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Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by blowski »

dijit wrote: post #7

Looks extremely nice. One thing that I’ve had serious difficulty with though is keeping my Jira/Asana and Google Tasks all linked up somehow. I guess it’s a non-goal, but do you envision a future where you would integrate with those solutions? Of course any integration would hopefully sync lazily in the background instead of blocking the render…

My local, private todo list serves a different purpose to Jira. Keeping the two in sync is manual but not difficult.

Every morning I have a routine of selecting my tasks from Jira. During the day, I just try to keep Jira up-to-date. And then at the end of the day, I ensure Jira is up-to-date with my progress.

I've tried multiple times to automate them, but the automation ends up with more costs than benefits.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by TehShrike »

2bitlobster wrote: post #75

What's the file format? I hope the best for your app, but I hope I can still use those files if something happens to the company. I converted to .txt files 10 years ago for everything todo, but wouldn't mind a specialized utility for it!

I'm curious as well – if there was a SQLite file somewhere that I could read from to hook up e.g. an Alfred plugin or whatever, that would be valuable.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by adamweld »

madrox wrote: post #70

Well done. This is everything I love about Omnifocus but with better collaboration. If you can give me a Windows version so I can also use this on my personal workstation this is an instant buy.

Try Workflowy, it has good native and web apps and a great minimal but powerful design and is completely free.

https://workflowy.com/basics/

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by gala8y »

Apart from it being probably a great app...

"Pay once $149 keep it forever, ongoing compatibility updates + bug fixes, 18 months of new features"

...this is not old skool pay once payment. It is just one payment for 18 months of subscription to new features which makes it slightly more expensive than monthly subscription. Go figure.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by DanielDe »

2bitlobster wrote: post #75

What's the file format? I hope the best for your app, but I hope I can still use those files if something happens to the company. I converted to .txt files 10 years ago for everything todo, but wouldn't mind a specialized utility for it!

We use a proprietary sync engine, so there isn't some known file format you can edit. I totally understand your objection to this!

We do, however, store the data locally in a sqlite database (~/Library/Godspeed/godspeed-db.sqlite). You shouldn't directly edit it or things won't sync properly, but you can use it to easily read your tasks if you'd like!

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by DanielDe »

TehShrike wrote: post #102
2bitlobster wrote: post #75

What's the file format? I hope the best for your app, but I hope I can still use those files if something happens to the company. I converted to .txt files 10 years ago for everything todo, but wouldn't mind a specialized utility for it!

I'm curious as well – if there was a SQLite file somewhere that I could read from to hook up e.g. an Alfred plugin or whatever, that would be valuable.

There is indeed a sqlite file! ~/Library/Godspeed/godspeed-db.sqlite. But you shouldn't edit it or things won't sync properly. Feel free to read, though!

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by DanielDe »

kstrauser wrote: post #81

Coming from an OmniFocus user: How do I script it? OF's automation is a must-have, as that's how I integrate it with my other apps. Extensive Shortcuts support (ala Things) is a minimum. AppleScript or JavaScript is better. I won't use a to-do app without a start date. Don't remind me to renew my driver's license 3 years in advance. I don't even want to see that. Everything that's due far in the future that I couldn'…

> How do I script it?

We don't have a story for this yet, but we will. And I strongly agree about JavaScript. In fact, an idea I really like is making that API available directly in the developer console, which we have available anyway because we're an Electron app!

> I won't use a to-do app without a start date.

We've gotten this request before and its on our list! I also really liked this feature of OmniFocus.

> I can't deep link directly to an item

This is coming soon too, I find myself wanting it all the time.

> I can't legally use it without end-to-end encryption.

Totally understandable. Once again, this is on our list, and has been hotly requested.

I SUPER appreciate this feedback. Always valuable to hear about the blockers, and you can bet I'll follow up with you when we've addressed them all!

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by DanielDe »

jamil7 wrote: post #29

Great work! Keyboard wise, it works really well. I found the onboarding panel persisting there the whole time kind of annoying. I wanted to dismiss it but could only minimise it. It sort of forces you to go through every feature upfront, rather than progressively disclosing features to you. Nitpicks, but some of the ways in which it doesn't behave like a mac app I don't like. I don't like the non-native looking font.…

Ah you can actually dismiss the onboarding panel from the command palette, sorry that wasn't more obvious!

The sidebars can be collapsed with ⌘+; and ⌘+', though we also intend to make them fully resizable soon too!

You're right about the undo/redo stack, we need to improve its integration with the system so those work properly.

Thanks so much for this feedback! Keep it coming!

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by DanielDe »

coldtea wrote: post #19

Looks good. An important question: can we sync it with our own method (e.g. Dropbox or SyncThing or whatever) or is there a hardcoded sync to the company's Cloud? It's a matter of privacy and freedom to move the data as we see fit.

The sync engine is proprietary, so you can't use your own provider. We wanted very tight control over syncing to achieve our goals with speed and shared lists. I totally understand your concern, though.

For what its worth, all of your data is stored locally in a sqlite DB. You shouldn't edit this DB or syncing may not work, but you should feel free to read from it if you'd like ~/Library/Godspeed/godspeed-db.sqlite

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