Re:Ask YC: What do you use for time and todo tracking?
by scorpioxy on Monday June 23, 2008 @05:40AM
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Programmer and Freelancer and fledgling founder here. I share your views about how a todo app is supposed to function. I am actually trying to implement one, now if someone would like to collaborate with me, then that would be great.
I have a simple app called taskit(GPL) that i wrote hoping that it would transition to what you describe, but i didn't really have time for that alone. And it's beginning to show its design deficiencies.
Re:Ask YC: What do you use for time and todo tracking?
by krschultz on Monday June 23, 2008 @12:11PM
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Tell me about it, I started to roll my own and then I thought, wait, the amount of time saved by doing this is outweighed by the amount of time I will spend coding. There is a surprising lack of open source tools to modify as well. I feel like it might be a good candidate for a ruby on rails app but then you need internet access which you don't always have when you want to edit a task.
Founder and programmer here. And flat files are really convenient when you know your way around a text editor. But if all TODO systems are so bad we programmers have failed, haven't we? Why can't we have our cake and eat it too?
Edit TODOs quickly as if it's a flat file, and at the same time get time reporting, tags and all the advantages of a structured approach. That's what I want, now I think about it.