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Tell HN: we've made dddone.com - a TODO app done right

11 points by snitko 16y ago

Hi HN, we've made http://dddone.com. It's a TODO app. The main idea is that you can have 2 views of the same todo list: one is for the structure, so that you can have the global vision of the project, and one is for the priority with the most important tasks at the top. We made it for ourselves, because we felt no existing app satisfied our purposes and this approach seems to be extremely productive for us. Hope you'll like it. Of course, any suggestions and reviews are welcome.

snitko 16y ago
clickable: http://dddone.com http://dddone.com
- CatalystFactory 16y ago
  Having a bit of trouble loading it in Chrome - is the site down?
  - dazzawazza 16y ago
    I have a feeling we've killed it, the sire isn't responding at all.
  - snitko 16y ago
    Yes, a problem with the linode, rebooted and working now. Weird, we don't even have the traffic.
maxdemarzi 16y ago
It's weird that I can't mark a task done on the right column...
- snitko 16y ago
  What do you mean? There are only delete buttons in the right column tasks. If you click "done" in the left column though, the task automatically becomes "completed" in both columns.
  - maxdemarzi 16y ago
    Ok, "Done" and "Delete" both make the item disappear, which would make one believe they do the same thing except one fades green, one fades red. Does that mean something else in the back-end? or is it the same ? The view/hide done tasks link is confusing because it's resetting the list which make it useless trying it out. _ Update: Also it's weird to have the Pencil icon on the left, make a change, and then have to go all the way to the right for save. Maybe it's easier to just keep everything on one side?
    - snitko 16y ago
      Ok, I hear you. "Delete" button completely deletes the task from the list (from the db, if you wish). "Done" button just marks it as done and you can see it if you click the link "View dddone tasks too!" - although for some technical reasons it only works on the saved lists (e.g. it works everywhere else, but on the mainpage). As for the pencil ico and save button - you can simply hit "Enter", that will save the title.
      - ydant 16y ago
        It might be clearer to have it fade to "disabled", but not entirely disappeared on Done, at least until the list is re-loaded.
resdirector 16y ago
Have you tried http://www.folderboy.com http://www.folderboy.com? That's the to-do-ish app that I'm building that allows you to put the same task in multiple lists. Full nested-labels. And allows you to search for the task/data/idea real fast with search-as-you-type. </shameless-plug>
- snitko 16y ago
  That seems like a great app, but unfortunately it lacks the main feature that we needed - two representations of the same todo list, synced with each other. Plus, does your app has a sharing feature? I liked your search-while-typing feature. Looks great.
  - resdirector 16y ago
    Cheers, thanks. two representations of the same todo list Kind of. With FolderBoy, any note (or folder) can be in multiple places at the same time. So, I guess you could create a "Priority" folder, with all your tasks arranged by priority, and also put these (exact same) tasks in another folder(s) with them organized in a more project-like way. I think what yours does better is that you can have two lists side by side. Ah, yes, we don't do sharing...yet!
petervandijck 16y ago
Nice, I like the concept, and love the example it opens up with.
petervandijck 16y ago
Do you have any plans with this, ie. to turn it into a full-fledged (paying?) service? Open source it? Etc?
- snitko 16y ago
  We'll see how it goes. We're going to use it ourselves and work on it a bit. If we see that more people are using it, we'll start reviewing suggestions and will be ready to invest more time into developing it.
  - petervandijck 16y ago
    Sounds like a plan.
slouch 16y ago
looks like your server is struggling with the HN traffic. i can't get the root to load.
- snitko 16y ago
  It's working now. Try it. We'll immediately upgrade if needed.
petervandijck 16y ago
Few thoughts: - Gotta improve/simplify the actions between left and right view. It doesn't feel right that you can't mark an item DONE at the right. - You should show completed tasks by default. Nothing more satisfying than seeing that checkmark and seeing what you've done. After a day or so, they can dissapear.
- yock 16y ago
  I too like the idea of displaying completed tasks for a limited amount of time.
petervandijck 16y ago
- The clear/save buttons are a little un-intuitive. I'd expect everything to just get saved as we go. - I do really love the concept. Awesome way to improve upon something so simple. - The title editing is a little clunky: the edit button shouldn't be there (you should just be able to click the title), or else only show it on hover, and you need a submit/cancel button instead of only submitting on ENTER. - The "edit" icon before each item: the placement of this (and the way it looks) make it look like it's a checkbox where you can check things of when they're done. Move "edit" to the right, and put a checkbox before each item where you can mark items done. Don't hide done items immediately, but remove the checkbox with a checkmark (Green) and leave the item there for a day or so.
- snitko 16y ago
  Thanks, sounds reasonable. We'll find some time to fix this.
LeBlanc 16y ago
The online to-do list application market is very crowded. There are a whole lot of different apps out there. I like your idea of a structured to-do list next to a priority one. Have you thought about using the APIs of the other to-do list apps to pull a user's data from those sites and display it using your novel method?
- snitko 16y ago
  As you can imagine, pulling data from another apps would take time to implement. Especially because there are so many apps out there. Personally, I'm not sure it would make sense, at least at the moment. Or do you think it would?
  - LeBlanc 16y ago
    You are probably right that it doesn't make sense right now, just because a lot of the good suggestions in this post are more pressing. The reason I suggest it is that it would give you access to a number of users right off the bat which could be good for getting feedback from a large group of people who are actually going to use your app for their actual to-do list (rather than the informal sort of playing around with it I just did for a few minutes). In the end, it really depends on where you want to go with this.
martinc 16y ago
Looks nice. I get an error in IE8. Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2) Timestamp: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:50:19 UTC Message: 'console' is undefined Line: 48 Char: 11 Code: 0 URI: http://dddone.com/javascripts/app/event_set.js?1277907280 http://dddone.com/javascripts/app/event_set.js?1277907280
- snitko 16y ago
  Thanks, we fixed that. It was a forgotten debug console.log() call.
sebastianavina 16y ago
well, it's just what we need. Thanks for the idea, I will implement this concept on my internal ERP (F)

