There are a million to-do apps out there. Building a to-do app is often the first tutorial when learning a new platform or framework. However, there was not a single product that met my unique needs, necessitating the creation of this product.
Reasons this exists:
- privacy
- create a sense of ephemeralism
- minimal and beautiful solution did not exist as per my personal design preferences
I work a desk job at my university and my supervisor would give me a list of tasks every shift. I would list these down in my Google Tasks but I didn't want to have my Gmail tab open because of privacy reasons. This is unfortunately the only way to use Google Tasks. I would sometimes write a whole bunch of tasks down, forget about them and have them not complete. The cloud backup and sync didn't create a sense of urgency for me.
I created this to-do app because:
- It was a design perfectly tailored to my personal preferences.
- I didn't have to sign in, make any new accounts in a 3rd party service, accept free trials, etc.
- I didn't have to keep my Gmail open and just have a list of my tasks displayed.
- There was initially no storage whatsoever. This meant that if I closed the browser tab, I would lose all the data, forcing me to actually close out all the tasks. This was later replaced by a local storage solution because I accidently closed a tab once.
- I wanted to see how quickly I could whip something up. Turns out, pretty quickly.