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Show HN: Today – A task manager that resets at midnight, powered by localStorage (today.dakota.codes)
1 points by jackomelon 464 days ago
I had this random thought while coding late: what if a to-do list just wiped itself clean every night? So I built it for fun. Turns out, this odd constraint became surprisingly effective. With the deadline of midnight looming, I found myself focusing on the things I could act upon today.

Featureset: - Pure localStorage (no accounts or servers) - Kanban board for flexible organization - Built-in Pomodoro timer for focused work sessions - Ambient noise generator with various soundscapes - WebRTC for peer-to-peer board sharing between devices - Works offline as a PWA

No backend, no tracking, no complicated roadmap - just a simple tool that started as a joke but became genuinely useful for daily productivity.

Would love to hear if anyone else finds the "fresh slate daily" approach as oddly motivating as I do.
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codingdave 464 days ago
I'd be more interested in the opposite - let me define a task list that shows up again every day, regardless of what I did or did not get done the day before.

That could be used to list out my daily goals and chores and new habits I'm trying to form, and give me the dopamine hit of marking them all done every day.

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jackomelon 464 days ago
I've been thinking of building something like that - a routine task utility. Perhaps I can add it as a feature to Today. "Routine Mode vs Self-Destructing Tasks Mode"

Thank you for the idea, I may start working on that tonight!

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beardyw 464 days ago
Sounds like reinventing TickTick. "Recurring" can be a complex subject which it mostly gets right. Still can't do "every Easter"!
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jackomelon 464 days ago
I hadn't heard of TickTick, going to check it out. Super neat that Easter trips it up!
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pvg 464 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPO2nUYaoM
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jackomelon 464 days ago
amazing clip. Thanks for sharing!
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almosthere 464 days ago
Does it store the history at least? So you have a record. Neat idea!
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jackomelon 464 days ago
A task is deleted and removed the board once you X it out, and then the entire board's state is reset at the start of the next day :)

I could perhaps offer a choice in the settings if you want to disable the auto-reset in favor of historical tracking by day with export!

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