DanielDe's comments

We don't have a story for this yet, but we will. And I strongly agree about JavaScript. In fact, an idea I really like is making that API available directly in the developer console, which we have available anyway because we're an Electron app!

> I won't use a to-do app without a start date.

We've gotten this request before and its on our list! I also really liked this feature of OmniFocus.

> I can't deep link directly to an item

This is coming soon too, I find myself wanting it all the time.

> I can't legally use it without end-to-end encryption.

Totally understandable. Once again, this is on our list, and has been hotly requested.

I SUPER appreciate this feedback. Always valuable to hear about the blockers, and you can bet I'll follow up with you when we've addressed them all!

We do, however, store the data locally in a sqlite database (~/Library/Godspeed/godspeed-db.sqlite). You shouldn't directly edit it or things won't sync properly, but you can use it to easily read your tasks if you'd like!

> 10. Focus mode

You're right, this is the one we don't support. But we've gotten requests for it, including from my cofounder, so its coming!

> 1. How painful will it be to import from Things?

I'm not sure if Things lets you export tasks, but if they do I'm more than happy to run a one-time custom import for you (or any other Things user). There's also the simpler way, which is copying a bunch of tasks to your clipboard and hitting ⌘+Shift+V in Godspeed to paste tasks from clipboard. It'll respect indentation and bullet characters.

> 2. What if the app goes away? I don't want to lose my stuff or switch again, it's a pain. How big is your company? Are you a going concern with real customers or is this a side project that will fall by the wayside?

Important question, thank you for asking it. First, if the app goes away, you're able to export your data from Godspeed. Currently it exports as JSON, but we're going to add other export formats in the future (as well as attachment exporting, which we don't currently support - though all your attachments are stored in a particular folder in ~/Library).

We're small right now, just a few people. But this app is pretty cheap to run and we use it every day (I don't want to brag, but I'm currently at the top of the charts for # of todos with 22,000 :p). So for what its worth, we intend to be around for a long time.

Thanks so much for the feedback and for checking it out! Happy to answer more questions, either here or [email protected]

I'm pretty serious about keeping my hands on my keyboard, and I wanted an app that wouldn't let me down by leaving out a hotkey for some tiny thing or another.

It's also got the best date picker I've ever used, which has become my favorite feature.

https://godspeedapp.com/

Godspeed is a todo app that's fast and 100% keyboard driven. I'd say it's about 3/4 baked. I use it every day, but I haven't quite gotten it over the line to a 1.0 with a payment page and all that.

So while in theory I like the idea of this meritocratic minimum bar granting special privileges (I liked it enough to join Triplebyte!), in practice we seemed to be fighting an uphill battle with all but a few candidates each month.

On the other hand, I have wasted a lot of time in conversations with recruiters only to be let down at the end by mismatched expectations. I'm interested to see if this new approach can make a meaningful difference in that problem.

My primary association with the word "fantastic" is simply "great" or "very good", as in "you did a fantastic job!". It's this meaning of the word that I found oddly disconnected from the word "imaginary". How do you get from something meaning "not real" to something meaning "very good"?

But the word "unreal" helped me make the leap, since that's a word I would use to describe something I thought was "very cool" or "well done".

> Benches were used as makeshift desks or exchange counters during the Renaissance by Florentine bankers

And you can save macros for later use or just create a one-off "Scratch" macro as described here [2].

[1] https://www.keysmith.app/ [2] https://www.keysmith.app/guides/creating-and-running-macros

But some other points still stand, like how Firefox got back to us quickly about the "delay", and how they showed our position in a queue. Google, on the other hand, was worse than just opaque about the process.

Why were we worried about Mozilla? Because things were so bad with Google that we figured something had to go wrong with Mozilla. So we put our psychological guard up just in case.

For what it's worth, Firefox asks for an unminified source bundle during the submission process (including for all updates), and Chrome does not. This doesn't mean that anyone over at Mozilla is actually looking through that source, but it's an interesting difference.

Keysmith comes with a Chrome and Firefox extension that make it better about working with the web. If you're using that extension, Keysmith will be smart about waiting in a few ways:

First, it'll wait for page loads if you're navigating between pages.

Second, it identifies elements you click on instead of just clicking at coordinates. So if you click on a Submit button, Keysmith won't try to click until it actually sees that Submit button there.

And finally, Keysmith is often able to identify when clicking on some button caused some other view to appear, so it knows to wait for that the next time when you're running the macro. This is just based on some heuristics, so it won't always work, but I'd recommend giving it a shot for your use case!

Would love to hear what you think