Show HN: Lanes – a minimalist week-planner and Pomodoro timer

You need something like...

    Lanes is a simple to-do list with a built in pomodoro tracker designed
    to help you stay focused during your day.

    -- Insert screenshot of Lanes in action --

    Here's how it works:

    1. Build your to-do list for each day

    2. When you're ready to work, start a pomodoro tracker.
       The top task for the day is what you should be working on.

    3. Once your pomodoro is up... stand up, stretch, and if you've completed
       your task, mark it as done.

    4. After your short pomodoro break, goto 2.

    -- Insert testimonials about how lanes helped your customers save X
       amount of time or get N things done or achieve 100% increase
       in tasks completed --

    What are you waiting for... you should sign up
    for Lanes and start getting things done!"

Still much to do so before I dig into the next set of updates I figured I'd share here and get your take. Cheers.

*A good chunk of which were around improving drag and drop, which turned out to be easier said than done.

I briefly saw some "action" links or nav menu in the top-right (day, week, poms), but then the "what is lanes" green bar at the top covers up the action menu. The "what is lanes" thing didn't explain anything to me. And when I forcibly deleted the bar using web inspector, then the action buttons didn't work (day / week / poms). Very confusing. (But a big fan of pomodoro technique so looking forward to seeing what exactly it is you've created once it gets explained better and the UI gets cleaned up.)

After trying various todo lists and kanban boards I finally settled on using my google calendar which works perfectly as both my todo list and scheduler.

More on this http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/03/monday-master-class-do...

Clicking the 'what is lanes' thing, I get this:

    [Warning] [Vue warn]: Unknown custom element: <v_settings> - did you register the component correctly? (bundle.js, line 13)
    [Warning] [Vue warn]: Unknown custom element: <v_connect> - did you register the component correctly? (bundle.js, line 13)
    [Warning] [Vue warn]: Unknown custom element: <v_bgt> - did you register the component correctly? (bundle.js, line 13)
    [Warning] [Vue warn]: Unknown custom element: <v_imagegal> - did you register the component correctly? (bundle.js, line 13)
    [Warning] [Vue warn]: Unknown custom element: <bgtab> - did you register the component correctly? (bundle.js, line 13)

You also may need to streamline your sign up screen as it defaults to login without clear messaging.

Seems like a good start but you may have to work on your actual use cases and step through it with a few brand new users.

A caveat would be having the top right menu be a bit more distinguishable, it can get lost very easily with some backgrounds:

http://puu.sh/n19Fx/b34d4c217f.jpg (With POM :Hovered)

However, this can be fixed using your favorite CSS injector so it isn't that problematic. I just added:

  .view_item {
    color: white;
  }

  .view_item_active {
    color: #191919;
  }

Suggestion: If you allow custom background, think carefully about the font colors. On the default background (tree & blue/gray sky) it was very hard to notice "up next" and "later" lablels - I wouldn't notice them were it not for your intro video in which they were more visible).

Also, a simple way to get back to "today" in the week view. I was surprised to find out it wasn't in the leftmost page.

Are there any other weekly planner apps like this?