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Re: Show HN: I built a tool for repeatable checklists

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Post by mthoms »

jjj123 wrote: post #50
walthamstow wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting to read that your main uses for this would be packing for trips. I started building a packing app last year but never followed through. On Reddit r/onebag they use lighterpack a lot, but I think it's rubbish and is ripe for replacement.

It takes some doing, but you can build a pretty competent trip planning/packing app all within something like Airtable or Notion. This is what I use, I have a db called “trips”, when a new page is added it pre-fills with a generic trip packing checklist that I can customize.

I did this as well but the problem I ran into is that Airtable is (or used to be?) terrible on mobile. Having just a single description field accompanied by a single checkbox in one view takes up two lines in the mobile ui.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool for repeatable checklists

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Post by dbreunig »

defulmere wrote: post #27

Love the logo, the reverse checkmark as a "step" is a great concept.

Amazing. I never noticed this.

I wasn't aware the checkmark was backwards until a beta user complained about it. I'm left handed and occasionally make my marks that way and had never considered there is a 'right' way.

The real reason it's reversed is because earlier logo iteration used it as the "L" in "StepList". I did away with that full logo, but kept the mark.

But from now on, I'm stealing your take!

Re: Show HN: I built a tool for repeatable checklists

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Post by MikeTheGreat »

dbreunig wrote: post #60
MikeTheGreat wrote: post #57

First - congrats on the launch! I think I'd like something like this, but I'm not 100% sure what this is. Is it an app? A mobile app? A web app? I click on a sample list and the only things I can do from there are download the list to print it, download markdown, and download JSON. I'm not clear what I'm supposed to do with the Markdown/JSON files. At this point I'm not ready to join. I'm assuming that if I joined th…

Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it. To answer your questions here: It's a webapp, designed to work fast and clearly on desktop and mobile. When not signed in, there's a prompt to join next to the Download and print button. Perhaps I should make that more prominent. The download options are so you aren't locked in if you create a list. There's no checklist standard txt format, so I provide lists in Markdo…

You're welcome!

Seeing the download options was really reassuring. It did clearly address my lock-in concerns / worries about having to re-type everything into a new app :)

Looking at it again you do have screenshots of 3 phones near the top of the page. I think I kinda ignored that because the rest of the page didn't talk about that. I'm gonna blame my mental "ignore in-page advertising" filter for not really noticing the screenshots.

Maybe have screenshots under the 'create/perform/schedule/delegate' items too, so it's clear that you're using an app to do all this? (And what the app looks like, and the UI / UX it provides?). I myself dunno, but good luck with this, and thank you for listening to our feedback!

Re: Show HN: I built a tool for repeatable checklists

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Post by walthamstow »

jjj123 wrote: post #50
walthamstow wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting to read that your main uses for this would be packing for trips. I started building a packing app last year but never followed through. On Reddit r/onebag they use lighterpack a lot, but I think it's rubbish and is ripe for replacement.

It takes some doing, but you can build a pretty competent trip planning/packing app all within something like Airtable or Notion. This is what I use, I have a db called “trips”, when a new page is added it pre-fills with a generic trip packing checklist that I can customize.

Does this cater for the same item, a toothbrush for example, being in multiple pack lists?

Re: Show HN: I built a tool for repeatable checklists

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Post by remram »

danielmarkbruce wrote: post #58

When someone signs up you automatically make it public they are using it? And what they are doing?? Like, does this person: https://steplist.app/users/253 know you've made it public? On the surface this is awful. What about respect for people's privacy? Please tell me I'm missing something.

What is public? This link leads to a log-in page for me.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool for repeatable checklists

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Post by danielmarkbruce »

remram wrote: post #66
danielmarkbruce wrote: post #58

When someone signs up you automatically make it public they are using it? And what they are doing?? Like, does this person: https://steplist.app/users/253 know you've made it public? On the surface this is awful. What about respect for people's privacy? Please tell me I'm missing something.

What is public? This link leads to a log-in page for me.

log in, with a dummy account i suggest. Everyone can see everyone else. I can see that link despite not being that person.
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