[HN Gopher] WeekToDo - Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
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WeekToDo - Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
Author : evo_9
Score : 154 points
Date : 2022-04-10 17:17 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| klabb3 wrote:
| What application bundler is this using? Assuming electron, but
| the github repo only contains assets and translation so it's hard
| to tell.
| raidel94 wrote:
| I was looking at the repository and in the tags it says
| electron.
| sgt wrote:
| Exactly what I wanted to know. There's no way I want to run
| another heavy weight Electron app.
| davchana wrote:
| Just an observation. The initial prompt (theme, settings) has
| Previous & Next buttons, but on last prompt titled All Ready, the
| buttons are Next, ready. It should be Previous Ready.
| fny wrote:
| What ever happened to pencil and paper?
| shabier wrote:
| I'm currently using a notebook, but I find it very limiting in
| the amount of information you can write down. It becomes rather
| difficult to maintain structure or add text later on. Pen and
| paper works best for quick, abstract notes in my experience.
| civilized wrote:
| I'll quickly plug my current to do solution: a pinned Google Keep
| note with a daily reminder that's pushed to my devices at 7am.
|
| I already use Keep for my grocery list and other things, so this
| way I don't need Yet Another App. It's on all my devices, it's
| got lists and checkboxes and reminders, and the UI is simple and
| responsive (which tbh wasn't always true, Keep speed and
| stability sucked for a long time but it's rock solid now).
|
| Interested to hear how this app might compare to my baseline
| solution.
|
| Also, what's this business about scheduling priorities being
| better than prioritizing your schedule? Personally I mostly just
| do things in order of priority and the timing is flexible. I'm
| not sure I would benefit from telling myself to do X at Y time.
| 1ste wrote:
| For me, adding items/tasks to time bound columns/lists does not
| work for me. Sometimes I have inspiration to clear my list and
| sometimes I do not.
|
| I made https://easylists.app to solve my own problem. I want to
| make lists fast and essentially to treat them as throw away (just
| like pen and paper). Sometimes I have a "today" list. Sometimes I
| have a "Top 3" list. I change it up all the time.
| garrett_makes wrote:
| Not exactly the same but similarly I made
| https://quicktodos.com for my wife and I to quickly share lists
| with real-time updating for things like going to the store or a
| daily task list.
|
| Funny how so many of these exist with slightly different takes
| on the problem!
| jeffkeen wrote:
| I hate to be that guy, but this looks exactly like
| https://teuxdeux.com/, a service made by Tina Roth Eisenberg
| (https://www.swiss-miss.com/) which has been around for a long
| long time.
|
| More than one product can exist in a space (and todo lists are a
| dime a dozen) and maybe this was a completely original idea and
| GMTA, but wow it sure looks like a note for note copy
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| thex10 wrote:
| I came here to say the same thing!
|
| Frankly it's a great concept and I might use it myself.
| weego wrote:
| And both look exactly like the A4 tear-out paper planners my
| partner has used for years. They're both digital iterations of
| a well trodden path
| jimmydddd wrote:
| A benefit of teuxdeux is that they charge $2 a month with the
| intention of putting the funds to maintaining the site and not
| having to sell the company.
| shaolinspirit wrote:
| I swear, teuxdeux is the most laconic and functional planner
| I've ever tried and it looks stunning. I'm so happy I found
| this comment, thanks @jeffkeen
| marban wrote:
| IIRC Julius Caesar's or the Egyptian's take on the calendar
| have been around longer than Swissmiss' app.
| jstummbillig wrote:
| It's a very simple weekly planer. There is going to be columns
| with weekdays and in those list items. There are a lot more
| than these two apps in this space. I personally enjoy
| https://tweek.so/
|
| The privacy and locally hosted angle seems like plenty of
| differentiation.
|
| Other than that I'd have to squint very, very hard to make it
| look "exactly" like TeuxDeux (which I find a lot less
| appealing, visually)
| wjdp wrote:
| Another user of tweek here, loving the competition in the
| space though! The fact this can run offline without an
| account is great.
