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Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by educated_idiot »

zjs wrote: post #50

Very cool! Some simple feature ideas: It'd be interesting to be able to use size or color to indicate additional dimension(s). I like to measure “return” in terms of impact/urgency and “investment” in terms of cost/complexity, and then maximize “ROI” instead of just maximizing “return”. The ability to sequence things seems to be the biggest thing you lose with the no-list representation, but I think that's easy to fi…

Color/ size seem to be the common consensus, and I will work that in. Edges clutter things too much

Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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tobyhinloopen wrote: post #52
educated_idiot wrote: post #2

An 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 :)

Local storage only and no accounts is a feature to me

Haha, IKR! Too many accounts :D

Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by bildung »

apabepa wrote: post #41
puranjay wrote: post #23

Finally 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.

Its not new. Its called a covey chart and is used in "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" from 1989, a highly popular self help book. (not sure if it was used in any prior work)

I know it as Eisenhower Method, which is even older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower...

Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by bko »

tobyhinloopen wrote: post #52
educated_idiot wrote: post #2

An 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 :)

Local storage only and no accounts is a feature to me

A really cool feature would be to be able to "save" and share charts by setting the url parameters:

e.g. https://ballertodo.com?n=first;second;third&i=0.5,0.3,0.7&u=...

Then you can just bookmark the link or share w/ someone

Re: Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

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Post by kingofpandora »

educated_idiot wrote: post #38
thaumasiotes wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a metric for the ease of completing a task? This could be relevant in two ways. First, task impact per unit of effort is technically a better measure of how worthwhile it is to complete the task than absolute task impact is. Second, I recall some writing in the personal-finance genre which said that people often make more progress getting out of debt by paying their debts in order from small to large, ignori…

Yep, IIUC what you are talking about is similar to the question others have raised about an "Effort" dimension. To keep the daily or slightly more long term planning simple, I opted to not consider those dimensions. You raise a good point and I need to give it some thought. It has to be "complete" enough that you can prioritize properly, but easy enough that you can use it all the time. The finance example is a good…

How about offering, say, three effort options, reflected in the size of the circle in the matrix?

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Post by faeyanpiraat »

bko wrote: post #57
tobyhinloopen wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Local storage only and no accounts is a feature to me

A really cool feature would be to be able to "save" and share charts by setting the url parameters: e.g. https://ballertodo.com?n=first;second;third&i=0.5,0.3,0.7&u=... Then you can just bookmark the link or share w/ someone

There is a limit to url length
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