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I am a huge huge fan of nested checklists. The interesting thing is that there aren't many apps that fundamentally work with the notion of nested checklists tha
by nojvek 5y ago
I am a huge huge fan of nested checklists. The interesting thing is that there aren't many apps that fundamentally work with the notion of nested checklists that are collapsible and can be re-arranged in different views.
I believe there's a unicorn startup waiting that specializes in checklists.
- orev 5y agoPalmOS had a few apps like this—SplashNotes is the only one I can find—and I’m still surprised that something like that hasn’t been carried forward to newer platforms. The best one can do is use MS Word in “Outline View”, and then you can indent items based on the heading style. That has served me well for a long time.
- oehpr 5y agoIf you're on linux, Check out Minder, An open source mind mapping tool. It has a task list feature where you can convert sub items to tasks and it's just PERFECT for this style of task tracking. https://i.imgur.com/7Q6QHgo.png https://i.imgur.com/7Q6QHgo.png completed tasks are full circles, unfinished is empty circles, You can also see notes here, and folded items. also a highly keyboard focused application. F for fold unfold, T for task set and complete.
- bachmeier 5y agohttps://github.com/phase1geo/Minder https://github.com/phase1geo/Minder (Not the easiest thing to search for - "minder" doesn't bring up an app, "minder app" doesn't bring up a Linux app.)
- AlanYx 5y agoGood, easy support for nested checklists is probably the main reason that org-mode became so popular IMHO.
- egypturnash 5y agoHow do you make unicorn money off of techniques that are so simple they can be conveyed in a few paragraphs, and used with nothing more than pen and paper?
- NomDePlum 5y agoIs that not a close proximity to how you could describe Twitter?
- molsongolden 5y agoTemplates for recurring projects. Task dependencies. Commenting. Assignments. Intuitive structure and UI. Checklists end up being a basic component for most project management software. Clickup is doing this pretty well right now.
- cborenstein 5y agoWould love to get your feedback on bytebase.io - our checklist features is specifically inspired by this article, with three states: empty, half-filled, filled. You just hit 'X' to iterate through the states. Checklist items can be infinitely nested. https://intercom.help/bytebase/en/articles/4587112-to-dos-in-bytebase https://intercom.help/bytebase/en/articles/4587112-to-dos-in...
- johnmaguire 5y agoHave you seen Workflowy? https://workflowy.com/hello/ https://workflowy.com/hello/
- ChrisClark 5y agoI went to that site, and still haven't seen Workflowy. It says it will help me stay organized and then wants me to sign up, without talking about what it actually does.
- yardshop 5y agoTry this link instead: https://workflowy.com/demo/embed/ https://workflowy.com/demo/embed/ It's a live demo with brief instructions that shows you how it works right away. Workflowy lets you zoom in to a sub list to focus on one thing, then zoom back out again.
- prsvrnce 5y agoI highly recommend checking out Workflowy.
- ErikAugust 5y agohttps://www.npmjs.com/package/@eaj/todo-cli https://www.npmjs.com/package/@eaj/todo-cli I built this todo CLI with it in mind. Items/actions are recursive.
- oDot 5y agoWorry not! I'm almost done with Nestful: https://www.nestful.app https://www.nestful.app Need to squash some bugs, add labels, add state ("checkboxes"), a sync indicator and then I think it'll be good for early adopters.
- high_priest 5y agoThe page doesn't load for me, although I have found https://nestful.io https://nestful.io quite a pleasing alternative.
- oDot 5y agoThanks for checking it out. I'm not quite done yet, but I believe that if you come back next week it should be stable enough.
- NikolaNovak 5y agoI've been frustrated as well with that; my mind is inherently hierarchical/nested, so when I plan, document or checklist something, I neeed levels and indentations. I've been using ToDoist for a while now and it's worked well. Some of the recent features/changes have clearly been for people with workflow different than mine, but the overall easy-nasting of tasks/subtasks to multiple levels and easy-drag-drop rearranging works well, and it's available on both web and phones. todoist.com/app/
- valbaca 5y agoReminders on Mac/iPhone/etc does just this. make a list and you can easily drag and drop between items to create items sub-items, collapse sublists, move them between different lists, etc.
- anthonygarcia21 5y agoI'm rather fond of MyLifeOrganized (https://www.mylifeorganized.net/ https://www.mylifeorganized.net/), an outliner available on Windows/MacOS/Android/iOS. It offers the ability to zoom into a branch of a tree, which I find very valuable. The developer offers a subscription sync service, which I use to keep my tree sync'd between desktop and mobile.
- pps 5y agoUnfortunately it's not available on MacOS: "We're considering developing Mac version"
- anthonygarcia21 5y agoWhoops, my apologies. I use MLO on Windows and Android; I saw the icon on their site and assumed they had a port. If I were on MacOS, I would probably use Omnifocus ( https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/ https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/ ).
- johnxie 5y agoFounder of Taskade here. We've been tackling this exact problem for the past few years, building a tree-structured nested checklists that spans across multiple visualizations and views, from boards, org charts, to mind maps. It is also collaborative and syncs in real-time cross device. You can give it a try here no signup needed: https://www.taskade.com/new https://www.taskade.com/new Would love to hear your thoughts!
