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Literally started wireframing this exact thing this morning, although with the default resolution, if you will, being a week. My plan was to be able to preset a

by sammcf 11y ago

Literally started wireframing this exact thing this morning, although with the default resolution, if you will, being a week. My plan was to be able to preset a small catalogue of "templates" for various days (eg I always have to put the bins out on Sunday, because garbage day is Monday - so my Sunday template will have a put the bins out task at 7pm every single time), then fill up the work hours with work tasks. After a late night conversation with some buddies about how each of us asks our wife several times a day what we are meant to be doing, exactly, at that moment, I just want a todo app that can answer the question for me. Gonna have a crack at Elixir for this, should be a fun project for getting to grips with a new lang.

gcr 11y ago
This sounds exciting! Please post this to HN when you'd like some feedback, I'd be quite excited if it ever becomes useful enough to try.
- sammcf 11y ago
  Don't get me wrong, it's gonna be a while, but I'll certainly be making whatever...this...ends up being available to all
1_player 11y ago
I wanted to work on something similar, so let me share my view: I really like Trello, and my idea was an app where you had a different page per day (Today, Tomorrow, etc.) and you could import tasks from Trello. When marked as done on the app, the Trello card would be automatically moved from the "Todo" list to the "Done" list (or archived). So you'd use Trello to enter all the stuff you planned to work on, and the app to schedule the when. I never investigated the Trello API enough to know if this is feasible. But they have a writable API, so I think it's possible.
cpbotha 11y ago
Both you and comment parent might find this interesting: A few years back a friend and I designed a web-app that had as its core difference the ability to automatically schedule all of your tasks (based on estimated workunits / pomodori and deadlines) around all of your existing appointments and free time. At its core, it could answer the question: "What should I be working on now?" -- but it could do this in about 1 second (that's how long the solver took) for the coming 3 months. You could redo this analysis every time anything changed, and it would present you with a new 3 month planning. We didn't get any further than (working!) prototype with 30 beta testers. If you're interested, here's an extremely short write-up of what happened: http://timescapers.com/2016/02/07/timescapers-and-timerank-retrospective/ http://timescapers.com/2016/02/07/timescapers-and-timerank-r...
- sammcf 11y ago
  That's super cool, thanks for the info. I might hit you up at a (much) later date for a chat about it!

by sammcf 11y ago

gcr 11y ago

This sounds exciting! Please post this to HN when you'd like some feedback, I'd be quite excited if it ever becomes useful enough to try.

sammcf 11y ago
Don't get me wrong, it's gonna be a while, but I'll certainly be making whatever...this...ends up being available to all

1_player 11y ago

I wanted to work on something similar, so let me share my view: I really like Trello, and my idea was an app where you had a different page per day (Today, Tomorrow, etc.) and you could import tasks from Trello. When marked as done on the app, the Trello card would be automatically moved from the "Todo" list to the "Done" list (or archived). So you'd use Trello to enter all the stuff you planned to work on, and the app to schedule the when. I never investigated the Trello API enough to know if this is feasible. But they have a writable API, so I think it's possible.

cpbotha 11y ago

Both you and comment parent might find this interesting: A few years back a friend and I designed a web-app that had as its core difference the ability to automatically schedule all of your tasks (based on estimated workunits / pomodori and deadlines) around all of your existing appointments and free time. At its core, it could answer the question: "What should I be working on now?" -- but it could do this in about 1 second (that's how long the solver took) for the coming 3 months. You could redo this analysis every time anything changed, and it would present you with a new 3 month planning. We didn't get any further than (working!) prototype with 30 beta testers. If you're interested, here's an extremely short write-up of what happened: http://timescapers.com/2016/02/07/timescapers-and-timerank-retrospective/ http://timescapers.com/2016/02/07/timescapers-and-timerank-r...

sammcf 11y ago
That's super cool, thanks for the info. I might hit you up at a (much) later date for a chat about it!