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Re:Show HN: tyto by untothebreach on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:45AM (#6887352)

  > 5.Cool, I will take a look at them, I haven't been too sure on save options. The initial idea was that developers wanted to save something they could then send to a PM who could load the same thing make changes and maybe send back.

To me (and I am no usability expert so, ya know, 'grain of salt' and all that), this sounds more like an "Export" operation than a "Save" operation. I agree with the parent that localStorage or IndexedDB would be good, and combining one of them with auto-save would be even better. Perhaps the 'Save' button in the menu could then be changed to 'Export' or something?

EDIT:

Also, the use of localStorage could make this 'todo' from the README partly obsolete:

  > online persistence if there was demand. this does however mean accounts which isn't cool but maybe the notion of guest accounts and persistent accounts whereby multiple boards could be saved.

LocalStorage wouldn't enable a user to get their boards from anywhere, but could help, as the parent says, with the 'oops i closed my browser' case.

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Re:Show HN: tyto by wiresurfer on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:47PM (#6892035)

how about exporting/saving/backing up to a cloud storage provider like skydrive/dropbox. That should remove the need to maintain accounts. You can use the javascript dropbox sdk to replicate/backup the local storage file onto the cloud. When a user accesses it via some other computer, simple ask him to login to his dropbox account and you can sync the local storage once the access is available. Just my two cents

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Re:Show HN: tyto by codez on Thursday December 12, 2013 @03:44AM (#6893483)

hey wiresurfer!

Thanks for your input, it's much appreciated. I am very interested in getting this part of tyto working. Do you think personally that dropbox is the best option for this feature? or do you think maybe offering skydrive, google drive and dropbox would be better? I also need to think about how this would be tackled from a UI perspective too to be honest so any opinion you may have on that would be much appreciated too.

Thanks again for the input! feedback has been great!

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Re:Show HN: tyto by codez on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @08:33AM (#6887517)

hey untothebreach!

Yeah export actually sounds much more fitting and the correct wording.

localStorage is certainly something I am going to be looking into to add to this. Another poster had suggested the available save APIs from say google drive, what do you think of that approach?

Thanks again for the feedback!

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Re:Show HN: tyto by untothebreach on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @08:36AM (#6887525)

I like the idea of Google drive...it would also help solve the problem of Accounts if a user could sync their data through their GDrive or Dropbox or something...

Anyway, I have forked the repo. Can't work on it now (at work) but I will try to play around with it this week and might be sending you a pull request or two.

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Re:Show HN: tyto by smarx on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:56PM (#6891095)

You might consider Dropbox, since the Datastore API seems perfect for the persistence (and live syncing) of data. Try the sample task-list app in a couple tabs: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/182037406/js-datastore-a...

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Re:Show HN: tyto by codez on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @05:43PM (#6891408)

hey smarx!

Thanks for the input, it's much appreciated. This area of improvement for tyto is something that I'm really itching to get working. Will definitely check out the link.

Thanks again for this!

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Re:Show HN: tyto by codez on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:18PM (#6888921)

Yeah I do like the idea, to me it is better than having some database for it or the likes. Going to compile an issue list of what's come up in the feedback and start looking into making those changes.

Thanks again for your feedback!

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