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To Don't – The reverse to-do list
- scns 5y agoMade me smile. Personally i use Habitica though which offers penalties for bad habits too, in a playful way.
- pantulis 5y agoThe name is fun because it looks like the evil alter ego of Amazin Marvin, a very comprehensive productivity app www.amazingmarvin.com
- threecheese 5y agoAre you using Marvin? I considered it but it didn’t seem to have a visible community (as proxy for life expectancy).
- jonwest 5y agoNot the original poster but I’ve tried it a few times. Absolutely love the customizability of the methodology, but for me the interface was a bit sluggish feeling for quick entry and getting a larger overview of my tasks. Things like page loads were quick enough, it was more that I was never _quite_ sure how to do things. It would be kind of close to other task management stuff I’d used, but just different enough to slow me down significantly and that initial and immediate drop in productivity made me look for other alternatives.
- tchock23 5y agoGoing to second this review. I loved the feature set and approach to customization, but the calendar in specific just didn’t ‘click’ for me. They do a lot of regular releases and are great about listening to users, so maybe someday I’ll go back.
- pantulis 5y agoTotally agree with both of you. The feature set is very deep and the team keeps cranking out features at speed. There is also certain "cognitive behavioral" flavor on a lot of the capabilities, which I like. But the user interface, specially on mobile, is not the nicest and fastest and they struggle to keep it user friendly due to the overwhelming set of capabilities and possible workflows. It's like the Emacs of Productivity Apps, so Cultured Code's Things or even Todoist are much much more polished and fast. I came back to it because it's the only app that integrates well with more than two calendars, allows for timeblocking and has habit tracking.
- mcrittenden 5y agoI've used it heavily for a couple years now. I describe it to people as tinker toys for building your ideal todo list app. There's an active official Facebook group community, if that's helpful at all: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1927874704161821 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1927874704161821
- pantulis 5y agoIt's somewhat unfortunate that the most active user group is in Facebook, there is also a Reddit sub -not also the greatest forum but wins over FB Groups.
- motohagiography 5y agoSmart. A list of bad habits would help, as self selecting the ones we "remember" is different from recognizing ones we do unconsciously. Most of them will be immoderate versions of habits that are probably mostly good. Short list for me of things to choose to stop doing would be, suffering, struggling, searching, judging, among others, and in the time and emotional focus just those would free up, I could do stuff like lawncare, product development, get passively better at something I enjoy, or become interested in the experiences of others. I probably won't use an app unless it provides some kind of exogenous value, but it's a nice piece of art.
- alreadyinxkcd 5y ago... go chasing waterfalls.
- noisem4ker 5y agoLet's start a list: 1 - Don't create websites that only show with JavaScript enabled.
- yosito 5y ago2 - Don't create app icons that look like swastikas
- maximus-decimus 5y agoAll this time, the number 4 was a swastikas in disguise.
- slig 5y ago2 - Don't complain to others about your personal choices.
- nkozyra 5y agoI have been doing a combination to do/to don't list for awhile and treat the latter like the proverbial unbreakable chain. So in addition to tasks on my list, I have a M-F to don't list that I fill in once I've ... uh, not done that thing. Mostly related to health, fitness and sleep. It helps me stay on track.
- HeyZuess 5y agoI have a `don't do` list and a `anti-regret` list. The `don't do` list works well, not all the time but I am constantly reminded not to drink coke, down from many liters a day. My `anti-regret` list takes priority over my to do list, things like spend more time with the kids, again works in the majority of times.
- zelphirkalt 5y agoWhen I read anti-regret list first, I thought it would be a list of things you already have done, that you came to the conclusion you should not regret. But what you describe sounds more useful for deciding what to do next.
- Apocryphon 5y agoI’ve thought of creating a “worrybook” to jot down anxious thoughts and worries to confirm afterwards whether or not if they had any basis in reality, or were in fact irrational. So another angle of dealing with regret. Is there any psychological basis of recording bad thoughts to disprove them, as a way to treat anxiety?
- csbartus 5y agoIn the Age of Fallibility this is a must. We are pursuing the superman way, while we might be surprised we are already as good as it is possible, as we must be. Tracking the don’ts, then realizing some of them are part of us, and this is no problem, will lead us to better humans, to understand we will never be perfect and we will always be fallible.
- aiisjustanif 5y ago> while we might be surprised we are already as good as it is possible, as we must be. Well this makes me sad.
- bartvk 5y agoActually I know a therapist who told me that he considered this one of the twenty aspects of emotional maturity. He pointed me to a YouTube video made by Alain de Botton et al, quote: "You cease to believe in perfection in pretty much every area. There aren't any perfect people, perfect jobs or perfect lives. Instead, you pivot towards an appreciation of what is 'good enough'".
- juangacovas 5y agoA code style guidelines seems like a nice don't list to me, if accompanied with examples
- _tk_ 5y agoOther than those shown on the website, could you give some everyday examples to write in there? This sounds like a neat app I would install and never look at again, after 3 days. I don’t see myself, friends or colleagues avoiding unprofessional, unproductive or regrettable situations if they had looked at their To Don’t list in the morning.
- moneywoes 5y agoGossip, browsing social media etc
- tomcat27 5y agolol this might actually work!
- Adaptive 5y agoAs someone that helped create a relatively popular task management app, I've scaled things wayyyy back personally and now mostly use Apple Reminders and Streaks (Apple ecosystem only so far). Streaks has a great "don't do this" function for tracking habits. Recommended as a habit/recurrence tracker in general.
- mrkramer 5y agoAren't To Don'ts counter-productive since there are 99 things you shouldn't do and like 5 things you need To Do. This is akin to using blacklist as a sysadmin instead of whitelist since there are hundreds of potentially dangerous and unwanted apps which need to be blacklisted but in reality there are 10 apps that you actually need and use which are easier to pinpoint and whitelist.
- mlac 5y agoIt’s not the 99 things you shouldn’t do that you wouldn’t do otherwise, it’s the 4 that you shouldn't be spending time on but are anyway. “We’ve always done it this way” - old habits die hard, and sometimes what you decide not to do is important as what you choose to do. Identifying and marking down time wasters and energy sucks is a useful exercise.
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- huachimingo 5y agoFunny enough, I've always thinked that TODO list meant "everything else that has to be done" because TODO = all in spanish.
- jrootabega 5y agoInteresting. Do you call it a "hagamos" list? Along those lines, calling this place "Hacer News" would be pretty fitting!
- AzzieElbab 5y agoWas it inspired by fake movie trailer from Grindhouse? https://youtu.be/lttrIPDFplU https://youtu.be/lttrIPDFplU
- aguasfrias 5y agoThe "don't take the lift" suggestion in the screenshot is excellent. This presents a daily challenge that you can feel proud of tracking. However, I think that this is only because it is reducible to a positive item that would be better served by a todo list: - Take the stairs. The other ones don't seem like discrete, countable challenges. Rather they're simply part of conscientious behavior. You might as well include "don't spill milk and walk away without cleaning it up" or "don't kick your dog" in there. Unless you had serious problems avoiding those actions, I don't think it's very useful.
- rg111 5y agoHey, I translated your whole app to Bengali. When will I see this reflected in the update?