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My dream to-do app is a combination of some novel features plus the best ideas from other apps (TaskPaper, Notational Velocity, Drafts app, SimpleNote, etc...)
by Leftium 3y ago
My dream to-do app is a combination of some novel features plus the best ideas from other apps (TaskPaper, Notational Velocity, Drafts app, SimpleNote, etc...)
The overall concept is tasks, notes, and bookmarks are integrated together. As I do a task, I often want to take notes on that task. Some bookmarks can be tasks to read/share later.
- Plaintext-based interaction + graphical views (markdown, calendar/timeline, etc...)
- TaskPaper-style tags like @due(2023-10-10)
- Drafts-style actions on text
- Multiplatform/sync like SimpleNote
The novel features of my to-do app:
- Priority is just the due-date: I usually want to work first on tasks that are due earlier.
- Larger tasks are broken down into sub-tasks. Those sub-tasks can have earlier due dates, bumping up the "effective priority."
- "Effective Priority" is a dynamic tag: its value is based on the first of the parent's or children's due-dates.
I've been making prototypes of subsets of the features, like:
- https://multi-launch.leftium.com/ https://multi-launch.leftium.com/
- https://instant.leftium.com/ https://instant.leftium.com/
- https://todo-taskpaper.leftium.com/ https://todo-taskpaper.leftium.com/
- https://plaintext-press.leftium.com/https://www.dropbox.com/s/1g5qrmfinno8a5j/patagonia.taskpaper https://plaintext-press.leftium.com/https://www.dropbox.com/...
- https://github.com/Leftium/todo.html https://github.com/Leftium/todo.html
- purplecats 3y agoit may be of interest to you that TaskPaper was recent open-sourced to an extent
- spikey_sanju 3y agoYour suggested tasks, notes, and bookmarks are much needed, similar to features in apps like Trello, Todoist, Notion, etc. Combining plain-text interaction with graphical views is cool. Multiplatform sync is a plus. However, many of these features already exist in some apps. In 2023, it's surprising that there's no app yet to plan our day based on priority and thought process, aided by AI and more. Seems like AGI is still far off.