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Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely min
by _jcrossley 4y ago
Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely minimalist habit tracker. I’m terrible at marketing (my Show HN had zero response) but it’s had a growing organic user base that seems to love it.
- isanjay 4y agoNo Android version?
- _jcrossley 4y agoNot yet :( But maybe with GPT4!
- gman83 4y agoTry Loop Habit Tracker.
- _jcrossley 4y ago+1, I’ve heard great things and I don’t think I should try to compete
- humanlion87 4y ago+1 to this. Simple, no gimmicks and gets the job done.
- goldtownjac 4y agoThis is exactly what I’ve been looking for on so many levels. +1 user.
- Neff 4y agoOne thing that may help is standing up a simple product landing page to describe what the product is and linking off to the app store. When I tried to search just for "Pixelist" on DDG I didn't see the app on the first page. Once I added iOS then it was findable. Your app seems really neat. It reminds me of the everyday calendar that Simone Giertz made.
- _jcrossley 4y agoThanks so much - you’re right, I think it’s about time to finally create a product page. Also thanks for the pointer, the everyday calendar looks great!
- MattDemers 4y agoThank you; finding a habit tracker on IOS that isn't juiced to the gills with social and/or subscription features is impossible.
- _jcrossley 4y agoThanks! Hope it sticks for you. To replace my paper bullet journal, I wanted to stay far away from social, subscriptions, notifications, etc etc.
- littlelady 4y agoIt looks really nice! I'm looking for an app to replace my current tracking system. If I may give some feedback: when editing the name of the habit, could you please insert the habit name string into the text field? Completely retyping it is a bit cumbersome.
- _jcrossley 4y agoWow, thank you! It’s been years since I’ve touched the app, and I would’ve sworn it already did that. Will dust it off!
- emerongi 4y agoI noticed that if you drag a habit to the last position, but a little bit too far, the app crashes. Excellent app otherwise, I really like the simplicity! :)
- _jcrossley 4y agoAwesome!! Thanks for finding that, I was wondering where the (very few) daily crashes are coming from. And thanks, hope it’s useful for you!
- adolph 4y agoDoes it have a URL scheme to note execution of habits?
- _jcrossley 4y agoIt doesn’t, but that’s a clever idea!
- adolph 4y agoI asked because I just got a few nfc tags to play with. They can have a uri programmed into them, so that whenever I tap them, the uri is accessed. This is often used with Apple's Shortcuts app for example. It would be neat to be able to tap something to mark the habit behavior as being done.
- petr24 4y agoI am definitely a ghost user of hacker news, but I had to comment on this. What a great app. Great work and thank you!
- _jcrossley 4y agoThanks! Really appreciate it <3
- TurkishPoptart 4y agoLooks cool but what do the different colors mean? Hard to follow.
- _jcrossley 4y ago100% up to you. All of my habits are different, but usually for me it’s something like “I did it / I did it well / I did it great”.
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- gen_greyface 4y agoThe app's size is 25mb,seems a bit much for minimalist app. what did you use to build it.
- _jcrossley 4y agoHm, I’m not sure what adds up to 25MB but overall it’s very lean on dependencies - essentially just RxSwift. It might also be the Swift runtime, which used to be bundled into binaries before ABI stability.
- ukuina 4y agoMicrosoft Todo is 127mb. This is among the lightest Todo app on the app store.
- gen_greyface 4y agonot a todo app, but a minimalist time tracker that i use. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hourly-time-and-task-manager/id1308461936 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hourly-time-and-task-manager/i... its around 18mb for my phone, i was comparing both in my head, so was curious about what was used to build it. but it seems its smaller because of device specific packaging. P.S. i do like the OP's app.
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- StrangeATractor 4y agoTickmate was something I used for a long time, but Google says it's too old for my Android. =( https://github.com/lordi/tickmate https://github.com/lordi/tickmate
- tachim 4y agoTough to use this without a way to export data.
- _jcrossley 4y agoI’ve had several requests for this. If/when I pick it up, it’s on the shortlist :)
- Birkeholm 4y agoKudos on the app. It looks and feels great. May I suggest to add a ‘long press’ on the theme to lock it?
- _jcrossley 4y agoThank you!! Is the problem that it's too easy to tap Theme, and it's annoying to then cycle through all?
- Birkeholm 4y agoYes, exactly. And there is no indication of wether it actually cycles through or is generating at random. So I wasn’t even sure I could get it back. It’s small stuff though.
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 4y agoI would love to see the source code of this application, but even if you can't or don't want to open-source it, it's a fun application.
- _jcrossley 4y agoThanks, I'd love to open-source it someday! It's a beautiful mess.
- choilive 4y agono intel mac support? :(
- Benano 4y agoReally nice looking, wonderfully intentioned app. Thanks for being uncouth else I would not have found it.
- kickaha 4y agoVery couth. Opened the comments only to see referrals to minimal alternatives. Everything what my ADD brain needs. Nothing my ADD brain doesn’t need. And perfect alignment with libre ideals! May I suggest that you make a tiny update, just so that the App Store can tout your impeccable privacy policy!
- _jcrossley 4y ago:D So happy to hear! It’s definitely built for the no-distractions mindset. Great idea to update for PNLs!