| _ttg wrote:
| I spend ~85% of my time inside Chrome such that the only possible
| tool that could work for me is a Chrome extension. I currently
| use https://prodtodolist.com/ for general reminders but it's too
| barebones and something like this implemented as a ~minimalist~
| Chrome extension could be very handy.
| forbiddenvoid wrote:
| Honestly, my realization that I spend so much of my time inside
| Chrome is the exact reason I have started looking for native
| apps instead of SaaS.
|
| Chrome has become the problem for me more than anything,
| because as much they want to be the OS of the web - they're
| pretty terrible at it.
| shabier wrote:
| I agree with you and same here; I've moved my entire workflow
| to the browser. From Figma to my entire dev environment, it's
| all in the browser and Google handles everything else from
| accounts to preferences.
|
| While that enables me to do most of my work on a low-
| performance tablet, it introduces a bigger (chrome) issue;
| latency. I've noticed that most input websites (Notion,
| Google Docs, etc.) have an input latency whereas native apps
| don't.
| wjdp wrote:
| Just installed it to play around. Really nice to have a purely
| offline app in this space.
|
| What did surprise me is the unskippable 'splash screen' with the
| sponsor message before the app is usable (several seconds), this
| would really annoy me if there's no way to get rid of it.
| raidel94 wrote:
| I really like the app. To be honest the sponsor message didn't
| bother me that much, but it's real that it's there for several
| seconds. Is it intentional or is it loading the app?
| 7839284023 wrote:
| I'd love there to be an AppImage, Flatpak and / or an AUR version
| for Arch users...
| raidel94 wrote:
| can't you install it from Snap on Arch?
| rockzom wrote:
| Nice work. This isn't your fault, but it's inspiring a tangent.
|
| It's so strange, but I hate being so spoiled for choice.
|
| The main thing I miss about software from 20 years ago is that
| there were rarely more than two or three answers to the "which
| software should I use?" question. By today's standards, the tools
| we had were subpar. But it was easier to tell the best of the
| "worst" from the worst of the best.
|
| I recall it being more of an issue with file size, stability, and
| RAM usage. The question of "does this have everything I need?"
| didn't often occur to us, because that seemed like a ludicrous
| proposition in a "hey, this thing is less than a meg to
| download!" environment.
|
| These days, without a substantial amount of (sometimes dubious at
| best) preliminary research, you don't get to find out if
| something meets your needs until you have invested enough time to
| feel somewhat trapped in the new ecosystem.
|
| Ultimately, I'm not saying things used to be better. The tools we
| have now are miraculous. It's just for those of us who got to
| experience web search before Google and web search after
| Google...we will always be searching for that next hit of finding
| a tool that is so dramatically and obviously better than its
| predecessors.
| gregmac wrote:
| While I agree part of that was being that there were fewer
| options, there's also just more complexity these days.
|
| I consider things like:
|
| * Does this synchronize to other devices?
|
| * Does this support the device(s)/OS(es) I want to use it on?
|
| * Does this integrate to other applications I use?
|
| * Is this likely to contain malware, or could it in the future?
|
| * Does it require me running my own infrastructure, or can I
| pay someone else?
|
| * Am I comfortable with the extent I'll be locked into this
| ecosystem, if any?
|
| * Is it a worthwhile cost to me? Is the price likely to
| radically change in the future (after I'm locked in)?
|
| * If free, why? (Am I the product? Are there or will there be
| ads?)
|
| * If open source, is it likely to stay that way? Is there a
| community around it? Am I capable of maintaining this if I need
| to?
|
| * What new security threats does this open me up to?
|
| Granted, I don't always care about all of these (sometimes
| depending on answers to others), but it's a way bigger list
| than I'd have had 20 years ago.
| soneca wrote:
| Tangential ask HN: what is a good Linux desktop to do app that
| supports monthly recurring tasks (I have some accounting stuff
| that I need to remember to do every month). I'll use for daily
| adhoc tasks too, but any app (or pencil and paper) can handle
| them.
| majikandy wrote:
| I have exactly this issue too. And I still procrastinate and
| don't do them and sometimes get fines. I need something that
| prevents me using my phone or computer until it is done. Which
| probably means I'd just pretend it is and fake tick it off.
