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by clusmore 2950 days ago
I built a web app called Bucket for tracking todos, inspired by the technique described in this video[1] whereby you put tasks into buckets based on the time horizon for completion.

Your tasks are stored entirely in your browser, so there's no back-end, no risk of losing access, works offline, you can export any time, and you can share your tasks between devices using the Sync URL. You can use it here (for now, looks best on mobile): https://lusmo.re/bucket/

I built it because it was easy, it does exactly what I want, and I don't need to rely on some 3rd party to profitably monetise todo apps so that I can use it indefinitely.

[1] https://youtu.be/iNG1a--SIlk?t=28m48s

1 comments

That's very interesting. I like this approach. I've been using a sort of simplified Kanban for my own tasks, but I find this time-based sorting interesting.

Technically the only downside for me in this tool would be having to sync manually betwen devices, as I'm constantly jumping between managing the list on my phone and on my laptop.

I found that Trello works pretty well for my own needs, having automatic sync and offline functionality.

>Technically the only downside for me in this tool would be having to sync manually betwen devices, as I'm constantly jumping between managing the list on my phone and on my laptop.

Yeah, I can definitely agree that this is an annoyance if that's your workflow - personally I mostly stick to my phone. I might look into whether Chrome/Firefox tab syncing could do this for me, if I kept the hash fragment up-to-date. Feel free to raise any issues in the linked GitHub for requests.