Thank you for posting this! I just spent a very enjoyable hour there and I’m sad others won’t be able to do the same in future.
They appear to work with many institutions in a consultancy capacity so I hope that this will still continue in future even though the museum itself has to close.
I fully agree with the value of breaking down complex projects into smaller chunks tasks but I’m not sure it needs a chatGPT wrapper.
Doing it yourself using an app like https://tatask.com will be much more beneficial. You need to know how and why different parts of a project fit together to gain mastery of it. I think that’s lost if AI makes those connections for you.
I built Tatask.com for this! I want to have easy visibility over everything but quickly drill down into specifics so it uses a tree structure for tasks.
You can break down any project into smaller and smaller sections to whatever degree you like and it makes it super easy to visualise everything and make progress.
Wow, that's incredible to hear, what a major turnaround! As someone who has close people suffering from alcoholism, I can understand how tough it can be to encourage change.
It is cool that you're planning on telling the story in churches despite not being religious yourself. I think that's a great place to reach people and I really hope that your message gets across to lots of people in need.
You've definitely made a good impact this year, huge respect.
That was not your mistake, I only added it after reading your initial comment!
Thanks for the detailed response, I understand what you mean by not wanting to give your credit card info out. I used to not have that requirement and then was encouraged to do so by someone I respect in business. The logic was that it is a very saturated market and people are prone to trying lots of options without paying them much attention whereas if you've given over your CC details you're more likely to use the trial period fully and therefore get benefits from the app.
I might switch to freemium at some point soon and see how that works for people. Given it's a side project I'm not sure why I'm so concerned about maximising revenue as that's not really the goal!
Thanks for the advice, I hope that you end up using Tatask from here on out. Also if you have an iPhone, the app is in review currently and should be released very soon.
I don’t need it for most personal things like shopping lists etc. but when I do it’s invaluable. I also don’t understand how people work like that!
Dependencies is an interesting idea that i’ve thought about a little bit. From my own experience i’ve found that a tree naturally models this quite well as every task depends on its subtasks, but i can see for more complex workflows that wouldn't work perfectly.
I've been testing it out recently and it's been quite successful but I am about to change that to a soft paywall. I'm thinking 7 days with an occasional nagging paywall and then you get an extra 30 days free if you add credit card details.
Like every programmer before me, I created a to-do list app of course! However, as a programmer, I prefer trees to lists so I made a to-do tree app. I have been using it religiously every day since to manage all aspects of my life in a way that I couldn't previously with tools like Wunderlist (RIP) or didn't have the time to make work in this way like Notion.
Shockingly there aren't many other options out there for tree-based to-dos so when I posted it to my personal Twitter some people really liked it and started paying for it which turned my weekend project into more of a full-time side project.
As of today, I've been working on it for almost a year on and off and in fact yesterday I submitted my first iOS app to the app store for approval (a quick rejection but easily solvable!).
I think everyone should build their own to-do list app not least because it encourages you to actually use a to-do list app but also because I've learned so many interesting lessons from it along the way. Through this project, I've learned Svelte, iOS development with SwiftUI, lots of things about PWAs, and much more that is not easy to convey about engineering solutions.
Tatask is an infinitely nestable task management system designed to help break down complex projects into simple, actionable steps.
Task lists don't convey enough information but task trees help with hierarchy and compartmentalisation.
It's still an early stages project as it's only on the web at the moment, but I'm building a native iOS app now and there are many more improvements to come.
It works well as a progressive web app and on mobile browser but it's not truly native yet so I'm building native versions to give the best UX possible. Given that Task management is all about UX it's an important step to take even if Tatask is mostly designed to be used on a laptop.
That's what I used to do too. It works great but I wrapped it up in an app for myself so that I could include scheduling, favouriting to plan my day and some other UX enhancements over a .txt file.
The innovation is modelling projects as a tree that can be broken down into smaller chunks. You can nest as deeply as you like and therefore break down even the most complex ideas into actionable steps.
This article encompasses lots of the reasons why I dislike traditional todo apps as well.
Unlike the author I did end up creating my own solution which solves a lot of the problems suggested by using a tree structure instead of a list structure. I have found it works better for my productivity than any other app as it encourages breaking tasks down into smaller chunks which are then easy to complete and build momentum as OP suggests.
Lots of people on the Svelte subreddit were interested in how I implemented reactive list filtering using dynamic data after I posted a video demo. I wrote a tutorial on it and thought some HN readers may find it interesting too.
Project Description: Infinitely nestable task management - break complex projects down into simple steps/tasks.
Looking for feedback on UX, landing page and testing that features work as expected + are obviously available. Let me know if it's easy to create tasks, prioritise, schedule and rearrange tasks.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No (recently back from living in Berlin and want stability)
Technologies: TypeScript/Javascript, Svelte(kit), Python, SwiftUI, Kotlin, CapacitorJS, Postgresql, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Kafka, Pytorch, Tensorflow
Resume/CV: https://maxgirkins.com/cv.pdf
email: https://maxgirkins.com/contact