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Re: Show HN: A beautiful, elegant and simple task manager

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There are loads of spelling mistakes - I'd start by fixing "Managment"!

Thanks. I'm surprised the web authoring tool didn't catch that.

Perhaps this is really mean or unfair, but to use your words, "We're surprised you didn't catch that."

Some opinions on the app:

1) Signup is annoying, but at least you let me use it right away without clicking on some verification link that is now in my inbox

2) Something about the login/signup form design says this app is not very good or perfectly sculpted. Maybe it's the padding between the text fields or how little space you use of the giant browser window there is. Take a look at Google's or the modal form on AirBnb. There's space, sensible padding and layout.

3) When I first log into the app and see "Double Click Me" and I double click it, the right-slide-in modal is fine, but it blocks out rest of the UI. What I would prefer to do (and would expect it to do) is just slide in without dimming rest of the interface. That right-pane should remain in place when I click on another item. It should repopulate with that item's details. Dimming and drawing attention to the right-pane is fine for the "Learn to use NubiDo" but for everything else, it feels pedantic

4) Is there a better name than NubiDo? This comment feels shallow, but I am not sure anyone would take an app with the name "NubiDo" seriously. Sounds like (and maybe it is) "Newbie Do" which doesn't sit right in the mouth and just sounds funny. There's gotta be a better noun or a verb you can use. Even Any.do, Evernote, OmniFocus, or Wunderlist is better. Even better are simple and grounded names like Things. Yes, a good domain is probably hard to find these days, but I think you need a better name than NubiDo. You can get creative with .ly or .io domain extensions and pre/suffix like "get" or "app" in your domain names...

Not a bad effort by any stretch. Just not up to snuff to be converting users from their faithful and already-established gtd tools.

Re: Show HN: A beautiful, elegant and simple task manager

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I'm going to guess this is Apple only? The only giveaway on that is the picture of the Mac on the front page, but it never explicitly states what platform it's for.

It's web based although it does follow an Apple like look and feel.

Looking at the screen shots, there's nothing to clue me in on the idea that it's running in a browser.

Re: Show HN: A beautiful, elegant and simple task manager

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When apps describe themselves as "beautiful" and "elegant," it rubs me the wrong way. Those are subjective things that I decide, not the developer(s). It's like a mother telling everyone how handsome her son is. If he's handsome, people will probably know it already.

Re: Show HN: A beautiful, elegant and simple task manager

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>beautiful lol

that's what i thought too. A lot of people probably won't even sign up to test it after seeing the screenshots. It looks more like a functional prototype "designed" by a programmer...

To be fair the overall look and feel is not that bad, it's just a regular case of programmer colors, which is easy to fix.

Re: Show HN: A beautiful, elegant and simple task manager

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's what i thought too. A lot of people probably won't even sign up to test it after seeing the screenshots. It looks more like a functional prototype "designed" by a programmer...

To be fair the overall look and feel is not that bad, it's just a regular case of programmer colors , which is easy to fix.

There will be an option for color schemes in a future release. This is just phase 1 of many.

Re: Show HN: A beautiful, elegant and simple task manager

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When apps describe themselves as "beautiful" and "elegant," it rubs me the wrong way. Those are subjective things that I decide, not the developer(s). It's like a mother telling everyone how handsome her son is. If he's handsome, people will probably know it already.

I disagree. Someone describing their app as "beautiful" or "elegant" tells me that they really care about the beauty and elegance of the app and have spent time to make it so to the point where they are confident in attaching those adjectives to it. In my opinion, this is a good thing, because we need more people who actually care about what they build. I think that the audience being the ultimate judge, while true, is besides the point.
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