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Show HN: Tweek Calendar - A minimal weekly planner and to-do list
Author : nikkey80
Score : 133 points
Date : 2022-11-17 16:15 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| barbazoo wrote:
| This is beautiful, congrats!!!
| 28304283409234 wrote:
| Pet peeve regarding all calendars everywhere: why do you think I
| have less todo during the weekend? No parties? No shopping? No
| family reunions?
|
| Please make the saturday and sunday as large as the weekdays. <3
| iamdamian wrote:
| This looks amazing! Are you working on a privacy policy?
| lab14 wrote:
| Heh, this mirrors my current Workflowy setup.
| tcmb wrote:
| I really like it, and it's funny because I had just started using
| a very similar system a few weeks ago. I was using Trello with
| eight lists (Mon thru Sun and a 'backlog') as a sort of proof of
| concept.
|
| One 'feature' I was using myself was a 'rolling week': The
| leftmost column is always today [1]. At the end of the day, I'd
| make a point of clearing out all items that were not checked off:
| They either move to one of the upcoming days or back into the
| backlog. At first I thought I would want some automatic behavior,
| like always moving unchecked items to the next day, but it's
| actually become a useful end-of-day ritual for me to see what I
| did not do, whether it is still important and if and when I want
| to do it. Then, when everything out of 'today' is either checked
| off or moved elsewhere, the day moves to the end of the rolling
| week, so that on each day of the week I always have a visible
| window of seven days.
|
| Another feature I started using regularly was the 'copy'
| functionality that Trello has built in: it's just practical to be
| able to quickly duplicate items and in the process define into
| which day they should go.
|
| [1] Actually the second col from the left, because I had the
| backlog as the leftmost one
|
| Edit: I should clarify that I wasn't using this as a _calendar_
| but rather as a Todo app/list. I'm still using macOS' regular
| calendar app for everything that is more than 7 days out.
| revskill wrote:
| Thanks for the launch.
|
| This will be my idea for my new project.
| airstrike wrote:
| Love the idea but my data having to live on someone else's
| servers makes it an unfortunate non-starter for me
| dwlfrth wrote:
| Totally agree. The idea, design, UX, everything is awesome.
| What would make it even more awesome would be a way to run it
| on our own infra.
| [deleted]
| dsp_person wrote:
| Love seeing the live app come up first thing without needing to
| register, log in, etc.
| rayrag wrote:
| Weektodo is a similar app, it has web version and apps for all
| OS. And it's open source.
|
| https://weektodo.me/
|
| https://app.weektodo.me/
|
| https://github.com/manuelernestog/weektodo-web
| avtar wrote:
| From the repo's read me:
|
| "For now the WeekTodo it is a Freeware application and not open
| source."
| xrayarx wrote:
| Can confirm, not open source
| epsteinisntdead wrote:
| I'm kind of a privacy nut, but it's hard to take anyone
| seriously who says, "We're not open-sourcing this, but you
| can totally, 100% trust us."
| r3trohack3r wrote:
| This is an absolutely amazing onboarding experience. Drops you
| right into the product and you "get it" almost immediately. Then
| context pops up and describes what you just saw with the option
| to continue playing before signing up.
|
| Love the call to action in the sample too "remember to save
| :point_up:" - but that wording threw me off a bit. Why save and
| not "save by logging in"? Does saving not happen automatically
| after every change?
| TIPSIO wrote:
| Absolutely stellar. Will definitely give it a try. Great job and
| thanks for sharing
| tomschlick wrote:
| Nice! Seems like a beefed up version of https://teuxdeux.com/
| randomluck040 wrote:
| Seems like that, yeah. The thing that I'd need, which is what
| bugs me with teuxdeux as well, is an option to add some notes
| or more elaborate text on the entries. Sometimes it's just not
| enough to have a few words to describe what I want to do. Maybe
| it's not the purpose of the app and I'm looking for something
| else which is already there but my current method is calendar
| blocking.
| tonypham wrote:
| I've used Teuxdeux for a while and encountered the same
| problem. I've tried so many productivity apps and ended up
| building my own PM tool.
| azundo wrote:
| Looks like they advertise that as a feature of the premium
| version.
| s3r3nity wrote:
| Sorry, nope. This looks exactly like Teuxdeux, and even borrows
| some very similar product marketing imagery.
| (https://teuxdeux.com/)
|
| Also Weektodo: https://weektodo.me/
|
| There are so many hard & interesting problems out there -
| software & otherwise - and this space doesn't need yet another
| re-skin with one or two tweaks.
| bobbylarrybobby wrote:
| One or two tweeks*
| _def wrote:
| It let's me try it on my phone without forcing me to sign up
| for another potential throwaway account that will spam my
| inbox, so that's at least one thing that I already like more
| about it than it's competitors.
| galfarragem wrote:
| And the design is really refreshing. It looks like a native
| app in my iphone.
| iamben wrote:
| This feels unnecessarily harsh. So what if _you_ don 't think
| it's a 'hard and interesting' problem?
|
| Couldn't you have applauded the effort and offered some
| constructive criticism regarding your preference in look and
| feel?
|
| If everyone just bums everyone out it ends up taking monumental
| confidence to try and achieve anything. Be better.
| s3r3nity wrote:
| There's a balance being positive for effort vs giving
| everyone participation trophies. Sometimes tough but fair
| feedback is appropriate and needed.
|
| Let's not pretend that the vectors for "effort" and "impact"
| should be orthogonal.
| iamben wrote:
| "Kid - you'll never be an astronaut/actor/president/cure
| cancer. You might as well give up now."
| s3r3nity wrote:
| Lol THOSE are actually useful / interesting / hard
| problems worthwhile solving - or at least working
| through.
|
| We need more computational biologists solving protein
| folding problems or the like to cure humanity's greatest
| ills. NOT a todo app with a new sticker on it.
