How many checklist 'apps' have AI in them? That you couldn't find one without it? Or is it just a marketing thing now to say "no-AI" to bank on the anti-AI movement in tech?
You'd be surprised how many perfectly good companies are diluting their products with irrelevant AI features.
When you're in an empty block in Notion the prompt puts "press space for AI" *before* "/ for commands". Totally blatant disregard for the actual useful features of the app in favor of hyping up their AI stuff.
You can email support to get this disabled. Apparently only the business version has a toggle to do it yourself. Regardless I'm much happier having disabled it now
The programmers that has been around for a while sooner or later starts to notice a pattern.
I remember some salesperson asking if we shouldn't start using XML (or some other thing he had heard, think it was XML). Not sure where he heard it but it made absolutely no sence whatsoever. We were already using XML in the backend talking to others backend services but I was trying my best to get away from it... But there was no reason he would even know what XML is. He hardly knew how to use a computer to browse the web at the time.
Whatever is popular at the moment has to be used or you aren't hip and not following the times.
We had a consultant try and sell us XML databases as something we had to start working on at once.
When I asked them what the advantage was, and how it dealt with a few common circumstances they basically stuttered to a stop. It was very dissapointing.
You're posting it here, presumably so people can use it.. yet already advertising that you'll shut it down as soon as something else that fits your needs comes along? What is the point of this if it can't even be relied upon?
I like it. It's simple. Shareable. But it's focused on shopping lists. I would use for shopping but there is some checklists I don't need that. Like my "Surf backpack list" it's just so I can check the items while i put in the backpack.
but web based means you can share the URL with anyone on any platform? or am I missing something? you can share reminders app lists, I don't think, and definitely not with android/windows users. https://lalacheck.fly.dev/c/0192f4b8-a7cc-7b40-89c4-454eaa83...
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.
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.
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.
Free with Office 365 / Microsoft account. Decent desktop & mobile apps too and integration into Outlook/Teams. API available via the Microsoft Graph and integration with PowerAutomate if you want IFTTT/Zapier-like functionality.
All multi-device/synced TODO lists have authentication to keep it private. That's half the utility. Add an item when on your laptop or iPad then when you need it outside you pull out your phone.
TickTick also has markdown notes and a calendar. I use the notes probably as much as lists, which fit desktop usecase better. Lists could be fine if it was mobile only but still annoying.
I highly doubt that. It's just they are the type of apps no one knows about because a developer will throw a TODO app together over a weekend then not support, market it, or abandon the server after a couple years. As I personally experienced at least twice over the years.
If you ask GPT they recommend these that fit the criteria (among quite a few others):
- https://2doli.st/ follows the same principles. but as I said before, state in the URL does not work for me. Every update changes the URL.
- https://moartodo.com/ is local. Can't be shared.
- https://flask.io/ I like it. That's the spirit.
If it does that's recent, I used it for ages before creating an account. I did a while ago, for some features that needed it (a joint list with my wife, mainly) but it wasn't mandatory, and still free.
I was in a similar situation like you. Nothing seemed to fit and I wrote one myself without a login.
Then I noticed, that it would be nice if my wife had access, too, but that required at least multiple lists.
Then I noticed, that it would be better, if there were lists for her, lists for me and also shared ones (like grocery), but that required some kind of authentication.
I chose QR-Codes / login tokens to solve this and it works pretty good. Seems like it has no login (due to locally stored tokens), but it can at least identify a user.
So, I still think my list[1] is better than others for MY personal purpose, but it is still very incomplete. Maybe it fulfils your needs...?!
I like the QRCode idea. For lalacheck if the list is private I don't share, if the list is to someone I share it. But makes sense the collection of lists or tasks.
It would be fantastic to add two simple features: 1) task groups (for example, a project) and 2) drag-and-drop reordering of tasks. Then it would be the only task manager one would need.
I'm pretty sure this is for simple sharing of probably very ephemeral lists like a shopping list, vacation list, etc. If you got the link, you got the list. I don't think this is meant to replace reminders/tasks apps on android or iPhone
That's a good point, I never fully learned Notes. I just like using markdown writing longform stuff and the simplicity of a dedicated todo interface with shortcuts to quickly add them w/ dates etc.
I gave up on finding a suitable app and just use a jupyter instance on my local server. Every task is a cell and you just delete it when it's finished.
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.
But this app is for other purposes. Me and my wife add house stuff to a shopping list. We don't want an installed app. Or even login before using a simple list.
Idea:
- Local data so I can access my CL without network.
- Templates. Start CL from predefined template.
- History. Which templates completed when.
- Hierarchical items.
- Share or export/import.
- Logic engine. Some items might not be relevant in some scenarios.
- I like the local first approach. I was already thinking in making all changes local, then syncing after.
- I also like the template. I have a checklist that I reuse everyday. Maybe a reset button (to uncheck all items) simply solve this. But the template or gallery is cool.
- Hierarchical items or sections would be nice.
- Share is simple, just give the link to someone. What import or export formats are you thinking?
I’m not sure why it has to do any requests at all. One would think you could make a todo app with some html, tiny amount of js to store it in local storage.
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