Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

#1

Post by skytrias » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 2:01 PM UTC

Hey HN,

I've been working on Todool for a year trying to make an editor that fits my development workflow.

a) Fast text-editing without needing to touch the mouse

b) Multi-Selection to perform commands on more than a single line

c) Switching between List/Kanban mode

You can try the free demo at itch.io for (Windows/Linux) https://skytrias.itch.io/todool#demo

Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]
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Re: Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

#2

Post by polytely » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 3:58 PM UTC

Feels to me like the default completion green in the demo video is too low contrast on the white background. I would check if the contrast ratio is high enough (it's important for accessibility).

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#3

Post by ricardobeat » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:02 PM UTC

This reminds me of https://checkvist.com, which I hope would be used more. It's actually a great replacement for Trello or any other kind of board for smaller projects.

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#4

Post by itake » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:02 PM UTC

Seems like some neat ideas here. but I am a bit confused who the customer is for this.

I am a software engineer that heavily uses todo tracking apps, but this isn't for me.

I use todoist to manage my life. Critical features are mobile app and scheduling tasks.

I use jira to manage project work. Critical feature is multi-user.

This is desktop only, so I can't use it for my grocery list.

This doesn't seem to let me share tasks with other people to track my progress and delegate work.

I guess if I am a solo dev and I wanted a private system to track my tasks that isn't JIRA, then this is useful?

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#5

Post by didgetmaster » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:12 PM UTC

Is this a completely 'off-line' tool or do does it need some kind of connection to a central server? Does it send any of your data over the network or does all your information remain local (i.e. private)?

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Post by skytrias » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:13 PM UTC

ricardobeat wrote: post #3

This reminds me of https://checkvist.com , which I hope would be used more. It's actually a great replacement for Trello or any other kind of board for smaller projects.

thanks for sharing, looks similar to https://www.taskpaper.com/ which is mac only

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Post by dpcx » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:13 PM UTC

A lot of what I saw in the demo video looks like workflowy.com with a slightly different UI on it. It feels a little faster than workflowy, so that's definitely a bonus.

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Post by skytrias » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:15 PM UTC

didgetmaster wrote: post #5

Is this a completely 'off-line' tool or do does it need some kind of connection to a central server? Does it send any of your data over the network or does all your information remain local (i.e. private)?

yes it's completly offline

the savefile is a .todool file which ppl wanted a json export option

options + theme files are json

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:16 PM UTC

didgetmaster wrote: post #5

Is this a completely 'off-line' tool or do does it need some kind of connection to a central server? Does it send any of your data over the network or does all your information remain local (i.e. private)?

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Re: Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

#10

Post by skytrias » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:20 PM UTC

itake wrote: post #4

Seems like some neat ideas here. but I am a bit confused who the customer is for this. I am a software engineer that heavily uses todo tracking apps, but this isn't for me. I use todoist to manage my life. Critical features are mobile app and scheduling tasks. I use jira to manage project work. Critical feature is multi-user. This is desktop only, so I can't use it for my grocery list. This doesn't seem to let me sha…

Agreed the target audience for now is single users & private only.

I'm currently working on separate collaboration version which will be dumbed down but similar to how google docs / figma work - so you can see other users write and interact live.