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Re: Cheddar

#71
post #6

Dear God no, yet another pimped-up todo list? What does it do that the others don’t?

When pg used a todo list as an example app to challenge email, this was to be expected. A million todo apps everywhere. People have so little imagination.

I don't think pg is to blame for this... todo list apps are inherently simple to design and build. If anything, they're a great 'first app' for new or aspiring developers, so a marketplace flooded with (many shitty) todo apps is not surprising.

Re: Cheddar

#73
post #63

Out of all the todo apps I've tried. Every time I go back to writing shit on a white board. I've timed myself. IT takes me about 6 seconds to write something on a whiteboard. And about 10 to take a picture of it with my phone. Compare that to the 20+ it takes for me to pull out my phone, open an app, get into the list I want, and then type it out on a shitty little keyboard. Until you make a note taking app that take…

"Siri make me a reminder to delete all my to-do apps." "Ok, making your reminder."

"Siri make me a reminder to delete all my to-do apps."

"Ok, you're now a rain-dear caught in the headlights."

Re: Cheddar

#74

Sweet, it's completely useless! I can't dump a task from command line or vim. Can't script it to pull things to the calendar automatically. Can't send an email to put a task directly into it. Can't dump tasks to a text todo list to put at the top of the code or document im writing to remember what I need as I write. Will not use. And, even if those features show up, won't consider due to lack basic thought in initial…

IMHO I think this phrase is part of the reason behind downvotes "Sweet, it's completely useless!" It is a strong statement and it is probably subjective. What it is useless for you might not be for someone else. You did fixed after... " is mostly useless to me." but I think was too late.

"I don't get all the hate this post is receiving. ". The post itself feels like a lot of hatred behind him. Maybe it is getting the same medicine?

Re: Cheddar

#75

Out of all the todo apps I've tried. Every time I go back to writing shit on a white board. I've timed myself. IT takes me about 6 seconds to write something on a whiteboard. And about 10 to take a picture of it with my phone. Compare that to the 20+ it takes for me to pull out my phone, open an app, get into the list I want, and then type it out on a shitty little keyboard. Until you make a note taking app that take…

I always end up falling back to a combination of Google Tasks (because it's on iGoogle, which is my homepage) and just writing stuff on a legal pad. If I'm out and about, I'll just text it to Google Calendar.

Re: Cheddar

#77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He (PG) was talking about a new protocol that allow people to share tasks and control how many tasks they can have. Not a simple TODO list though. I don't think this is suppose to be an email killer. If they are doing this because of what PG said then I am afraid they might misunderstood him.

Apparently the author turned down a job offer to work on this full time: http://samsoff.es/posts/staying-strong I applaud the effort and entrepreneurial spirit and even the quality of the UI work. I'd question the judgement when there are so many to-do apps out there already.

I am agree with this... It's great staying strong in the things that you believe. I am not sure about questioning him though. Starting in a dense market is not an excuse for failure. There were too many "searching engines" back in the day and that wasn't a problem for Google.

Also, companies often evolve in different directions from where they start. Take Instagram for instance, they evolved from a social network and in the middle decided to take another path.

Re: Cheddar

#79
post #16

> pushes to all of your devices iDevices you mean.

No. Cheddar also works in browsers, so any device with a browser can run cheddar and it pushes it to ALL your devices.

Re: Cheddar

#80

Sweet, it's completely useless! I can't dump a task from command line or vim. Can't script it to pull things to the calendar automatically. Can't send an email to put a task directly into it. Can't dump tasks to a text todo list to put at the top of the code or document im writing to remember what I need as I write. Will not use. And, even if those features show up, won't consider due to lack basic thought in initial…

IMHO I think this phrase is part of the reason behind downvotes "Sweet, it's completely useless!" It is a strong statement and it is probably subjective. What it is useless for you might not be for someone else. You did fixed after... " is mostly useless to me." but I think was too late. "I don't get all the hate this post is receiving. ". The post itself feels like a lot of hatred behind him. Maybe it is getting the…

I should probably clarify that last bit then: I still think cheddar is useless, because it doesn't provide the functionalities I declare. I meant, that in a hypothetical todo app that has those features, the official released app is still mostly useless to me.
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