| _def wrote:
| To me your feedback doesn't seem fair and not thought out
| well though. Notes/Calendar/Todo apps will evolve forever,
| there is no one size fits all and there won't ever be.
| Snoozle wrote:
| Which is exactly why they are A waste of time. I have yet
| to meet a developer that doesn't have an idea for a
| notes/calendar/organizational tool. The point is that
| organization is such an individual problem that it always
| needs a custom solution and yet each solution will only
| be valuable to a handful of people.
| haliskerbas wrote:
| Same with the toothpaste aisle, pasta sauce aisle etc.
| Sometimes personal preferences are part of the value prop.
| yunwal wrote:
| But also at a certain point adding another choice that's
| barely different from the last one leads to decision fatigue
| and ends up propping up the status quo. If you asked me which
| bespoke calendar app was right for you I'd have no idea and
| probably just suggest gcal.
| s3r3nity wrote:
| Cool - doesn't mean everyone with a reskinned app gets a
| participation trophy.
|
| Sometimes people need to hear tough feedback...lest you
| become one of those people that quit their jobs and audition
| on American Idol or something.
| droobles wrote:
| That's pretty cool! Love the design.
| indiantinker wrote:
| Nice and clear design! All the best.
| flappyeagle wrote:
| Would pay if it had bidirectional google calendar sync. Right now
| it's only google calendar into tweek
|
| My CC is ready
| OriginalPenguin wrote:
| What did you write it in?
| sfaruque wrote:
| The web view looks great, with a "week planner" feel to it. I
| instantly got it and started adding some items to it.
|
| But with the mobile and Mac app (haven't tried the iPad app yet),
| it shows a "list type" view (not sure if that's the correct
| term).
|
| Are you considering adding a "week planner" view to at least the
| Mac app?
| imilk wrote:
| The name makes it sound like a calendar for methheads. Which
| would probably be very useful, but I'm sure that's not the
| intended audience.
| Promyvion wrote:
| This is a stunningly beautiful app! The thought and care put into
| the user experience really shows, and works particularly well for
| my brain.
|
| I'd love to see support for more of a week-agnostic format. That
| our weeks traditionally start on Monday or Sunday means nothing
| to me. If it's Friday or Saturday and I'm mapping out my next
| five days, I'm stuck with the jarring experience of having to
| navigate back and forth between two arbitrary groups of days.
|
| I'm imagining a layout option where of the 7 days, day 2 is
| always _today_ , perhaps with some sort of smooth-scroll snapping
| capability that lets me granularly travel forward or backward
| through days as needed.
| ghewgill wrote:
| Have a look at https://teuxdeux.com. It's similarly laconic as
| Tweek, and the default view is "now and the next few days".
| lawgimenez wrote:
| Will it sync to iCloud calendar?
| bevenky wrote:
| You may want to redo your video voiceover with
| https://wellsaidlabs.com/
| adlpz wrote:
| I don't see any pricing in their site. What's the average cost
| per word?
| [deleted]
| prafulmunikumar wrote:
| Found it here, https://help.wellsaidlabs.com/how-much-does-
| it-cost
|
| Starting at 49 USD per month.
| airstrike wrote:
| OK, color me impressed. I knew a few years back that this was
| going to be possible and easy a few years down the road, but
| didn't realize we were there yet. Amazing
| lawgimenez wrote:
| Would love to try premium like for 30 days though. Or 7 days.
| tonypham wrote:
| Tweek/Teuxdeux works great as a minimal weekly planner. If you
| want a more feature-rich Monthly/Weekly/Daily planner, check out
| https://upbase.io/
|
| I'm the founder of Upbase, and it was on Show HN just a few days
| ago.
| imwillofficial wrote:
| I love upbase, but I'd say it's bad form to go on somebody
| else's announcement to promote your own product, despite the
| fact that they both fill very different roles.
|
| Thoughts?
| tonypham wrote:
| Upbase is a PM tool and not a direct competitor of Tweek, so
| I think giving people more choices is not so bad. Anyway,
| shame on me for this promotion.
| KaoruAoiShiho wrote:
| IMO not bad form since it's useful for the average HN reader
| to have more choices. As a customer I want to see competition
| between vendors, that's always a good thing.
| Void_ wrote:
| Let the votes decide!
| bberenberg wrote:
| I currently use cron.app but I expect that will die since Notion
| acquired them. One feature you should consider adding to the
| premium plan is calendar blocking across calendar. That way if I
| add multiple calendars, and I am busy on one, it auto blocks that
| time on others. This is a surprisingly complex tech problem to
| solve, but if you can do it, that's a meaningful feature for
| power users of calendars.
|
| Best of luck with Tweek!
| superchink wrote:
| Does Cron have that feature?
| bberenberg wrote:
| https://cron.com/changelog/2022-04-11-event-blocking
| mmcclure wrote:
| Don't put that out in the universe! I also use Cron, and
| personally really enjoy it so I'd be really bummed if it
| totally died. I had hopes the acquisition would mean more
| investment in Cron, but it's pretty noticeably slowed in
| velocity recently. :(
| benhurmarcel wrote:
| If you don't complete a task today, does it automatically gets
| moved to tomorrow?
| bulldog13 wrote:
| The world can't have enough ToDo web apps !
| FredPret wrote:
| I tried upgrading four times with two credit cards. Now one of
| them is blocked.
| intull wrote:
| Love the design! Are there CSS libraries which offer a look and
| feel like Tweek? I've been wanting to adopt similar designs in
| some of my projects.
| jordanmorgan10 wrote:
| Hmmm, really cool idea - I could get behind it. But on iOS, the
| app does not feel native. The transition timing is off, some of
| the animations are super stiff - some tell tale signs.
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