I was working on a todo app for Android over a decade ago and it was very simple. The only gimmick was that it tried to replicate the satisfaction of crossing o

I was working on a todo app for Android over a decade ago and it was very simple. The only gimmick was that it tried to replicate the satisfaction of crossing off a to do list item with pen and paper. Not checking it as done, clicking anticlimactically on a bubble next to the name, but running a line through it with extreme prejudice and satisfaction. Specifically, you were supposed to run your finger across it and it would be sliced in half with haptic and audio feedback. Because that’s the point of to do lists: to empty them. And giving a satisfying experience of completing an item seemed to me the best way to encourage that. I never finished it. I stick with pen and paper these days because it’s my opinion that a to do list should not survive the day it is written. Anything longer lived is not a to do list, but a list of goals or obligations. A slip of paper with hand scrawled tasks, easily lost, reinforces that. It’s funny to me, in fact, that I can write out a todo list faster than I can type (via phone keyboard) or dictate it. Modern tech is still so slow. Anyway, anyone please feel free to steal the gimmick if it fits into your project. I’m sure some app out there already has.