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by cafemachiavelli 811 days ago
A todo app for recurring personal projects. I found that breaking projects down into simple tasks really helps with my procrastination, but existing apps don't make that process too easy and quickly get cluttered.

My prototype lets me create project templates (that can contain other projects) and I can instantiate an arbitrary amount of them. Triggers can be a time ("every quarter") or some logical threshold (e.g. failing three workouts puts a "review fitness plan" action on my schedule).

It's my first real coding project and almost certainly too big, but it's been very fun to use so far and I already have ~50% of my ADHD social circle interested in the alpha.

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This sounds like it would be useful to me at work. The types of projects I have to manage are often dependent on other tasks and shifting timelines, so a lot of the existing project management software I have tried feels "close but not quite."

Will you be releasing this for public consumption?

I hope to and I'll probably ask on HN for volunteers once I have a stable-ish alpha ready. Might take a while, though; grad school owns my life for now.

I'm a bit doubtful that it'll handle professional-scale project mgmt from the go - the early vision is to help other ADHD folks like me build tiered todo lists - but it'd certainly be a nice target to aim for.

If you'd like to field a few questions or get an early invite, feel free to ping me at gnfxf@rap0.pbz (rot13).