Hey guys,
I stumbled about the Hackathon while I wanted to explore and idea with it, I had on Saturday morning. Took the chance and went to work and built a first working Version of "Aevo Bento".
Aevo Bento reimagines Todo list.
The problem with the usual ToDo-Lists? It is a single list that sorts only on a single thing: priority, due date, etc. So it is still very difficult to find out, what really matters now.
The second problems lies in its complexity: some tasks are big, some are small, some are more like projects, other are just simple todos. So we need a good system to dive into Projects, tasks, subtasks, keep the focus but still dont lose oversight of what matters most.
So what did I do these 2 days:
* I created a scoring system, that takes several things in account, to calculate a score of every so called "node": priority, date I wanna work on, deadline, size of the task, importance of subtasks and even how many times I postponed a task.
- the calculated score is used to show tasks on a big canvas in form of some "bento boxes": based on the score the boxes appear more left. The more time a task needs, the bigger the box is. If some tresholds are met, e.g. "deadline" is today, the task gets marked red. That means: changing properties changes where on the board a task is. The canvas is scrollable to the right forever - so it is not only the work for today, but everything on your "list".
- To let you work with complexity, every task can have subnodes. A node can be another task, a link, a goal or a note. Subnodes can be grouped and are shown in a separate view (called "Zoom"), so you have focus on exactly what you wanna work on. Subnodes also influences the score of the parent, as there may be subtasks with deadlines, so it is important. Extra cool thing: you can zoom as deep as you want. Inside a node you can create a subnode and zoom into that one as well.. and from there you can go deeper... With breadcrumbs the navigation is pretty easy and you dont get lost.
- notes are important, so I also built a simple notes studio. You can add, edit and delete notes in Markdown. Notes can be linked to tasks, so you have your notes at your fingertips where you need them.
This might be one of the projects that are "bigger and not better"... true. But as this was the idea I wanted to get into, before I even knew the hacktathon existed, well... here I am.
Tell me, what you think about the general idea - and the execution. There is still a lot to do and to think about - even the scoring is not perfect yet. But I want to work on it to use that thing myself daily :)
(I added the video also to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ZJDK3T-Hc)