| hcal wrote:
| I keep going back to the todoist app. It works OK but there is
| something about it it doesn't click with me. Maybe there's a
| little too much white space in the design and it looks like a
| webpage instead of an app that fits into the desktop.
|
| I also really like elementary planner, but its sync feature
| doesn't work perfectly with Todoist ... which is more or less
| required for me because I need my todo list on my Phone. It is
| going through a major revision right now so I'm hopeful that it
| gets even better.
|
| Both support recurring monthly reminders. If I were you, I
| would try elementary's planner first. It was designed for
| elementary distro desktop, but it works just fine in gnome
| ei8ths wrote:
| its the empty space and how when you click on a task to edit
| it makes a modal pop out. I would prefer a slide in on the
| right side how wunderlist does it. I am currently trying out
| remember the milk, it just lacks some things todoist does
| well.
| shireboy wrote:
| This is close to something I'd use/need. I built something
| similar for my wife and I to do weekly schedules for our kids. It
| has chores, school work, daily routine stuff, etc. It currently
| uses Trello and some custom API code. To replace that, I'd need:
|
| * Easily multi-calendar. My wife or I go in, enter things for
| each of the kids' schedules. So ideally a drop-down or something
| with each of the calendars.
|
| * Printable with the entire week on a single landscape page
| neatly.
|
| I've thought about building out my own not using Trello, and
| still might.
| pen2l wrote:
| With respect, why is the /privacy/ aspect so important in a
| planner app that you've chosen to market it as an important
| feature? I actually want my planner to be public! Makes the
| appointments/meeting plans process simpler.
|
| Also, while I'm not a big fan of integrating every other thing
| into gmail, I actually rather like that recent updates in gmail
| which have calendar/planner on the side, I think they've got the
| right idea. Something like a planner/calendar I _want_ to be
| ubiquitous and visible all the time in whatever UI I'm in.
| raidel94 wrote:
| This is a really good point. To be honest in my case I don't
| like when I write something in Google calendar and after that I
| have 20 ads about that. Aside from that, being able to have my
| calendar public is very useful.
| UberFly wrote:
| Trying this out in a sandbox now and I really like it. I think
| I'll give this a go for a while. I wish it had a few more options
| though like being able to send it to the tray.
| bilater wrote:
| Nice - I did something similar with The Daily Mini-Journal
| (focusing on the daily tasks):
| https://www.thedailyminijournal.xyz/
| qwertox wrote:
| I disabled update check but it still wants to connect to the
| internet after it has been open for a while. Why does it want to
| do that?
|
| For those who are looking for the code:
| https://github.com/Zuntek/WeekToDoWeb
| aditsawant wrote:
| I love the minimalist UI and the fact that I can set up tasks for
| specific dates in the future. Nice work.
| fredguth wrote:
| What is the stack?
| raidel94 wrote:
| I read in github repo it's Vue and electron.
| fredguth wrote:
| I couldn't find the link of the repo in the site. Thanks for
| checking.
| sodality2 wrote:
| No mobile version is a bummer :( I almost always want to add
| events on the go.
| tillcarlos wrote:
| I like the concept. I plan my week in a similar manner with
| Notion: just add headlines for every week day.
|
| My issue is that the tasks often overflow and I rarely clean them
| up consistently.
|
| How does this app solve the problem of overwhelm?
| butwhywhyoh wrote:
| It's a minimalist planner app. Why would it solve (self-
| inflicted) problems for you?
| ildon wrote:
| You should try Akiflow.com! there's an awesome notion
| integration that makes it really efficient to plan notion pages
| Dicey84 wrote:
| Generally like how simple the app is, but as an Aussie, I find
| starting the week on a Sunday off-putting.
| pcurve wrote:
| When I open the web version of the calendar picker, it's
| showing Monday as the irst day of the week?
|
| Btw, I didn't realize vast majority of the world outside
| Americas have week starting on Monday.
| andag wrote:
| Anyone seen any open source versions with sync and a mobile app?
| I want one I can contribute to or hack to my own liking, but I
| need those basics.
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