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Show HN: Ordently – Consciously plan your day and your life

34 points by kyoteap 3y ago

I've been using a task management tool for the past 1 year that I built. A few months ago, I spent some time to make it more generic because my partner wanted to use it as well and she's been loving it ever since. Love her, but she's a bit biased. Firstly, this is a todo app for your life. Existing tools are built around how we work as employees in a company. With a company, all the habits, goals, vision and rituals are given to you in an employee handbook. The company is our coach, and in most cases, we listen and do as the coach says. Its easier to get things done in this environment. In our personal lives, we gotta figure out our goals, work on our habits and setup rituals. We're also more flexible, more forgiving on when we want to do certain things and more rigid on the others. The Daily Planner is central to that ideology, working with one off and repeatable tasks . You onboard with your day first, could be as simple as calling your mum or going on a walk or do yoga. As you get more comfortable, you start to consciously build a life that you want to live by creating rituals and setting goals as you get more confident. Personally, I haven't been able to get that through Todoist or Notion.

kyoteap 3y ago
I just deployed the registration flow, you can signup here - https://app.ordently.com/signup https://app.ordently.com/signup
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wg0 3y ago
Lovely craftsmanship. Can't wait to use it. Neat Interface. I really need something bit more powerful than Google Keep. Just curious - Is it flutter or Electron?
- kyoteap 3y ago
  Thanks! :) Neither. A good ol React app. I do plan to convert this into Flutter eventually once I'd need native capabilities. But for now, it works well as a PWA.
  - wg0 3y ago
    No need to. Nothing is as powerful as web. Not flutter for sure. Not yet.
hackernewds 3y ago
Can we try it? How can feedback be solicited with a wait-list
- kyoteap 3y ago
  Absolutely. I haven't built the registration flow yet, I'll have to create your account manually. I'm just a one person team here. :D If you've signed up, you'll get an invite within 12 hours.
lifeisstillgood 3y ago
Ok - I signed up. but a couple of questions and a rant 1. is it a phone based thing? I am guessing but I cannot tell 2. is it stored somewhere else or do I just keep control? And. Rant. I just feel exploded into many shards - there is email (good luck controlling that - I used to have some search and control when it was all on my laptop but who manages email on their laptop anymore?). But there is whatsapp and sms / imessage / we are on the facebook group I am not sure where I am going with this - I think that todo lists aren't the problem - it's "what have I missed" lists as well as "what am I obliged / required to be doing" as well as the finally arrived at "what essential things do I conciously choose" It's nice to get to the "conciously choose" but that always feels like I am waiting for the other shoe to drop because I am not sure what has been missed - so yeah - I want to comciously know what I am conciously not doing. A DoNotDo list just to keep me unstressed ? But much kudos to you for actually building a product and launching - fantastic I hope it goes to the moon :-)
- kyoteap 3y ago
  Ah, thanks a ton! <3 1. Its a web app primarily. Its a progressive web app, so you can use it on your phone as well. I'm on iOS and my partner is on Android and both work well so far. :) 2. Its stored on a central database with DigitalOcean. I do like the idea of being able to store it locally on a phone. But I haven't built that yet. I totally get your rant. I guess there will always be things that we miss or skip or forget doing. For me its important that I don't get stressed over the DoNoDo list, because there is always going to be something and more. Instead, I focus on what I do end up doing. At the end of the day, I look back at my list and feel pretty good about it, because a year ago I wouldn't have been able to do as much. Its been a process to get here, but I'm quite happy that I did. :)
