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Todon't app

31 points by Idered 15y ago

krmmalik 15y ago
I'd like to see the app before i decide to register. I was intrigued by your premise, but i dont want to sign up. At least not right now.
- michaelhoffman 15y ago
  Yeah, some screenshots would be ideal. A guest account would be even more ideal. Without these, you will have a very high bounce rate.
- Idered 15y ago
  I'm working on test page for guests.
- RyanMcGreal 15y ago
  There's a test page now: http://todont.idered.pl/test http://todont.idered.pl/test
fredley 15y ago
It's a nice idea, you could really do with some fun usage ideas though, something simple like "Don't eat a donut"
arscan 15y ago
Funny idea, though I wouldn't sign up before I saw what it actually looked like. Maybe put up the image in your deviantart gallery (if it looks like this): http://idered.deviantart.com/gallery/36159015#/d4t5dva http://idered.deviantart.com/gallery/36159015#/d4t5dva BTW, what is the "Design It & Code It" project? Just a personal thing or something done across the deviantart community?
- Idered 15y ago
  It's just my personal project :)
boofar 15y ago
Half-relevant: Funnily, I just arrived at this passage in "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength"[1]: "We devoted chapter 3 to the glorious history of the to-do list, but we realize that some readers might still not feel like drawing one up. It can sound dreary and off-putting. If so, try thinking of it as a todon’t list: a catalog of things that you don’t have to worry about once you write them down. As we saw in our discussion of the Zeigarnik effect, when you try to ignore unfinished tasks, your unconscious keeps fretting about them in the same way that an ear worm keeps playing an unfinished song. You can’t banish them from your brain by procrastinating or by willing yourself to forget them. But once you make a specific plan, your unconscious will be mollified. You need to at least plan the specific next step to take: what to do, whom to contact, how to do it (in person? by phone? by e-mail?). If you can also plan specifically when and where to do it, so much the better, but that’s not essential. As long as you’ve decided what to do and put it on the list, your unconscious can relax." [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human-Strength/dp/1594203075/ http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human...
omarkassim 15y ago
Unfortunately the sign up process (without knowing what I was signing up for) forced me to add this to my todon't list.
icebraining 15y ago
Tried to sign up, but nothing happens after submitting the form.
- Idered 15y ago
  Hmm, it does work. After sign up you're redirected to frontpage with todon't app.
mistircek 15y ago
Few comments: The "todon't" list is looking like a textbox. At first I thought maybe it's for details of the "stuff we should not have done", only after submitting item i could get, "Ah this is the list itself". Also, only clue I had about what the app suppose to do was it's name and tagline.
glenntzke 15y ago
The test app seems to be having troubles. Running in chrome, i can enter text in the task input then....nothing? Enter and tab are met with silence.
Idered 15y ago
Sorry, there were some problems. Now everything is ok :)
frou_dh 15y ago
I'd already started an analog version: Self vs. unread / unfinished books: http://i.imgur.com/vKxDM.jpg http://i.imgur.com/vKxDM.jpg
- Idered 15y ago
  That's version is fine too :)
Mystitat 15y ago
Went to the About page for context, found none. So ... this is an app to keep track of my failures? Why should I keep track of things I don't want to do? IIRC, it's more effective to enforce a new behavior by phrasing it in the positive, like, "Stay quiet" instead of "Don't talk." Am I wrong? You should convince me on the About page.
mjoxley 15y ago
This is great fun! Some sort of feedback loop might be useful. I don't profess to understand the 12 steps (and not to trivialise by comparison) but I guess counting the number of successful days of not doing something in a chain becomes reinforcing e.g. when has a smoker actually stopped smoking? Or alternatively is the payoff a reward e.g. "Dont eat a donut for 6 days if then eat a donut else try again"

31 points by Idered 15y ago

I'd like to see the app before i decide to register. I was intrigued by your premise, but i dont want to sign up. At least not right now.

michaelhoffman 15y ago
Yeah, some screenshots would be ideal. A guest account would be even more ideal. Without these, you will have a very high bounce rate.
Idered 15y ago
I'm working on test page for guests.
RyanMcGreal 15y ago
There's a test page now: http://todont.idered.pl/test http://todont.idered.pl/test

fredley 15y ago

It's a nice idea, you could really do with some fun usage ideas though, something simple like "Don't eat a donut"

arscan 15y ago

Funny idea, though I wouldn't sign up before I saw what it actually looked like. Maybe put up the image in your deviantart gallery (if it looks like this): http://idered.deviantart.com/gallery/36159015#/d4t5dva http://idered.deviantart.com/gallery/36159015#/d4t5dva BTW, what is the "Design It & Code It" project? Just a personal thing or something done across the deviantart community?

Idered 15y ago
It's just my personal project :)

boofar 15y ago

Half-relevant: Funnily, I just arrived at this passage in "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength"[1]: "We devoted chapter 3 to the glorious history of the to-do list, but we realize that some readers might still not feel like drawing one up. It can sound dreary and off-putting. If so, try thinking of it as a todon’t list: a catalog of things that you don’t have to worry about once you write them down. As we saw in our discussion of the Zeigarnik effect, when you try to ignore unfinished tasks, your unconscious keeps fretting about them in the same way that an ear worm keeps playing an unfinished song. You can’t banish them from your brain by procrastinating or by willing yourself to forget them. But once you make a specific plan, your unconscious will be mollified. You need to at least plan the specific next step to take: what to do, whom to contact, how to do it (in person? by phone? by e-mail?). If you can also plan specifically when and where to do it, so much the better, but that’s not essential. As long as you’ve decided what to do and put it on the list, your unconscious can relax." [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human-Strength/dp/1594203075/ http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human...

omarkassim 15y ago

Unfortunately the sign up process (without knowing what I was signing up for) forced me to add this to my todon't list.

icebraining 15y ago

Tried to sign up, but nothing happens after submitting the form.

Idered 15y ago
Hmm, it does work. After sign up you're redirected to frontpage with todon't app.

mistircek 15y ago

Few comments: The "todon't" list is looking like a textbox. At first I thought maybe it's for details of the "stuff we should not have done", only after submitting item i could get, "Ah this is the list itself". Also, only clue I had about what the app suppose to do was it's name and tagline.

glenntzke 15y ago

The test app seems to be having troubles. Running in chrome, i can enter text in the task input then....nothing? Enter and tab are met with silence.

Idered 15y ago

Sorry, there were some problems. Now everything is ok :)

frou_dh 15y ago

I'd already started an analog version: Self vs. unread / unfinished books: http://i.imgur.com/vKxDM.jpg http://i.imgur.com/vKxDM.jpg

Idered 15y ago
That's version is fine too :)

Mystitat 15y ago

Went to the About page for context, found none. So ... this is an app to keep track of my failures? Why should I keep track of things I don't want to do? IIRC, it's more effective to enforce a new behavior by phrasing it in the positive, like, "Stay quiet" instead of "Don't talk." Am I wrong? You should convince me on the About page.

mjoxley 15y ago

This is great fun! Some sort of feedback loop might be useful. I don't profess to understand the 12 steps (and not to trivialise by comparison) but I guess counting the number of successful days of not doing something in a chain becomes reinforcing e.g. when has a smoker actually stopped smoking? Or alternatively is the payoff a reward e.g. "Dont eat a donut for 6 days if then eat a donut else try again"