Checkvist Improvements

• GUI Improvements
  • Home Screen
    • Can't keyboard navigate the checklist list?
  • Keyboard Help
    • Group by action
    • Mouseover tips
      • It would be nice if there were keyboard command tooltips related to anything that you would use a mouse for. Then there would actually be an easier process of learning what things you could be doing better?
        • i.e., even for a basic a thing as entry. it took experimentation to find option or shift-enter lets you enter line breaks in the text box. also, i haven't quite figured out why sometimes i can savewithout creating another item and sometimes it does (either way it requires an extra enter or escape if it does the wrong thing)
    • Webapps w/ good (better) help popups
      • Github
      • GMail
      • Twitter
      • Todoist
    • '?' for keyboard help (a callout on top right so peopl can see this?)
    • / should be search
      • overall there are some standard keys that aren't used that are replaced w/ non-standard more keys (ff is nice and all but / is used everywhere and isn't used at all in checkvist?)
  • Hot Keys
    • Due Date: Assigning common dates, navigating from today, etc
    • Tags
      • Well, there's 'tt' I guess I'll need to be a bit more specific about what's bothering me here.
  • Checklist View (Main List, Move to List)
    • Keyboard Shortcuts (cmd 1-10)
      • This is somewhat mollified/conflicting w/ type ahead find, but would be perfect if it was linked to an accelerator key. think about how launchers (quicksilver, alfred) and clipboard managers (like clipmenu) work
  • Better Reordering
    • Keyboard - shift j/k etc (any move but w/ shift held down)
      • or ctrl if that's going to be the standard modifier key for list manipulation
    • Drag Handle on the very right
  • Better ways of focus
    • Navigate to next in level?
      • See ec: http://checkvist.tumblr.com/post/1552788417/expand-list-options-and-a-handful-of-fixes
    • Hide everything but this group?
  • Find
    • Find Tags
      • fn-enter to search All
      • ESC should close the Filter window?
  • Full Text Search / Filtering; does it exist?
• Problems
  • Can't Create an item at top of list? Exacerbates lack of keyboard reordering...
    • This can be done by hitting Escape (defocuses items) and then Enter
• RFE
  • List Categories/Folders
    • For managing and scoping large number of lists, especially in the main view
  • Modified By
    • For shared Lists, sd tracks original creation, but not edits, a tree or some way to see new stuff would be nice
    • Secondary view w/ new edits/changes?
      • This is especially important for shared lists, ie if someone is "assigning" you tasks (tagging you or something). It'd be nice to see things based on when they were changed
    • Are edits/versions stored? I assume at least when something is checked off is stored, but it occured to me that might not be the case at all...
  • Local Version
    • Should this really be HTML5 App w/ Local Cache of everything?
      • Maybe it should work standalone and simply sync w/ the server.
  • Mobile Version
    • Handling touch events
    • Hard to remap all KB functions...
    • Need
      • Search
      • Entry
    • Could be HTML5, use SQLite3 FTS, etc
  • Views
    • Current minimal, + more info for the specific task? Easier way to expand all (x?) (vs sd that shows for everything)
    • One thing that's nice about workflowy is the "zoom" - rather than just expansion, it actually lets you focus within a scope, which is good for removing distractions
  • Half Baked
    • Due Time
    • Remind me later
      • Rubby Ducky
    • Effort Tracking / Estimates
      • Simple timer, logging
    • Geo-located events
    • Repeating Tasks
  • Desktop Integration
    • Alfred+API?
      • http://checkvist.com/auth/api
  • Guest Pass / Token-based Permissions
    • It would be nice to share lists w/ a secret URL. If accessed w/ this URL/token, should be either viewable or editable by anyone. This would be especially useful for embedding purposes (ie in a corporate intranet)
• Compare
  • Todoist
  • Toodledo
  • Workflowy
• Learned
  • cmd-1, 1 for colors, cool
  • I use this icon for my Fluid SSB App:
    • http://cdn.appappeal.com/pictures/6835/logo.png
• Adoption Hurdles
  • Sharing
    • Suitability for multi-user task handling somewhat limited without a better way of tracking who assigned what (to whom can be a tag, although automatically colored tag assignments or actually parsing people out would be useful, ie #email and a UI layer a la dates?)
    • Being able to track/changelog/view history - having an at a glance view at what's changed since a certain time, what's been changed by others.
  • Mobile
    • One of our coworkers uses Toodledo for her personal use. She can't imagine not having a mobile version. I can't really blame her for that, especially as she's checking of things on the move all the time. Checkvist's current mobile UI doesn't cut it (interaction-wise, feature-wise, lack of network independence - iPhone on AT&T in LA)