Nullboard
Productivity
to-do lists
SHOW HN2019
145points
37comments
#302of 2,195 in 2019
Top 14%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
5 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Design: 1 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Works offline and stores data locally
From 2 comments
Something I made to replace an ever-growing pile of scratch papers with ToDo lists for everything under the sun. It's a single html page, depends only on jQuery and a small…
apankrat on HNI like it! Although the font is a little hard to read for me. Shameless plug for my to-do app built using client-side Blazor: https://do.lord.technology/ Everything is offline…
076ae80a-3c97-4 on HN
Firefox-first support and clean, readable source
From 2 comments
Works in Firefox, tested in Chrome Thank you for putting Firefox first! A welcoming change.
bprasanna on HNRight click -> View Source gives you clear, unminified complete source code + explanation + BSD license. Very nice, and decentralised. Who needs Github to distribute software?
quickthrower2 on HN
Objections
Font sizes too small (11px)
From 2 comments
11px fonts, really? For the sake of the well-being of users, increase the default on size.
wzy on HNI don't know if it's just me but hamburger menus that appear/disappear on hover seems very frustrating to use for me, it's especially obvious on this where the font size is so…
mattcoles on HN
Hover-only hamburger menus are fiddly
From 2 comments
I don't know if it's just me but hamburger menus that appear/disappear on hover seems very frustrating to use for me, it's especially obvious on this where the font size is so…
mattcoles on HNHeads up, the "main" menu hamburger will cover the headline menu burger if the window is scaled right (half my monitor). Another thought, would it be possible to implement…
all2 on HN
No mobile support; drag and drop fails on mobile
From 2 comments
Drag and drop doesn't work on mobile.
sansnomme on HNYes, among other things. This is 100% desktop-oriented app.
apankrat on HN
Requests
Mobile support
From 2 comments
Think mobile support can be added?
sansnomme on HNThat's a very nice project, congrats for something that is at least useful to someone! As you're already aware the mobile version isn't as straightforward as on desktop but it's…
rakoo on HN
Keyboard navigation and a new-note shortcut
From 2 comments
Heads up, the "main" menu hamburger will cover the headline menu burger if the window is scaled right (half my monitor). Another thought, would it be possible to implement…
all2 on HNBravo! Nice work. I'd love to see a keyboard shortcut for adding a new note that would work from any state.
rfeague on HN
Sync across devices
From 1 comment
That's a very nice project, congrats for something that is at least useful to someone! As you're already aware the mobile version isn't as straightforward as on desktop but it's…
rakoo on HN
Questions
How durable is browser localStorage data?
From 2 comments
That's a very nice project, congrats for something that is at least useful to someone! As you're already aware the mobile version isn't as straightforward as on desktop but it's…
rakoo on HNThese things are stored in the browsers localStorage right? It can't be just me that have no faith in that, it /feels/ like the browser could purge it whenever it wants. Am I…
wingerlang on HN
Whether the source will be published
From 2 comments
PS. Since we are showing things... I also ended up writing a screen-to-gif recorder to make the gifs for the Nullboard's readme. I always assumed this was a rather involved…
apankrat on HNHey, thanks for this and bvckup2! I'd definitely be interested in seeing the source.
voltagex_ on HN
Alternatives named
ScreenToGIF and GifCam for screen recording
From 1 comment
I can strongly recommend ScreenToGIF [1]. It literally does as the name says but packs in some helpful additional features related to editing. [1] https://www.screentogif.com/
frederikb on HN
Emacs Org-Mode
From 2 comments
Really just came here to see if anyone else had already used this as an opportunity to plug Emacs Org-Mode
defnotarobot on HNAbsolutely, one tool to rule them all! Exports to a bunch of formats including PDF, HTML, TeX, ODT, etc. - Notes - Lists - Papers - Cheat sheets - Slides - Documents - Books…
legends2k on HN
Workflowy
From 1 comment
That's a very nice project, congrats for something that is at least useful to someone! As you're already aware the mobile version isn't as straightforward as on desktop but it's…
rakoo on HN
taskdb (PostgreSQL-backed to-do app)
From 1 comment
Bragging about my own: https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/ My take starts from the most backend thing - the database. Using PostgreSQL as data storage was a huge win, making…
andrey_utkin on HN