  - lifeisstillgood 3y ago
    Aha. Optimism! :-) thank you. and good luck with the project. Look forward to trying it out
Terretta 3y ago
> Firstly, this is a todo app for your life. Existing tools are built around how we work as employees in a company. On the contrary, that's a very recent development. Since the 50s (and earlier) there have been commercial personal systems that are 'to do apps for your life', with this millennium's most famous being GTD aka "Getting Things Done", and last half of last century in the USA being Day-Timer (and similar tiny pre-printed planning organizer lists+calendars+journals). If you squint, most useful 'planners' end up re-implementing some form of GTD, David Allen's "Getting Things Done" which itself had that rich heritage from DayTimer and other paper based systems before it. GTD basically has themes, workflows, and perspectives. It can be implemented in Outlook, Trello, OneNote, RememberTheMilk, Vitalist, ToodleDo, NirvanaHQ, Agenda, or the perhaps too powerful "OmniFocus" which predates most of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-Timer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-Timer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus https://www.nirvanahq.com https://www.nirvanahq.com Recent changes to iOS Reminders brings it up to handling this cleanly as well. In the list of apps above, two of them seem very much not like the others: OneNote, and Trello. OneNote can do this system using Tasks, Flags, and its tie ins to calendar. Trello can do this because Personal Kanban shares most of the underlying principles with GTD: https://www.personalkanban.com https://www.personalkanban.com Rule 1: Visualize Your Work - You Can Better Manage What You See Rule 2: Limit Work-in-Progress - You Can’t Do More Work Than You Can Handle. End the stress of overload, always know what to do next, communicate better with others, and find the joy of completion. Dumping your list somewhere so you don't stress about forgetting it and getting an unpleasant surprise is half the reward. It's not work to make lists, it's a stress relief! The other half is the dopamine hit of marking an [x] or moving to the Done column. PS. You might be astonished how many apps sync with Toodledo: https://www.toodledo.com/tools/directory.php https://www.toodledo.com/tools/directory.php It's interesting to check out the objects they think are important for a sort of universal personal TODO API: http://api.toodledo.com/3/index.php http://api.toodledo.com/3/index.php
senectus1 3y ago
Looks like no self host option? looks pretty though.
- kyoteap 3y ago
  Thanks :) No self host option so far. I'll give it a thought sometime next week.
mtlynch 3y ago
This looks neat, but it's not a Show HN, as we can't try it out yet: >Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. >On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok. >Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- kyoteap 3y ago
  I'm guessing a mod added that in, since I didn't. It is accessible tho. It just takes a bit for me to create an account.
Brajeshwar 3y ago
Timestripe is a similar tool focused more you as a person and not just work. It approaches and pick up the idea of Your Life in Weeks from Wait but Why. https://timestripe.com/ https://timestripe.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
- kyoteap 3y ago
  Looks really good, thanks for sharing. :)

