wrote: post #83
ntkachov wrote: post #59

Out of all the todo apps I've tried. Every time I go back to writing shit on a white board. I've timed myself. IT takes me about 6 seconds to write something on a whiteboard. And about 10 to take a picture of it with my phone. Compare that to the 20+ it takes for me to pull out my phone, open an app, get into the list I want, and then type it out on a shitty little keyboard. Until you make a note taking app that take…

I use these small 5x8 yellow legal pads. Doesn't take up much space on my desk, and you get 17 lines or so, which is generally plenty. If I need multiple lists, I use multiple pages. Dead simple and fast. And it even allows for multiple levels of completion, like I can mark an X next to an item for when it's coded, then cross out the line when I test.

My fave todo app is still todo.txt. Simple. Effective. Writable and readable anywhere.

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Post by bryanjclark »

ntkachov wrote: post #59

Out of all the todo apps I've tried. Every time I go back to writing shit on a white board. I've timed myself. IT takes me about 6 seconds to write something on a whiteboard. And about 10 to take a picture of it with my phone. Compare that to the 20+ it takes for me to pull out my phone, open an app, get into the list I want, and then type it out on a shitty little keyboard. Until you make a note taking app that take…

"Until you make a note taking app that takes less time to use than a white board, I'm gonna use the whiteboard."

You should check out Threadnote (www.threadnote.com) -- we made it exactly for that reason.

Re: Cheddar

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Post by tatsuke95 »

ntkachov wrote: post #59

Out of all the todo apps I've tried. Every time I go back to writing shit on a white board. I've timed myself. IT takes me about 6 seconds to write something on a whiteboard. And about 10 to take a picture of it with my phone. Compare that to the 20+ it takes for me to pull out my phone, open an app, get into the list I want, and then type it out on a shitty little keyboard. Until you make a note taking app that take…

Same experience. I'm dying for a great to-do application, but I always seem to revert back to my staples: whiteboard, a moleskine and Evernote.

Re: Cheddar

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Post by SwellJoe »

I have a "todo" email in my drafts folder in GMail, I've been using this method for years, and it has always synched up across all of my devices. I used to do it with my regular IMAP email, which worked on my Sidekick, so this process goes back nearly a decade. I've tried using stuff like Remember The Milk, because people love it so much, but it just doesn't give me any benefit and I have to internalize a new process, setup all my machines, etc.

The same is true of Evernote. Email drafts are searchable and available on all my devices, so I just keep my notes there, too.

If I wanted to get fancy, I could make a folder just for todo lists and one for notes. But, I rarely have more than one active list at a time, and notes being searchable makes it easy to find the one I need when I need it.

Re: Cheddar

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Post by cwilson »

munaf wrote: post #48

Startup request: Please, someone come up with a todo/productivity/project management system whose main feature is _motivation_ to use it, not just technical versions of paper todo lists. I don't know if the solution is necessarily technical. I've tried every major app and still rely on the visceral impact of post-it notes next to my computer to get things done. I'd love to switch to an app but nothing is actually mak…

I believe this is also one of the goals of Lift.do, one of the current in-development projects from Obvious Corp (Evan Williams, Biz Stone).

Re: Cheddar

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Post by alttab »

sunnynagra wrote: post #95
alttab wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the point he was trying to make is that the space is freaking crowded. Reminders with Friends is probably not helping.

Yea, I agree that it is crowded. It is less of a simple to-do app and more focused on setting up location triggered reminders for your friends and family. But it is a hard space because it is such a polluted space. we are thinking of possibly pivoting it and using what we learned building it into a new service that focuses on needs of businesses in regards to setting of geofences.

I'd say stay away from trying to sell geo-fencing to businesses.

Location triggering reminders is actually a pretty damn useful thing. I can't remember how many times I can't remember to do something until its too late.

Unfortunately, this is something better built into a mobile device from the get-go, and not an add-on. If it was easy to set up, and did push or text notifications that would be nice. Getting the forgetful type to download and configure it will be the biggest challenge.

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