Dude, that is awesome!!! How can I convince a smart guy like you to work with me on a project?
Serious question!
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#22An app to visualize and organize your tasks in an Impact/ Urgency matrix. The app currently uses local storage only, no accounts yet. Would love some feedback :)
Who is this for? I feel like PMs will just put everything in the top right corner.
if that's your impression of PM's you're either not being fair to the PM's you work with or you need to work with better PM's.
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#23Finally some new ideas in this space. Love it!
Lists are honestly a pretty awful way to organize to-dos. Our brains don't work linearly at all.
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#24Finally some new ideas in this space. Love it! Lists are honestly a pretty awful way to organize to-dos. Our brains don't work linearly at all.
Thanks! Yep, lists aren't great, unless they all fall in the same domain (like grocery shopping, travel packing, etc.). Bring in context change and they tend to become less useful, really quickly.
As others have pointed out, this is nothing new. I am just presenting an easy to use app+viz
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#25Dude, that is awesome!!! How can I convince a smart guy like you to work with me on a project? Serious question!
Haha thanks for the offer but I will have to decline. I am kinda in my own space right now, just tinkering with some ideas.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who is this for? I feel like PMs will just put everything in the top right corner.
if that's your impression of PM's you're either not being fair to the PM's you work with or you need to work with better PM's.
Na, PMs who do that should all be beaten senselessly with a baseball bat, metaphorically of course? ;-)
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#27Finally some new ideas in this space. Love it! Lists are honestly a pretty awful way to organize to-dos. Our brains don't work linearly at all.
Thanks! Yep, lists aren't great, unless they all fall in the same domain (like grocery shopping, travel packing, etc.). Bring in context change and they tend to become less useful, really quickly. As others have pointed out, this is nothing new. I am just presenting an easy to use app+viz
I’m not sure what you mean by context change. Is that where you have two (or more) items that are of different sorts (from different contexts or domains), where this difference between them makes it difficult to compare them and thus rank them in a list?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
The imaginary PM stereotype everyone likes to bash would do that, real teammates you work with that respect your time will work with you to plot things in a way that better reflects the team/organization’s shared priorities :) Don’t sell this short because of an imaginary threat (rampant PM abuse)!
Fair enough, that's a good point. My spouse is a PM and when I asked them to use this, they actually ended up using all quads except for Bottom Right (Low Impact, High Urgency). So your points stands, a competent team will correctly prioritise.
What people do you have? Every owner will put it in top right corner. The reason is organizational neglect and lack of due process. Just happened again some weeks ago, and due to org, was sadly necessary.
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#29You've got a logic bug. When dragging something from Quadrant 2,3,4 to Quadrant 1 it doesn't go positive until you let go.
It's designed to update only when you let go, o/w it's unnecessary compute and repainting. If that's annoying, I can enable during the drag too.
I think it's an important one for UX. People pay attention to what they see and if the number doesn't change or changes wrongly, they hesitate to drop it in that sector.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! Yep, lists aren't great, unless they all fall in the same domain (like grocery shopping, travel packing, etc.). Bring in context change and they tend to become less useful, really quickly. As others have pointed out, this is nothing new. I am just presenting an easy to use app+viz
I’m not sure what you mean by context change. Is that where you have two (or more) items that are of different sorts (from different contexts or domains), where this difference between them makes it difficult to compare them and thus rank them in a list?
Yes, essentially. A list is one-dimensional, so you can only rank a task by it's order.
There are actually multiple dimensions that our brain considers when making decisions, but I only chose these 2. There could be more (as others have pointed out), but that makes the planning annoying and visualization cluttered.