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Hi Mike, Thanks for your time and generosity! I just entered the beta phase for my side-project OtherMind, a fast way to take notes and make lists (http://othe

Hi Mike, Thanks for your time and generosity! I just entered the beta phase for my side-project OtherMind, a fast way to take notes and make lists (http://othermind.me http://othermind.me). I'd really appreciate it if you could try it out and let me know whether you think it's useful and marketable. Any feedback in general would also be great. Thank you so much!

phzbOx 15y ago
You should definitely call it Overmind! (From Starcraft, it's the zerg master; or zerg brain if you will)
- chetan51 15y ago
  Haha, I didn't think of that. It would probably be a major brand name conflict if I did that :)
phzbOx 15y ago
This is my kind of app; I really like it. Particularly how you can do everything from the big textbox and how can send stuff by sms. Things I'd make better: - Provide a rest API; I'd love to be able to use it from my console - [Tab] would be really useful (To complete tags or date) - When I click "out" of the textbox when editing a todo, I don't want the [cancel] [save].. just save it. - I've tried to twitter it but it said something went wrong; It might be twitter or me though.. but still worth telling you - I'd like a quick keyboard shortcut a-la workflowy. I.e. If I have multiple tags and I want to remove one of them can I do -#tags? Or something similar. I could suggest lot of other things that "could be nice but would make it more complicated"; but instead, I'll use it for a while and stay you informed on what I really find missing. Also, little bug: When you add your account info (Email, phone), there's a textbox on the main page but we see html tags in it.. i.e. a href=mailto instead of a link. Keep the good work :)
- chetan51 15y ago
  Thanks for all those suggestions! Those things are definitely in the pipeline. About clicking out of the textbox to save an item, I actually had it like that, but I found that if I wanted to edit a long item and switch away to a different tab to refer to something and come back, it would have automatically saved it, and I would have to edit it again. So I consciously chose to have the current behavior (note that you can press Shift + Enter to save changes). But if enough people suggest to change it back, I will. I'm not sure I understand what the little bug you're referring to is. Do you mind posting a screenshot? Thanks for the encouragement :)
  - phzbOx 15y ago
    For the bug: Create a new account, play a little with it. Then go in your account page and add your phone number and email. Then, click back in the main screen. There should be a textbox added explaining that you can send an email to automatically add a task. Inside this textbox, there are some a href=mailto escaped.. I think it might not be supposed to be in a textbox at all.
mwdev 15y ago
This is a lot like what I tried with http://www.mindwallet.com http://www.mindwallet.com. Here is a video if you don't want to sign up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpAH7AGhIk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpAH7AGhIk I like the hash tag syntax quite a bit. I love these types of apps and seeing how different people approach it. The one box entry is also a really nice touch.
mikegreenberg 15y ago
I don't do well with digital notes. I don't know why. Despite numerous attempts, I can't manage my thoughts on a digital sheet. It's not convenient enough...yet. A physical notebook feels better to me... So digital notes and task lists aren't something I typically use. Additionally, I think there are too many barriers between me and my task list with services like this. I'm launching a similar product which helps individual keep track of people they know within their browser. My burning question is wondering whether the browser is the place where people are asking "Where did I know this guy from?" In a similar vein, I wonder if people will want to require an internet connection, browser, and however much time it takes for the user to access their account. Reducing the time gap between epiphany and recording seems like a noble goal for your product to tackle. I think if you get this part right, you'll have something that's marketable. (I believe it's usefulness is obvious and without question.) Other companies in this space have reduced this gap significantly by deploying a mobile version of their service. Regardless of a viable business model, this is really cool. :)
inconditus 15y ago
Hi, just wanted to let you know your application is vulnerable to XSS. I can impersonate users, steal login credientials, and more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting for more inofrmation.
- chetan51 15y ago
  Aw man, I should have checked for that. Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention. I'll work on it ASAP.
- chetan51 15y ago
  But since anything you input to the system will only be displayed back to you, how are you able to perform XSS attacks to steal other users' data? Did you mean database code injection?

phzbOx 15y ago

You should definitely call it Overmind! (From Starcraft, it's the zerg master; or zerg brain if you will)

chetan51 15y ago
Haha, I didn't think of that. It would probably be a major brand name conflict if I did that :)

phzbOx 15y ago

This is my kind of app; I really like it. Particularly how you can do everything from the big textbox and how can send stuff by sms. Things I'd make better: - Provide a rest API; I'd love to be able to use it from my console - [Tab] would be really useful (To complete tags or date) - When I click "out" of the textbox when editing a todo, I don't want the [cancel] [save].. just save it. - I've tried to twitter it but it said something went wrong; It might be twitter or me though.. but still worth telling you - I'd like a quick keyboard shortcut a-la workflowy. I.e. If I have multiple tags and I want to remove one of them can I do -#tags? Or something similar. I could suggest lot of other things that "could be nice but would make it more complicated"; but instead, I'll use it for a while and stay you informed on what I really find missing. Also, little bug: When you add your account info (Email, phone), there's a textbox on the main page but we see html tags in it.. i.e. a href=mailto instead of a link. Keep the good work :)

chetan51 15y ago
Thanks for all those suggestions! Those things are definitely in the pipeline. About clicking out of the textbox to save an item, I actually had it like that, but I found that if I wanted to edit a long item and switch away to a different tab to refer to something and come back, it would have automatically saved it, and I would have to edit it again. So I consciously chose to have the current behavior (note that you can press Shift + Enter to save changes). But if enough people suggest to change it back, I will. I'm not sure I understand what the little bug you're referring to is. Do you mind posting a screenshot? Thanks for the encouragement :)
- phzbOx 15y ago
  For the bug: Create a new account, play a little with it. Then go in your account page and add your phone number and email. Then, click back in the main screen. There should be a textbox added explaining that you can send an email to automatically add a task. Inside this textbox, there are some a href=mailto escaped.. I think it might not be supposed to be in a textbox at all.

mwdev 15y ago

This is a lot like what I tried with http://www.mindwallet.com http://www.mindwallet.com. Here is a video if you don't want to sign up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpAH7AGhIk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpAH7AGhIk I like the hash tag syntax quite a bit. I love these types of apps and seeing how different people approach it. The one box entry is also a really nice touch.

mikegreenberg 15y ago

I don't do well with digital notes. I don't know why. Despite numerous attempts, I can't manage my thoughts on a digital sheet. It's not convenient enough...yet. A physical notebook feels better to me... So digital notes and task lists aren't something I typically use. Additionally, I think there are too many barriers between me and my task list with services like this. I'm launching a similar product which helps individual keep track of people they know within their browser. My burning question is wondering whether the browser is the place where people are asking "Where did I know this guy from?" In a similar vein, I wonder if people will want to require an internet connection, browser, and however much time it takes for the user to access their account. Reducing the time gap between epiphany and recording seems like a noble goal for your product to tackle. I think if you get this part right, you'll have something that's marketable. (I believe it's usefulness is obvious and without question.) Other companies in this space have reduced this gap significantly by deploying a mobile version of their service. Regardless of a viable business model, this is really cool. :)

inconditus 15y ago

Hi, just wanted to let you know your application is vulnerable to XSS. I can impersonate users, steal login credientials, and more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting for more inofrmation.

chetan51 15y ago
Aw man, I should have checked for that. Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention. I'll work on it ASAP.
chetan51 15y ago
But since anything you input to the system will only be displayed back to you, how are you able to perform XSS attacks to steal other users' data? Did you mean database code injection?