Ask HN: review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer

I like the idea, but anything like this, at least for me, needs to be syncing to the web and have a web UI too. You don't necessarily need a mobile client, but a mobile optimized website for it is kind of a must have too.<p>But I agree that there's a need, though it is a crowded market.

todo list apps are incredibly hard to get right. I have found I don't like most of them, and I have resorted to using tadalist most of the time. So far I am liking yours though.<p>It's really clean and simple, which is great. I also like that you used Air, even if others disagree.<p>I wish I could see all tasks at once. It looks like just adding an "All" list would accomplish that.<p>I also wish I could select more than one list at once (with cmnd and/or shift) and see both of them merged together in the main pane.<p>Adding tags with the pound sign is great, and the auto completion is even better. I really like that.<p>I wish the tag section could include a "tagless" option, to show me all tasks that lack tags.<p>If I select more than one task, I wish clicking a checkbox would effectively click all their checkboxes.<p>It really needs to have an online counterpart though. This unfortunately is really essential. I need my todo lists at home, at work, on my phone, just about anywhere. If you had that, I think I would totally use your app.

It looks like you've already written the app. Most people won't install an app just to review it; however they will visit your site. You should have put the site together first and posted that. Then you'd have feedback before you started building it.

Using it! Love it so far, for the few minutes I've used. Perhaps this will replace my need for tadalist which I resort to every now and then when I have too much on my plate.<p>Would help to see numerical numbered list. I get a good kick personally knowing I have x things to get through.

I didn't like that I had to download Adobe AIR for downloading and installing your app. What speaks against making a .dmg file and allowing the user to copy your app wherever she/he likes?

Nice app, but I'm not switching from my current scheme of a .txt file for local todos and Google docs for stuff I need to share or get from afar.<p>I wonder what it would take? I often have a list or two going, but .txt is just so convenient. Why leave emacs at all?

As such I like it and it seems to be exactly the sort of thing I've been looking for, however there needs to be sync feature and a way for me to view and update my todo list from a browser. Add that and I'm really interested.

Offtopic: I thought that the market for to-do organizers is supersaturated at this points. Is it that there just aren't any good ones? What do you expect the marked for this thing to be?<p>Personally, I use a white board for lists of projects that need to be accomplished, and my e-mail inbox for the list of things that need to be accomplished soon. Not a perfect system, but at least I can glance at both quickly as I always have Thunderbird open and sit in front of my whiteboard.

I use Evernote for todo management. For me, the essential feature is, that the todo application is the same as the knowledge management (or notetaking) application.<p>For example, the todo might be "Fix the bug #1234". In Evernote, this will be the name of the note, and in the body of the note, I copy the bug description, and write any other stuff I discovered during my work. I found that the applications which only maintains the lists of todos are not useful for me.

A couple of things I would like: - Mark todos as recurring - Reminders/Alarms - I would prefer if we could add more to todo. Add todo, give it a title, then fill in the body. - A "Done" button rather than a checkbox - Give todo items a due date in addition to today tomorrow someday.<p>You say this is a minimalist app, but these are essential for me.

Great for a minimalist app, but I have found a bug already. I created one todo for today, then created another and immediately clicked the Move to Someday button. The Today todos all vanished except for one I had created earlier. Clicking on New Todo restored the lost items.

Good work man.<p>One suggestion: I think it would be nice if you could tag when a task is "done". At first it doesnt mean much but I can imagine 3-4 weeks into using this id have hundreds of tasks completed. It would be helpful to be able to see when stuff was completed.

Instead of for minimalists, why not just say "...for You." The minimalists know who they are, and those who aren't sure yet may not be ready to jump into all of the associations.

Anyone else here use Org-Mode (ala emacs?) Getting a text file sync'd is an rsync matter (but it does require 1 box with a public DNS name/static ip).

Like it so far. Air doesn't bother me, I guess I'm an Adobe whore. In a weird way I prefer it for simple tools like this.

This looks good, but I'm pretty happy with TaskPaper, which hits a very similar niche and doesn't require Air.

Logo design must be inspired by Hulu.

I like it, very clean and simple. The # tagging allows to make it flexible.

I installed it on Ubuntu and the menu/tool bar was missing.

one thing you might like to look into is having it talk with some of the todo websites out there, like remember the milk (one of the more popular ones)

Maybe I'm dumb, but I can't quite figure out what the "Review" label means. What does it mean?