Show HN: free, open source, keyboard friendly list app

by nonrecursive • 14 years ago

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nathanpc• 14 years ago

Awesome idea! Trying it out right now. :)

nonrecursive10• 14 years ago

Considering the furor over dcurtis's elitism and closedness, I figured it was a good time to finally get off my ass and open source the list app I've worked on over the last year and a half.

In retrospect, I should have titled this submission, "Codename: Open Hercvles"

klines• 14 years ago

I've been looking for something like this, and I like it! I might end up putting it on my server to use privately.

Unfortunately, your GitHub link is wrong (404). (edit: fixed)

nonrecursive10• 14 years ago

Whoops! Thanks. I forgot to change it from private to public.

danso• 14 years ago

Thanks for the contribution. One suggestion: a link back from your Github page to the demo page...I wanted to send the Github link around.

nonrecursive10• 14 years ago

Done! Thanks for the suggestion.

Zikes• 14 years ago

Looks great! Very clean design, nice and simple. I just have a couple of minor nitpicks:

1. It's billed as keyboard friendly, but there's no obvious keyboard shortcut for opening the list of keyboard commands. I would make a ? shortcut for that, put a hint for it in the page text, and open it as a modal overlay that can be dismissed with Escape.

2. Indent/Outdent. Since there's no other command for [ and ], why require Ctrl? Additionally, you could use , and . (< and >) since they are closer to the home row.

Best of luck with your app, I look forward to seeing how it develops further.

nonrecursive10• 14 years ago

Thanks for the feedback!

1. Good idea! 2. Good question. I guess I'm just used to doing that elsewhere. Also, I have a kinesis keyboard which places brackets in a more convenient spot, and I guess I forgot about that. I like command and period.

cake• 14 years ago

Good stuff, but how do I undo a "delete" ?

nonrecursive10• 14 years ago

Undo is coming along. It's maybe 25% done.

tony_landis• 14 years ago

Very nice. Have you checked out The Hit List?

One of the main reasons I chose it was it keyboard friendly controls.

One suggestion - in edit mode, the a and d keys are much more intuitive for indenting a line. Also, shift + j/k is more intuitive for moving lines than ctrl + arrow keys.

I guess my vim-brain is showing through ;)

nonrecursive10• 14 years ago

Thanks for the feedback :) j/k actually move the selection up and down. Will have to add shift+j/k for folks like yourself. I've heard the vim comment many times, heh

I haven't checked out the hit list, but I've heard good things about it

laacz• 14 years ago

Great one. Also, some critique.

Considering this is a keyboard app, you could try and support all of common keyboard commands. Like Home, End. Indentation could be done via tab and shift+tab.

It also would be great, if you could support multiple selections via shift+arrow up/down. Backspace is good, but del key should delete also.

Also, I am not sure about Esc key as an editing shortcut.

nonrecursive10• 14 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. It seems like the key bindings are large source of debate, so I might end up making them editable.

I'm reluctant to use tab and shift+tab to indent/outdent because that interferes with browser behavior. On the other hand, some of the other key bindings probably interfere with browser behavior, too.

zalew2• 14 years ago

> http://openhercules.com/lists/4f6ccefaa9fcc8000100022d

> Try hitting 'escape' and editing this text. Hit 'escape' to save.

I tried. No matter what I type, it unfocuses the item (gets out of edit mode)

nonrecursive10• 14 years ago

That's not good. What browser are you using?

zalew2• 14 years ago

ff10

heliostatic• 14 years ago

http://checklisthub.com/ was actually the reason my partner and I stopped working on a keyboard friendly todo list. I figured it was basically everything I wanted, and it was already built. Great work, and thanks for open sourcing it now.

nonrecursive10• 14 years ago

Wow, crazy. I hope you find some benefit from the source code.

I don't plan on expending much effort to market this. My primary desire is to get contributions. My next desire after that is to finally be able to get this installed behind the firewall at the company where I work. It'll be cool if the public site gets really popular, but honestly I don't know how to go about making that happen. It would be personally gratifying to see web dev checklists created by other folks which I can clone and use myself :)

ataranto• 14 years ago

Congratulations, you've created something far better than what Asana and their huge team took 3+ years to build.

atestu• 14 years ago

Awesome job. Thanks so much for making it open source. One small thing though: escape to edit doesn't work in Safari.

nonrecursive10• 14 years ago

Thanks, I'll have to fix that

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