- C19is20 5y agoPrices?
- ChrisClark 5y agoIt seems to be $9/month if you want things like recurring tasks or sorting.
- bachmeier 5y agoShows me $5/month: https://www.taskade.com/pricing https://www.taskade.com/pricing Maybe it knows I'm stingy so it shows a low price. The free version is a real free version, in the sense that it provides a lot of value. I like using it as an outliner.
- johnxie 5y agoThanks! We have many outliner feature improvements planned including more keyboard shortcuts and import via markdown. If you have any particular requests, please do take a minute to add them to https://feedback.taskade.com https://feedback.taskade.com
- johnxie 5y agoSorting is free for most of the options, only Sort by Due Date is paid behind the paywall. We will update https://taskade.com/pricing https://taskade.com/pricing to clarify this. You can see a screenshot here of the demo: https://i.imgur.com/FVRHDAV.png https://i.imgur.com/FVRHDAV.png Recurring tasks is paid, but task due dates, reminders, push notifications via email, browser, mobile, are all included free without any limits. If you have any other questions, do let us know!
- fellowniusmonk 5y agoI have a full app very close to public launch that makes nested lists and checklists easy and powerful. It's a personal app I've used for years and finally decided over covid to turn into a true product. I'm garbage at fundraising and have 0 wealth in my network so I'm just bootstrapping as best I can... but nested lists are insanely powerful, I'm probably in the 1% of high context switching costs, context switching is absolutely painful for me which is why I built this for myself, easy, fast structure means I can live in the structure of what I'm doing and by always knowing my place it transforms many "context switching" events in my brain to simpler "working the next task node" events which has insanely less cognitive overhead for me. It's the only productivity software that has helped me do more.
- dchuk 5y agoPost a link to your project or landing page
- aphit 5y agoDynalist.io serves this purpose for me.
- yoyohello13 5y agoI won't try to sell you anything, but this is the basis of Emacs org mode.
- User23 5y agoAnd then it adds note taking, literate programming, and hyperlinking to, well, anything you or someone else wrote a protocol handler for. I'm not as smart as I used to be and my short term memory and long term recall are both not what they were in my teens, but using org-mode as a prosthetic brain has kept me as if not more effective.
- tunesmith 5y agoI just wonder if anyone can identify with me, thinking it's absolutely crazy to invest energy in any feature or app that has a "nested" (hierarchical, tree) data structure as your primitive, when for any project with dependencies, what you need is a graph structure - meaning, items that can be blocked by multiple parents. Basically, if your item can only have one parent, you're already doing it wrong. I know it's a hard problem, but we haven't even scratched the surface of what kind of UI/UX features there are to make it easier to deal with. This is the problem people should be iterating on, but it's like no one wants to deal with graph data structures. Outside of the apps with way too many features like MS Project and Omniplan (it doesn't need to be as complicated as Gantt charts or even PERT charts), I know of only two pieces of software that try to tackle this in a graphical sense: Flying Logic and Taskheat. Taskwarrior has some support for it but it's clunky. Orgmode barely has support for it via org-brain but still clunky.
- AlanYx 5y agoFYI, Org-mode supports multiple dependencies via org-depend (blocking entries do not have to be nearby and can even be located in a different file). Thanks for the recommendation for Taskheat BTW; that looks pretty amazing. I'm curious, have you actually tried using Flying Logic for task planning?
- tunesmith 5y agoFlying Logic is like my secret weapon, I use it daily for both work and home. There are some features I wish it had which it will never have due to it being Java, but I can pretty much work around all of them. I tend to use a vertical orientation for explanation/justification, and a LR orientation for task planning. It's also better than things like draw.io and figma for quick architectural meetings with team members, since it re-orients as you draw. For home, I also use it for recipes, especially those that require multiple cooks at once.
- AlanYx 5y agoThanks -- that's fascinating. I can imagine it works well for planning multi-course meals. You've piqued my interest enough to give it another look one of these days. I had looked into it briefly a few years ago when it was pitched more as a constraint management tool than a general purpose tool.
- high_priest 5y agoI've been using SuperProductivity and other than the sometimes junky Flutter UI, I wouldn't replace it with anything else.
- GSGBen 5y agoEven further: you need draggable nested checklists, where you can select an item, drag it, and all of it's nested children follow. I'm currently using the 2016 / desktop version of OneNote for this and it's incredible. Give it a try. The main downside is it's lack of code formatting support.
- yardshop 5y agoPeople have mentioned Workflowy which is very nice. Another nice system is Checkvist (the v is formatted like a check mark in their logo). Go to https://checkvist.com https://checkvist.com and press Enter to go to the demo/overview page. You can nest hierarchical lists, and you zoom in on a sublist, and most every feature seems to have a keyboard shortcut.
- mosselman 5y agoI just checked out checkvist, it looks great! It has many things that workflowy doesn't have, such as due dates, tags, etc. What I don't like about workflowy is that nodes can be completed, but they don't have a checkbox.
- e3bc54b2 5y agoOrg-mode has had nested collapsible chceklists since its inception, and you can do a lot of fancy stuff with it too.