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I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works

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Re: I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works

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Brajeshwar wrote: post #8
tombarys wrote: post #2

Hey hackers! I've got something exciting to share: Nautilus Omnibus. It's not your typical time-blocking tool. The public prototype offers a unique circular day view that automatically advances all unfinished tasks. I initially developed this as a personal project (in Roam Research) and saw significant improvements in my productivity over several months. I then decided to share it with the world as a plugin for Roam.…

Hey, I have been trying to use this today and I like it. Unfortunately, the data is not stored -- can you please add that to LocalStorage?

Thanks, good idea, I will look into this!

Re: I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works

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purple-leafy wrote: post #6

Interesting tool. I’ll be honest it was very confusing at first, but I think I get it. I’d work really hard on simplifying the instructions into a few Bulletpoints only , maybe even iterating on the idea. In my opinion you literally have about 5 seconds tops to get an idea across to most users on the internet, people have no attention spans. For this reason most of my product demos are a gif of the tool under 10 seco…

Oh, thank you! You have many great ideas, @purple-leafy. This public version stems from the Roam environment where the outliner solves many things for you. Here I am using just a simple edit window without additional functionalities now.

Thank you for your time and expertise. I will look into them and answer (or ask) here, later.

Re: I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works

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Post by tombarys »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #3
tombarys wrote: post #2

Hey hackers! I've got something exciting to share: Nautilus Omnibus. It's not your typical time-blocking tool. The public prototype offers a unique circular day view that automatically advances all unfinished tasks. I initially developed this as a personal project (in Roam Research) and saw significant improvements in my productivity over several months. I then decided to share it with the world as a plugin for Roam.…

Do you plan to open source this and/or do you plan to make this a SaaS app?

I will think about possibilites.

Re: I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works

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Post by tombarys »

casualscience wrote: post #4

why can't I start my day at noon?

Actually, the spiral is ugly when it does not start at 8 a.m. ;) I added 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. as these were the most frequent workday start times users asked for. But I can also add other times for early birds.

For night owls: you can add an extra event (e.g., "11-11:01am Morning") and put all to-dos below this so they will start after.

Re: I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works

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Post by tombarys »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #8
tombarys wrote: post #2

Hey hackers! I've got something exciting to share: Nautilus Omnibus. It's not your typical time-blocking tool. The public prototype offers a unique circular day view that automatically advances all unfinished tasks. I initially developed this as a personal project (in Roam Research) and saw significant improvements in my productivity over several months. I then decided to share it with the world as a plugin for Roam.…

Hey, I have been trying to use this today and I like it. Unfortunately, the data is not stored -- can you please add that to LocalStorage?

Done

Re: I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works

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Post by mjankowski »

I love it! The concept of moving disk towards the end of the day put the right amount of pressure and urgency. Now I can see that I will not be able to squeeze as many things as I eagerly planned for forcing me to prioritize better. For this to work better for me the current time marker should always stay on top, while the disk moves toward the end of the day symbolized as the darkness at the end of the disk, the impending doom of negligence

Re: I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works

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Post by mjankowski »

purple-leafy wrote: post #7
purple-leafy wrote: post #6

Interesting tool. I’ll be honest it was very confusing at first, but I think I get it. I’d work really hard on simplifying the instructions into a few Bulletpoints only , maybe even iterating on the idea. In my opinion you literally have about 5 seconds tops to get an idea across to most users on the internet, people have no attention spans. For this reason most of my product demos are a gif of the tool under 10 seco…

Additionally I’d go even harder on the visual aspect and completely drop the textbox input. Let the user click on the nautilus blocks and add tasks directly. Click -> open dialog -> user writes task and chooses duration -> save

well, I see the direction you might want to take it to I find it absolutely abhorring to have to gone through 30 or so clicks just to enter my day. just leave my text input alone and let me type the stuff in. Screw your dialog boxes.

Re: I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works

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Post by snthpy »

Love it! Really well thought out. Looking forward to trying this out tomorrow.

Explorer it so far, here are a couple of pointers that I think would make it better for me: * I'd like the Nautilus to be larger, so maybe have that on the left and the text input on the RHS next to it? * The shading of the yellow and blue areas seems to subtle and difficult to tell apart on my screen. Would it be possible to have those more distinct? * Some keyboard shortcuts would be great, e.g. for quickly reordering tasks; maybe something like Ctrl+J/K or CTRL+Arrow keys?

Overall, the Nautilus shape is a bit foreign at first and I don't immediately have an intuitive sense of it but I think that's just unfamiliarity and would quickly change with time. With a bit of training so that the shape becomes second nature then I think this will be awesome for productivity! At that point I'd love to be able to use this in a standalone app, maybe an Electron app or something like that.

Re: I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works

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Post by tombarys »

snthpy wrote: post #18

Love it! Really well thought out. Looking forward to trying this out tomorrow. Explorer it so far, here are a couple of pointers that I think would make it better for me: * I'd like the Nautilus to be larger, so maybe have that on the left and the text input on the RHS next to it? * The shading of the yellow and blue areas seems to subtle and difficult to tell apart on my screen. Would it be possible to have those mo…

Thank you very much. I will think of a way to improve the shading while keeping the basic principle and simplicity. Thanks for the other ideas; it is still in progress. I added pasting the calendar from Apple Calendar yesterday.
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