[sophacles]

Sweet, it's completely useless! I can't dump a task from command line or vim. Can't script it to pull things to the calendar automatically. Can't send an email to put a task directly into it. Can't dump tasks to a text todo list to put at the top of the code or document im writing to remember what I need as I write.

Will not use. And, even if those features show up, won't consider due to lack basic thought in initial design.

I've said before and I'll say it again: todo's are a functionality that are only useful when broadly accessible from many different apps and contexts. Your app (for any your) is mostly useless to me.

Edit: I don't get all the hate this post is receiving. Is it because I didn't wrap it in sugar? Is it because I listed the things I would actually consider paying for? Or is it just because I'm disagreeing with some startup and that's against the local religion?

[antiterra]

First, saying it's completely useless is complete hyperbole. You can enter to do items through an application or web interface. That is a use. It may not be a novel use or a use that interests you in any way, but it's still a use. It's a disappointing fact, but the truth is that command line integration, scripting or a public API are not particularly mainstream features in an app.

Next, it would seem pretty fanatical to say "this app does everything I want to, but because the features weren't there in the first version, I refuse to use it." If the new functionality is well-integrated and not simply shoe-horned in, would does the first version of the product have any relevance at all?

[sophacles]

Well a team that decides to build a clone of something that exists hundreds of times over, without thinking to even mention that more features are on the way, probably doesn't have the ability properly add features in the future. They show a complete lack of thought towards innovation or product usefulness, only the ability to poorly copy something. Therefore I'm not going to waste my time following them, and instead give attention to one of the other 100 todo apps that shows the potential for actually becoming useful to me.

[pmelendez]

IMHO I think this phrase is part of the reason behind downvotes "Sweet, it's completely useless!" It is a strong statement and it is probably subjective. What it is useless for you might not be for someone else. You did fixed after... " is mostly useless to me." but I think was too late.

"I don't get all the hate this post is receiving. ". The post itself feels like a lot of hatred behind him. Maybe it is getting the same medicine?

[sophacles]

I should probably clarify that last bit then: I still think cheddar is useless, because it doesn't provide the functionalities I declare. I meant, that in a hypothetical todo app that has those features, the official released app is still mostly useless to me.

[fluidcruft]

Do you know of something that does this... I'd like to try it? Is this something org-mode can do (probably not since the vim statement, but just wondering)?

[sophacles]

Unfortunately not that I've found. Apparently, despite the existence of many, many todo apps, not a single one is made by people who think, "we can innovate the market by going the tried and true 'make it easy for developers to build on' route".

[kylebrown]

You have a point, the service should come with an API.