educated_idiot

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by educated_idiot 6y ago
While the dictionary definition is not the same, I think they are "similar" enough. Also, it's up to the user to define impact/importance, depending on their state of mind/ prioritization need. It's not a rigid
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
I only tried your app on phone but it looks like you can't tap and add or drag things around. You always need to edit the numbers. Maybe the UX/UI could use some love?
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Oh man, I hear you, most of this stuff is really random. your app was pretty neat though
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Thanks! I like cool names, plus I wanted to make planning/ prioritization fun and not daunting.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Haha, I would not be surprised if Beatnik gave birth to the word 'baller'.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Fair enough. Yeah, I don't intend to make money off this, so will open source soon.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Yeah, I haven't given it that much thought. It only started as a weekend project. I would like to keep it as local as I can. Possibly, there will be 2 uses: a non-db, non-url, local version AND an account based thing.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Lol, this is hilarious.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
The highlighted task is the "most" important task in terms of impact and urgency.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Interesting! Yeah that's an easy fix.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
It's all the same. From what I read today, Eisenhower used and popularized it and then Covey improved upon it and used it in his book. Same stuff, just different packaging, this one too :D
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Doable but no such plans yet
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Yep, those are awesome suggestions. I'm gonna work with some friends who know UX to improve that.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Eventually, depending on how it goes, the URL will contain a key to some DB entry, so multi-device persistence can work. Adding all this to the URL is doable too, I might just start with that, thanks for the idea ;)
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
To those who pointed out that I should mention Eisenhower or Covey, they have been given due credit here: https://ballertodo.com/what Thanks for informing me about Covey :)
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Haha, IKR! Too many accounts :D
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Color/ size seem to be the common consensus, and I will work that in. Edges clutter things too much
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Yes, it makes the screen eerily blank and uninviting. Maybe I can grey them out or something
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Oh boy, you are right. I missed that! Will fix. Thanks for bringing it up.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Cheers! I did not know this from Covey's book, but TIL :)
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Yeah, planning is a double edged sword. And I don't believe one tool works for everyone or all needs. Our brains and thought processes are too varied to all fit in opinionated frameworks. Yeah, I posted here for the feedback/ resp
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Sure. I think the axis names is easy enough. I need to start working on the sharing/ saving of accounts coz a bunch of folks have requested that now
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Yep, IIUC what you are talking about is similar to the question others have raised about an "Effort" dimension. To keep the daily or slightly more long term planning simple, I opted to not consider those dimensions. You raise a g
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
FYI You click on the empty graph to create tasks in the 2D grid.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Argh, that means I did a bad job at the UI. The "things" on the right are not supposed to be buttons, but cards that get updated when you add tasks. There is only one button, the last one which says "completed" which c
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Fair enough, that's an easy fix. Will update. Thanks for the advice
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Haha, take the other people out of the equation. This is more about self-prioritization. How your team/ org works/ prioritises depends on a variety of factors and I do not think any single framework will serve all those. This is
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Yes, essentially. A list is one-dimensional, so you can only rank a task by it's order. There are actually multiple dimensions that our brain considers when making decisions, but I only chose these 2. There could be more (as others ha
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Haha thanks for the offer but I will have to decline. I am kinda in my own space right now, just tinkering with some ideas.
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by educated_idiot 6y ago
Thanks! Yep, lists aren't great, unless they all fall in the same domain (like grocery shopping, travel packing, etc.). Bring in context change and they tend to become less useful, really quickly. As others have pointed out, this is no

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