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ioddly | 6 years ago

I'm building it for myself, since I don't think anything will do exactly what I want it to. I wrote https://github.com/upvalue/meditations for this, but it's not nearly as powerful as I'd like and after thinking about this for a long time, I have a pretty solid idea of what I want to do for the next rewrite.

I expect to handle like 80% of what I want and the rest will just have to be bespoke code and other applications (e.g. I don't expect to handle finances -- I'll continue using YNAB but import from it using its API to display financial info in the same place as everything else).

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WnZ39p0Dgydaz1|6 years ago

The devil is in the details. I've been working on something similar (looks very different, but similar goals), and I am on my 4th re-write :)

I've worked on some very complex software projects, but creating a simple task/habit tracker that is actually useful has been more difficult than I expected.

ioddly|6 years ago

Yep, I think this is the fifth? I've lost track honestly. I do use it daily, but I know I can do a lot better. The next one probably will not have any noticeable Trello/kanban heritage.

I will say for those working on their own, I started to make breakthroughs on this when I stopped worrying about what other people might want for the eventual open-sourcing or SaaS and just made exactly what I wanted to.