Re:Show HN: General Task, a free task manager for builders (...
by scatterhead on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:07AM
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First thing I always wanna know with these things is what happens with my data after your servers die?
Why? How often does anyone do anything with the data they've exported from some service?
Maybe it's just me. But I feel like starting over setting up all your to-do tasks and what-not is going to take less time then writing some script to parse data from one format and upload it to some new system. Especially given that there will be a delta in featuresets.
Re:Show HN: General Task, a free task manager for builders (...
by culi on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:05AM
(#33702951)
I definitely do so. I've tried half a dozen podcast apps in the past decade and being able to export my subscriptions as an opml or otherwise is something I pay a lot of attention to now. I've had to webscrape or do some really hacky things to access my data one too many times
Similar for notes and todo apps. I like to pull my data in, analyze it, visualize it, convert it to other formats, etc
Even when I don't yet have specific plans for my data I like to know I can pull it in and make local backups
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Mentioned apps with how they handle your data:
• [General Task](https://try.generaltask.com/) – free, proprietary § ???
• [Emery](https://emery.to/) – $7/month, proprietary § Data lives on their server, when your subscription expires your account goes into read-only mode and can still view your data
• [Atomic](https://www.atomiclife.app/) – free tier, proprietary § ???