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Show HN: I built a free tool for breaking down tasks into manageable subtasks

48 点作者 ultrasounder8 个月前
Hi HN! First time posting. I created a tool for my Autistic son who is in high school junior battling severe ADHD symptoms. His difficulties include; 1. Time blindness 2. Lack of executive functioning skills 3. Task initiation issues<p>These three were severely affecting his grades. We had a consultation with a Developmental Psychologist who prescribed Concerta that improves his ability to focus in class. In addition he also has the boilerplate ADHD accommodations(2X time on tests and quiet place to take the test). These collectively improved his test taking abilities. But, when it came to his completing his assignments and other submissions &quot;ontime&quot;, he is left to his devices.<p>I realized after observing him closely(with his consent :-)), that his real problem was that, the task at hand was overwhelming him. He didnt know how to go about piecing the various sub-tasks that went into completing that task at-hand. For example, for one of his literature class; he had to write a term paper on the book &quot;Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are dead&quot;. This was very over-whelming for him which prevented him from starting on-time.<p>I created www.voxtodo.com to help him; 1. Manage his workload - Break down his tasks into sub-tasks 2. Plan his work sessions- sign-in using google credentials and lets him load the tasks into his Google calendar 3. Track his progress - Setup alerts(custom alert frequency) to receive alerts on his Phone&#x2F;PC wherever he is working 4. Stay organized - He can close out the task within the app which then removes the task from calendar and removes the alerts. That gives him a big high knowing he completed a task from his todo-stack. 4. Track time spent- Each subtask has timers that he can start and stop. And there is a dashboard view where he can view metrics on which task he spent the most time on.<p>Here is a snap-shot of one of his working session; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;nf1FpkA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;nf1FpkA</a><p>I tried it on one of my own tasks, where I am trying to recreate the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models from scratch and it gave me these steps to follow through; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;nf1FpkA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;nf1FpkA</a><p>Tech Stack Flask with JINJA2 templates with Tailwind CSS for styling and SQLite database hosted on Pythonanywhere($5&#x2F;month hosting and love it) Google Auth for calendar access OpenAI API(GPT4o) for task breakdown<p>Would love for you to try the app and recommend it to others. Would it equally appreciate any bugs. i have tested in on all major browsers, but there might be some lurking bugs somewhere. If you have a specific feature request, i have a repo where I am collecting them. Here is the issues template; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ultrasounder&#x2F;Voxtodo-features&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;github&#x2F;ISSUE_TEMPLATE&#x2F;feature_request.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ultrasounder&#x2F;Voxtodo-features&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;g...</a><p>Cheers, Ananth

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poulpy1238 个月前
I just tested 2 very general questions (in french) and compared the results to the tool cited by the other comment, and I prefer the answers from yours, they are more precise. The other tool allows to iterate the process on each step so maybe it compensate.<p>The questions were too general to conclude on the effectiveness of the answers but I suspect anyway that just asking the question and reading several small steps may be enough to trigger the initiation of the task.<p>Anyway I&#x27;m bookmarking it :)
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MollyRealized8 个月前
FYI: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goblin.tools" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goblin.tools</a>
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ed_db8 个月前
Hi Ananth,<p>This looks very promising however every attempt at a demo ended with a server 500 error in the console. I also was put off by the warning from google that the site has permission to permanently delete all of my google calendars when signing up just to try the site. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;uoR0frO" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;uoR0frO</a>
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RadiozRadioz8 个月前
That video on the homepage sounds so uncanny and weird. Give it a watch and you&#x27;ll see what I mean. Was this produced with AI?
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650REDHAIR8 个月前
Looks great!<p>Excited to try it this week.<p>Is there a plan to monetize? I understand server costs are low now, but with any volume that could change.
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d1ss0nanz8 个月前
On signup it says „login with gmail“. „login with google“ would be more accurate, since workspace accounts also work.
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gowindone8 个月前
I love Voxtodo, and I&#x27;ve been following its journey for a while. I&#x27;m glad to see it&#x27;s come so far.
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ozfive8 个月前
This app doesn&#x27;t work at all. Signed up, entered a todo item and it errored out.
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geenkeuse8 个月前
Great work. Needful and made with love. Thank you.