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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by millhouse1112 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @12:56PM (#42034706)
It's a free app. I don't want to keep all the data for a long time. Should I increase this? What duration makes sense for you?
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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by bambax on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:00PM (#42034735)
If it was purely local (saved on localStorage) it could be stored indefinitely? But then of course it would be hard to share.
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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by foreigner on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:01PM (#42034748)
Store the state in the URL
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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by echoangle on Sunday November 03, 2024 @07:16PM (#42037242)
But then you have to reshare every modification
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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by millhouse1112 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:04PM (#42034764)
Yep. It's a share-first app in a sense.
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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by joegahona on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:23PM (#42034929)
I would try to find data like "tasks over 30 days old never get completed" and tie the decision (and marketing) to something like that.
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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by hanniabu on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:06PM (#42034781)
30 days makes more sense

Also why not make it all client side? When they grab a share link you can convert the text to image, image to base64 to spend to the URL, and when somebody opens the link you ocr it and recreate the list.

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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by millhouse1112 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:12PM (#42034837)
Me and my wife make some changes together. Add, remove, check, uncheck. Groceries list, etc.

With this approach we should share the new URL again after each change.

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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by type_Ben_struct on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:09PM (#42034809)
base64 isn’t just for images. You can encode text so unsure why you’d need OCR?
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