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I've built several checklists that I come back to. I have one for weekend plane trips, one for short hikes, one for camping, one for road trips. It's always n

by all2 2y ago

I've built several checklists that I come back to. I have one for weekend plane trips, one for short hikes, one for camping, one for road trips. It's always nice to be able to go back to a checklist and not have to remember all the stuff that needs to be packed. It's also good to be able to update the checklist mid-trip with a "man, I wish I had a..." For repeatable tasks I have a habit tracker on my phone, it's free and does what I need it to do. When I'm near my phone later I will update with which one it is. Congrats on the launch! I'll definitely give yours a try.

all2 2y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha... << Here's the app I use.
walthamstow 2y ago
Interesting to read that your main uses for this would be packing for trips. I started building a packing app last year but never followed through. On Reddit r/onebag they use lighterpack a lot, but I think it's rubbish and is ripe for replacement.
- jjj123 2y ago
  It takes some doing, but you can build a pretty competent trip planning/packing app all within something like Airtable or Notion. This is what I use, I have a db called “trips”, when a new page is added it pre-fills with a generic trip packing checklist that I can customize.
  - mthoms 2y ago
    I did this as well but the problem I ran into is that Airtable is (or used to be?) terrible on mobile. Having just a single description field accompanied by a single checkbox in one view takes up two lines in the mobile ui.
  - walthamstow 2y ago
    Does this cater for the same item, a toothbrush for example, being in multiple pack lists?
    - jjj123 2y ago
      Yeah it works fine, when you click the “new page” button the template just gets duplicated from the base. So toothbrush will be duplicated for each new trip, checking one off won’t affect the others. To be clear: it’s not a table of items to check off, it’s a table of packing list pages, within each page is a simple checklist.

by all2 2y ago

all2 2y ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha... << Here's the app I use.

walthamstow 2y ago

Interesting to read that your main uses for this would be packing for trips. I started building a packing app last year but never followed through. On Reddit r/onebag they use lighterpack a lot, but I think it's rubbish and is ripe for replacement.

jjj123 2y ago
It takes some doing, but you can build a pretty competent trip planning/packing app all within something like Airtable or Notion. This is what I use, I have a db called “trips”, when a new page is added it pre-fills with a generic trip packing checklist that I can customize.
- mthoms 2y ago
  I did this as well but the problem I ran into is that Airtable is (or used to be?) terrible on mobile. Having just a single description field accompanied by a single checkbox in one view takes up two lines in the mobile ui.
- walthamstow 2y ago
  Does this cater for the same item, a toothbrush for example, being in multiple pack lists?
  - jjj123 2y ago
    Yeah it works fine, when you click the “new page” button the template just gets duplicated from the base. So toothbrush will be duplicated for each new trip, checking one off won’t affect the others. To be clear: it’s not a table of items to check off, it’s a table of packing list pages, within each page is a simple checklist.