11 points by snitko 16y ago

snitko 16y ago

clickable: http://dddone.com http://dddone.com

CatalystFactory 16y ago
Having a bit of trouble loading it in Chrome - is the site down?
- dazzawazza 16y ago
  I have a feeling we've killed it, the sire isn't responding at all.
- snitko 16y ago
  Yes, a problem with the linode, rebooted and working now. Weird, we don't even have the traffic.

maxdemarzi 16y ago

It's weird that I can't mark a task done on the right column...

snitko 16y ago
What do you mean? There are only delete buttons in the right column tasks. If you click "done" in the left column though, the task automatically becomes "completed" in both columns.
- maxdemarzi 16y ago
  Ok, "Done" and "Delete" both make the item disappear, which would make one believe they do the same thing except one fades green, one fades red. Does that mean something else in the back-end? or is it the same ? The view/hide done tasks link is confusing because it's resetting the list which make it useless trying it out. _ Update: Also it's weird to have the Pencil icon on the left, make a change, and then have to go all the way to the right for save. Maybe it's easier to just keep everything on one side?
  - snitko 16y ago
    Ok, I hear you. "Delete" button completely deletes the task from the list (from the db, if you wish). "Done" button just marks it as done and you can see it if you click the link "View dddone tasks too!" - although for some technical reasons it only works on the saved lists (e.g. it works everywhere else, but on the mainpage). As for the pencil ico and save button - you can simply hit "Enter", that will save the title.
    - ydant 16y ago
      It might be clearer to have it fade to "disabled", but not entirely disappeared on Done, at least until the list is re-loaded.

