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The Simple Genius of Checklists

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Re: The Simple Genius of Checklists

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This sounds like a fun afternoon project for a web or mobile dev. If nobody replies with a quality app that does this, I'm going to make it for myself and share it here.

Have you seen this site: http://todomvc.com/ Pick your JS framework and it's done.

Making a checklist isn't the novel or useful part. It's having recurring lists that reset each day or week.

Re: The Simple Genius of Checklists

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Reminds me of Chernobyl, where some steps within the safety system test checklist had been crossed-out for an unexplained reason and they had to essentially guess what to do. Not that a properly maintained checklist would have necessarily prevented it.

I actually don't know if that detail is true or if it was added for dramatic effect in the HBO series. The official record seems to state that they simply didn't follow the approved procedures for the test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

There are all sorts of ways they messed up with that test, the design of the system in general, etc.

A lot was learned, some of it costly stuff that we as a species really didn't need to pay for again, and some things that were new and valuable as a result of failure that ethnically could never be intentionally replicated.

One of the better lessons might be to avoid deviating from pre-planned test procedures, and for every major step to have an 'abort' path (or two) for safely entering either safety or normal operating procedures.

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Have you seen this site: http://todomvc.com/ Pick your JS framework and it's done.

Making a checklist isn't the novel or useful part. It's having recurring lists that reset each day or week.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.isoron.uhabits/

Re: The Simple Genius of Checklists

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Can anybody recommend a good checklist app for Android? When I search for "checklist" I only find ToDo-List apps that call themselves "checklist" app. What I'd like is something where you can set a per-checklist timeout after which the list resets everything to unchecked and maybe allow two different ways to view each checklist (or modes): 1. All at once with little check marks that you can check in any order 2. Stri…

I just use a text editor.

Re: The Simple Genius of Checklists

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Can anybody recommend a good checklist app for Android? When I search for "checklist" I only find ToDo-List apps that call themselves "checklist" app. What I'd like is something where you can set a per-checklist timeout after which the list resets everything to unchecked and maybe allow two different ways to view each checklist (or modes): 1. All at once with little check marks that you can check in any order 2. Stri…

I just use a text editor.

To add to this: I do the same. Actually checking the items off of the list is less important than having the checklist written down.

Re: The Simple Genius of Checklists

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds like a fun afternoon project for a web or mobile dev. If nobody replies with a quality app that does this, I'm going to make it for myself and share it here.

This is my weekend project this week, ha. I'm reading Checklist Manifesto and decided there wasn't any good app for it. I'll post back here when it's done.

Advice (or warning?): I use Checklist Wrangler for iOS.

Checklist templates that repeat based on day of week; auto-archive after X days. Tools for organization into groups, subgroups, etc. A way to view completion over time.

I use it for daily things (daily autocreate, daily autoarchive), weekly things, monthly things, and things I do in order but without a set time (manual creation and... autocreation after completion? no i dont think that's a feature).

Wonderful app for implementing checklists and it's a cornerstone is my toolbox for making sure I'm living my life with intension.

Yet, it's long abandoned and I dont know if it's still for sale in the app store. Probably made little money in a sea of Todo apps.

Re: The Simple Genius of Checklists

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Can anybody recommend a good checklist app for Android? When I search for "checklist" I only find ToDo-List apps that call themselves "checklist" app. What I'd like is something where you can set a per-checklist timeout after which the list resets everything to unchecked and maybe allow two different ways to view each checklist (or modes): 1. All at once with little check marks that you can check in any order 2. Stri…

Google notes works for me as a simple checklist

The problem here is Google.

Re: The Simple Genius of Checklists

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I'm probably the smartest guy in Romania and can tell you I got my certification that I can do 99% by making sure my usual cognitive load stays at 1%. I was also poor, which means there was no way to enforce my internal policy which means today, 20 years later, I'm using 99% of my brain power to solve issues a simple state/high-powered enforcement checklist would do. At my 90%+ I still dreamed of a better future. Now…

> I'm probably the smartest guy in Romania

[citation needed]

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