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[โ€“] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wrote one many times over during my career that was amazingly effective, not just for myself but others, too. I can't figure out how to write it for the phone because I am a crummy programmer. I would love to have it again. It had one feature that I am unable to find on any other to-do list app.

[โ€“] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Zero or more prerequisite tasks. End to start dependencies in project management parlance.

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Me too! This and auto-populating a "do next" sublist are key features that no commercial software seems to have.

[โ€“] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In my last version I had a single list of tasks, and each had a list of "excuses" which were pointers to other tasks. I had filters for showing "all tasks", "not done", "can be done". The one other feature that was helpful was being able to reorder tasks.

Maybe I will get back to work on it. I thought I had found a perfect set of alpha users in the /r/productivity sub, but I'm not on reddit anymore.

[โ€“] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago
[โ€“] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, something like that is so helpful. Just even splitting something down into multiple steps so I will actually do it instead of staring at it in dread.