resdirector 16y ago

Have you tried http://www.folderboy.com http://www.folderboy.com? That's the to-do-ish app that I'm building that allows you to put the same task in multiple lists. Full nested-labels. And allows you to search for the task/data/idea real fast with search-as-you-type. </shameless-plug>

snitko 16y ago
That seems like a great app, but unfortunately it lacks the main feature that we needed - two representations of the same todo list, synced with each other. Plus, does your app has a sharing feature? I liked your search-while-typing feature. Looks great.
- resdirector 16y ago
  Cheers, thanks. two representations of the same todo list Kind of. With FolderBoy, any note (or folder) can be in multiple places at the same time. So, I guess you could create a "Priority" folder, with all your tasks arranged by priority, and also put these (exact same) tasks in another folder(s) with them organized in a more project-like way. I think what yours does better is that you can have two lists side by side. Ah, yes, we don't do sharing...yet!

petervandijck 16y ago

Nice, I like the concept, and love the example it opens up with.

petervandijck 16y ago

Do you have any plans with this, ie. to turn it into a full-fledged (paying?) service? Open source it? Etc?

snitko 16y ago
We'll see how it goes. We're going to use it ourselves and work on it a bit. If we see that more people are using it, we'll start reviewing suggestions and will be ready to invest more time into developing it.
- petervandijck 16y ago
  Sounds like a plan.

slouch 16y ago

looks like your server is struggling with the HN traffic. i can't get the root to load.

snitko 16y ago
It's working now. Try it. We'll immediately upgrade if needed.

petervandijck 16y ago

Few thoughts: - Gotta improve/simplify the actions between left and right view. It doesn't feel right that you can't mark an item DONE at the right. - You should show completed tasks by default. Nothing more satisfying than seeing that checkmark and seeing what you've done. After a day or so, they can dissapear.

yock 16y ago
I too like the idea of displaying completed tasks for a limited amount of time.

petervandijck 16y ago

- The clear/save buttons are a little un-intuitive. I'd expect everything to just get saved as we go. - I do really love the concept. Awesome way to improve upon something so simple. - The title editing is a little clunky: the edit button shouldn't be there (you should just be able to click the title), or else only show it on hover, and you need a submit/cancel button instead of only submitting on ENTER. - The "edit" icon before each item: the placement of this (and the way it looks) make it look like it's a checkbox where you can check things of when they're done. Move "edit" to the right, and put a checkbox before each item where you can mark items done. Don't hide done items immediately, but remove the checkbox with a checkmark (Green) and leave the item there for a day or so.

snitko 16y ago
Thanks, sounds reasonable. We'll find some time to fix this.

LeBlanc 16y ago

The online to-do list application market is very crowded. There are a whole lot of different apps out there. I like your idea of a structured to-do list next to a priority one. Have you thought about using the APIs of the other to-do list apps to pull a user's data from those sites and display it using your novel method?

snitko 16y ago
As you can imagine, pulling data from another apps would take time to implement. Especially because there are so many apps out there. Personally, I'm not sure it would make sense, at least at the moment. Or do you think it would?
- LeBlanc 16y ago
  You are probably right that it doesn't make sense right now, just because a lot of the good suggestions in this post are more pressing. The reason I suggest it is that it would give you access to a number of users right off the bat which could be good for getting feedback from a large group of people who are actually going to use your app for their actual to-do list (rather than the informal sort of playing around with it I just did for a few minutes). In the end, it really depends on where you want to go with this.

martinc 16y ago

Looks nice. I get an error in IE8. Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2) Timestamp: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:50:19 UTC Message: 'console' is undefined Line: 48 Char: 11 Code: 0 URI: http://dddone.com/javascripts/app/event_set.js?1277907280 http://dddone.com/javascripts/app/event_set.js?1277907280

snitko 16y ago
Thanks, we fixed that. It was a forgotten debug console.log() call.

sebastianavina 16y ago

well, it's just what we need. Thanks for the idea, I will implement this concept on my internal ERP (F)