34 points by kyoteap 3y ago

kyoteap 3y ago

I just deployed the registration flow, you can signup here - https://app.ordently.com/signup https://app.ordently.com/signup

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wg0 3y ago

Lovely craftsmanship. Can't wait to use it. Neat Interface. I really need something bit more powerful than Google Keep. Just curious - Is it flutter or Electron?

kyoteap 3y ago
Thanks! :) Neither. A good ol React app. I do plan to convert this into Flutter eventually once I'd need native capabilities. But for now, it works well as a PWA.
- wg0 3y ago
  No need to. Nothing is as powerful as web. Not flutter for sure. Not yet.

hackernewds 3y ago

Can we try it? How can feedback be solicited with a wait-list

kyoteap 3y ago
Absolutely. I haven't built the registration flow yet, I'll have to create your account manually. I'm just a one person team here. :D If you've signed up, you'll get an invite within 12 hours.

lifeisstillgood 3y ago

Ok - I signed up. but a couple of questions and a rant 1. is it a phone based thing? I am guessing but I cannot tell 2. is it stored somewhere else or do I just keep control? And. Rant. I just feel exploded into many shards - there is email (good luck controlling that - I used to have some search and control when it was all on my laptop but who manages email on their laptop anymore?). But there is whatsapp and sms / imessage / we are on the facebook group I am not sure where I am going with this - I think that todo lists aren't the problem - it's "what have I missed" lists as well as "what am I obliged / required to be doing" as well as the finally arrived at "what essential things do I conciously choose" It's nice to get to the "conciously choose" but that always feels like I am waiting for the other shoe to drop because I am not sure what has been missed - so yeah - I want to comciously know what I am conciously not doing. A DoNotDo list just to keep me unstressed ? But much kudos to you for actually building a product and launching - fantastic I hope it goes to the moon :-)

kyoteap 3y ago
Ah, thanks a ton! <3 1. Its a web app primarily. Its a progressive web app, so you can use it on your phone as well. I'm on iOS and my partner is on Android and both work well so far. :) 2. Its stored on a central database with DigitalOcean. I do like the idea of being able to store it locally on a phone. But I haven't built that yet. I totally get your rant. I guess there will always be things that we miss or skip or forget doing. For me its important that I don't get stressed over the DoNoDo list, because there is always going to be something and more. Instead, I focus on what I do end up doing. At the end of the day, I look back at my list and feel pretty good about it, because a year ago I wouldn't have been able to do as much. Its been a process to get here, but I'm quite happy that I did. :)
- lifeisstillgood 3y ago
  Aha. Optimism! :-) thank you. and good luck with the project. Look forward to trying it out

Terretta 3y ago

> Firstly, this is a todo app for your life. Existing tools are built around how we work as employees in a company. On the contrary, that's a very recent development. Since the 50s (and earlier) there have been commercial personal systems that are 'to do apps for your life', with this millennium's most famous being GTD aka "Getting Things Done", and last half of last century in the USA being Day-Timer (and similar tiny pre-printed planning organizer lists+calendars+journals). If you squint, most useful 'planners' end up re-implementing some form of GTD, David Allen's "Getting Things Done" which itself had that rich heritage from DayTimer and other paper based systems before it. GTD basically has themes, workflows, and perspectives. It can be implemented in Outlook, Trello, OneNote, RememberTheMilk, Vitalist, ToodleDo, NirvanaHQ, Agenda, or the perhaps too powerful "OmniFocus" which predates most of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-Timer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-Timer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus https://www.nirvanahq.com https://www.nirvanahq.com Recent changes to iOS Reminders brings it up to handling this cleanly as well. In the list of apps above, two of them seem very much not like the others: OneNote, and Trello. OneNote can do this system using Tasks, Flags, and its tie ins to calendar. Trello can do this because Personal Kanban shares most of the underlying principles with GTD: https://www.personalkanban.com https://www.personalkanban.com Rule 1: Visualize Your Work - You Can Better Manage What You See Rule 2: Limit Work-in-Progress - You Can’t Do More Work Than You Can Handle. End the stress of overload, always know what to do next, communicate better with others, and find the joy of completion. Dumping your list somewhere so you don't stress about forgetting it and getting an unpleasant surprise is half the reward. It's not work to make lists, it's a stress relief! The other half is the dopamine hit of marking an [x] or moving to the Done column. PS. You might be astonished how many apps sync with Toodledo: https://www.toodledo.com/tools/directory.php https://www.toodledo.com/tools/directory.php It's interesting to check out the objects they think are important for a sort of universal personal TODO API: http://api.toodledo.com/3/index.php http://api.toodledo.com/3/index.php

senectus1 3y ago

Looks like no self host option? looks pretty though.

kyoteap 3y ago
Thanks :) No self host option so far. I'll give it a thought sometime next week.

mtlynch 3y ago

This looks neat, but it's not a Show HN, as we can't try it out yet: >Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. >On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok. >Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

kyoteap 3y ago
I'm guessing a mod added that in, since I didn't. It is accessible tho. It just takes a bit for me to create an account.

Brajeshwar 3y ago

Timestripe is a similar tool focused more you as a person and not just work. It approaches and pick up the idea of Your Life in Weeks from Wait but Why. https://timestripe.com/ https://timestripe.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

kyoteap 3y ago
Looks really good, thanks for sharing. :)