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Crack the Whip

I really want to write a webapp in the vein of NowDoThis.com -- a instant task management "boss" -- but using the Todoist API instead. That way, a user could login with his unique Todoist key, and the to do items currently in Todoist would be imported. Then just like NowDoThis, the web app would command you to do one of them, starting with the most important one (judging importance by the task's priority and position) in Todoist. The app, tentatively called Crack the Whip, would let you select which node of your Todoist task tree you would like to read tasks from, so it would instruct you to do only your household chores, for instance. All of this with no sign-up entrance barrier; the only user input would be the user's Todoist web service token, and then (optionally) choosing which section of the to do list to read tasks from.

Crack the Whip would include an option that orders the dictated tasks by their priority in Todoist, or ignores the priority altogether and spits them out with random abandon. An optional button would allow users to click "not now, give me the next task" if they aren't able to do the suggested one, or the button could be omitted for those that have trouble with procrastinating over larger items on their to do. Other simple features, mostly just yes-or-no checkboxes, would be included.

It's too bad that I am now out of summer-time, otherwise I would work on Crack the Whip... and it would be fun and [debatably] useful. It technically should be called Kansas if I'm the one writing it, though my guess is that title would confuse a lot of people.

August 20 of 2008 at 8.0583 pm    0 comments listed.