Ask YC: Feedback on my Mac Leopard App

You have a lot of competition, but hey, that's not always a bad thing!<p>The website looks very neat and clear, but you need to do a better job of conveying why ActionGear is better than the other options out there, from Things to OmniFocus to other GTD implementations. At the moment it's not clear.

I think its really nice, thanks. I'll continue to test it and compare it with Check Off, which I use now.<p>A few suggestions: 1. Really crank out the keyboard shortcuts. Things like Delete on a group would be good. 2. Small thing--when you create a Group, go ahead and make it editable so that I can just start typing its name. 3. Support colored Groups, tasks.

I like it. I'm continually trying out apps for this purpose but inevitably end up using an editor under Terminal.<p>(Pretend each hyphen starts a new bullet point)<p>Problems: - The cold start is a bit weak on first run. What should I do next? A little tutorial would be good. - I wish I could create an item without mousing to edit the description. Is this possible?<p>Ideas: - Growl integration: Randomly pop up items that need to be done, sortof as a teaser. Perhaps bias towards older or stale items? - Dependancies?<p>Wild idea: - add a server component, via a simple REST api, with a simple PHP version. Let me make a specific project folder be shared with other people. The website can show a simple list of todos/completions ala twitter. (anything you can X, I can social X. sorry.)

It looks good. I currently use Things (<a href="http://www.culturedcode.com/things/" rel="nofollow">http://www.culturedcode.com/things/</a>) for a similar purpose, but good global keyboard shortcuts might make me switch.

Link:<p><a href="http://gearsquare.com/actiongear/" rel="nofollow">http://gearsquare.com/actiongear/</a><p><a href="http://gearsquare.com/media/vid/actiongear.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://gearsquare.com/media/vid/actiongear.mp4</a> &#60;-- this is just a 73 sec video demo I put together in iMovie, it's a 6.4MB download

It seems odd to me that this isn't coupled with a network host of some kind. Organizing my tasks is rarely the hard part. It's remembering them from anywhere that proves tricky.<p>Perhaps instead of a network host, something better integrated with an iPhone would be good..?

At first sight it's nice, simple and needs a bit of polishing. It's a bit annoying to not being able to delete groups.<p>I know that you want the app to appear when you need it, but I personally would like it to stay as a normal app after I unhide it and cmd+tab on it.

I'm having a problem..<p>I assiagned a hot key. Then I didn't restart the computer yet.<p>Later, I was in the safari search bar, and whenever I hit 'a' it would toggle the program. I had to close the program to be able to hit 'a' again.

Hugh, your app looks promising. I will try it out for a week and see how it fits into my workflow.<p>One side question: what is the terminal icon in your menubar? I must have that app (whatever it is).

Looks really cool :) I'm not in front of my mac right now, but looks promising, will definitely try out.<p>One thing about the website though, please please resize your screenshots into thumbnails!

If you click "Show ActionGear" and then bring another window to the foreground, the menu says "Hide ActionGear", but clicking the item brings the window to the foreground.

Somehow your #pp h#s t#ken over my keybo#rd.<p>Every time I try #nd type #n "#" (# being pronounced "eh"), your #pp comes to the foreground. It is very #nnoying.

Looks pretty slick. I really like the minimal, "lurking in the shadows" sort of approach. Would integration with iCal be something feasible/desired?

Website Feedback :)<p>1. Alter typography, add a decent line height (maybe 1.6em?) 2. Background image is yeck. You'd be better off with a lighter grey than the current image. 3. Headings would look better without small-caps<p>Other than that, seams good! Still testing the app atm.

Seeing as its a Mac app, you might not care, but the site doesn't look very good on Windows XP + IE7 (I'm using someone else's computer). The font(s) look kind of 9-pin dot matrix, and the screen shots are not very clear (it's hard to see what the text says in them).

I reviewed your app and also many of the other apps that people mentioned in the comments.<p><a href="http://blog.blakeperdue.com/2008/09/15/app-reviews-task-management/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.blakeperdue.com/2008/09/15/app-reviews-task-mana...</a>

i would say add a publish a group feature would be nice. i currently do this with remember the milk so my boss can keep tabs on what i'm doing.