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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by edfletcher_t137 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:12PM (#42034840)
You may want to consider a keep-alive strategy based on usage and not an arbitrary static timeout. What if I need my checklist for 7.5 days? A corollary is that this may reduce your overall data usage as a lot of people may create a list and immediately abandon it. If you can expire those in less than 7 days, you're saving.
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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 @01:17PM (#42034886)
Good idea. It's simple to track this. What idle duration limit makes sense for deletion?
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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by nbk_2000 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @03:16PM (#42035800)
90 days since last view, or 1 year if you can afford to be generous. For "slow burn" projects with other people checklists easily go longer than a week without being looked at.
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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by edfletcher_t137 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:29PM (#42034986)
That's a great question! And fortunately, one where you can use human behavior as a guide: if someone is actively using a checklist it seems reasonable to presume they're at least accessing it once a day. So as a quick first-pass, double that time period to two days. Also start collecting usage metrics and mine those in the future to further refine this number.
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Re:I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so ... by stanmancan on Sunday November 03, 2024 @02:06PM (#42035298)
User initiated; maybe some arbitrarily long duration measured in years.
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