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While the dictionary definition is not the same, I think they are "similar" enough. Also, it's up to the user to define impact/importance, depending on their state of mind/ prioritization need. It's not a rigid framework.
I only tried your app on phone but it looks like you can't tap and add or drag things around. You always need to edit the numbers. Maybe the UX/UI could use some love?
Oh man, I hear you, most of this stuff is really random. your app was pretty neat though
Thanks! I like cool names, plus I wanted to make planning/ prioritization fun and not daunting.
Haha, I would not be surprised if Beatnik gave birth to the word 'baller'.
Fair enough. Yeah, I don't intend to make money off this, so will open source soon.
Yeah, I haven't given it that much thought. It only started as a weekend project. I would like to keep it as local as I can. Possibly, there will be 2 uses: a non-db, non-url, local version AND an account based thing.
Lol, this is hilarious.
The highlighted task is the "most" important task in terms of impact and urgency.
Interesting! Yeah that's an easy fix.
It's all the same. From what I read today, Eisenhower used and popularized it and then Covey improved upon it and used it in his book. Same stuff, just different packaging, this one too :D
Doable but no such plans yet
Yep, those are awesome suggestions. I'm gonna work with some friends who know UX to improve that.
Eventually, depending on how it goes, the URL will contain a key to some DB entry, so multi-device persistence can work. Adding all this to the URL is doable too, I might just start with that, thanks for the idea ;)
To those who pointed out that I should mention Eisenhower or Covey, they have been given due credit here: https://ballertodo.com/what
Thanks for informing me about Covey :)
Haha, IKR! Too many accounts :D
Color/ size seem to be the common consensus, and I will work that in. Edges clutter things too much
Yes, it makes the screen eerily blank and uninviting. Maybe I can grey them out or something
Oh boy, you are right. I missed that! Will fix. Thanks for bringing it up.
Cheers! I did not know this from Covey's book, but TIL :)
Yeah, planning is a double edged sword. And I don't believe one tool works for everyone or all needs. Our brains and thought processes are too varied to all fit in opinionated frameworks.
Yeah, I posted here for the feedback/ response. Trying to improve my understanding of UX/UI and no better way than to get users to tell you :D
Sure. I think the axis names is easy enough. I need to start working on the sharing/ saving of accounts coz a bunch of folks have requested that now
Yep, IIUC what you are talking about is similar to the question others have raised about an "Effort" dimension. To keep the daily or slightly more long term planning simple, I opted to not consider those dimensions. You raise a good point and I need to give it some thought. It has to be "complete" enough that you can prioritize properly, but easy enough that you can use it all the time. The finance example is a good one, but I think you could boil all the costs down to a single term for that case. (essentially it's just money lost). Just like the user makes a choice there, the expectation here is that the user will formulate an impact-effort code in their mind and add a task.
FYI You click on the empty graph to create tasks in the 2D grid.
Argh, that means I did a bad job at the UI. The "things" on the right are not supposed to be buttons, but cards that get updated when you add tasks. There is only one button, the last one which says "completed" which clears out your completed tasks.
Can I ask you what I could do to make them NOT look like buttons or what made you think they were buttons? :)
Fair enough, that's an easy fix. Will update. Thanks for the advice
Haha, take the other people out of the equation. This is more about self-prioritization. How your team/ org works/ prioritises depends on a variety of factors and I do not think any single framework will serve all those. This is not even attempting to solve that need.
Yes, essentially. A list is one-dimensional, so you can only rank a task by it's order. There are actually multiple dimensions that our brain considers when making decisions, but I only chose these 2. There could be more (as others have pointed out), but that makes the planning annoying and visualization cluttered.
Haha thanks for the offer but I will have to decline. I am kinda in my own space right now, just tinkering with some ideas.
Thanks! Yep, lists aren't great, unless they all fall in the same domain (like grocery shopping, travel packing, etc.). Bring in context change and they tend to become less useful, really quickly.
As others have pointed out, this is nothing new. I am just presenting an easy to use app+viz