Tell HN: we've made dddone.com - a TODO app done right
Hi HN, we've made http://dddone.com. It's a TODO app. The main idea is that you can have 2 views of the same todo list: one is for the structure, so that you can have the global vision of the project, and one is for the priority with the most important tasks at the top. We made it for ourselves, because we felt no existing app satisfied our purposes and this approach seems to be extremely productive for us.
Hope you'll like it. Of course, any suggestions and reviews are welcome.
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- Gotta improve/simplify the actions between left and right view. It doesn't feel right that you can't mark an item DONE at the right.
- You should show completed tasks by default. Nothing more satisfying than seeing that checkmark and seeing what you've done. After a day or so, they can dissapear.
The reason I suggest it is that it would give you access to a number of users right off the bat which could be good for getting feedback from a large group of people who are actually going to use your app for their actual to-do list (rather than the informal sort of playing around with it I just did for a few minutes). In the end, it really depends on where you want to go with this.
- I do really love the concept. Awesome way to improve upon something so simple.
- The title editing is a little clunky: the edit button shouldn't be there (you should just be able to click the title), or else only show it on hover, and you need a submit/cancel button instead of only submitting on ENTER.
- The "edit" icon before each item: the placement of this (and the way it looks) make it look like it's a checkbox where you can check things of when they're done. Move "edit" to the right, and put a checkbox before each item where you can mark items done. Don't hide done items immediately, but remove the checkbox with a checkmark (Green) and leave the item there for a day or so.
I get an error in IE8. Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2) Timestamp: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:50:19 UTC
Message: 'console' is undefined Line: 48 Char: 11 Code: 0 URI: http://dddone.com/javascripts/app/event_set.js?1277907280
And allows you to search for the task/data/idea real fast with search-as-you-type.
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I liked your search-while-typing feature. Looks great.
two representations of the same todo list
Kind of. With FolderBoy, any note (or folder) can be in multiple places at the same time. So, I guess you could create a "Priority" folder, with all your tasks arranged by priority, and also put these (exact same) tasks in another folder(s) with them organized in a more project-like way.
I think what yours does better is that you can have two lists side by side.
Ah, yes, we don't do sharing...yet!
Does that mean something else in the back-end? or is it the same ? The view/hide done tasks link is confusing because it's resetting the list which make it useless trying it out.
_ Update: Also it's weird to have the Pencil icon on the left, make a change, and then have to go all the way to the right for save. Maybe it's easier to just keep everything on one side?
As for the pencil ico and save button - you can simply hit "Enter", that will save the title.
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