Comment by _odey | Hacker News Reader

Comment by _odey | Hacker News Reader

Was looking for a "grocery list" type of application and this one seems to be the fastest and most user friendly one in all of F-Droid.

Two small improvements I would suggest:

1. A sorting order where checked tasks are moved at the bottom, keeping only the unchecked ones on top. (I could not find this if it's already implemented). Note: I want to see all of them, just have the checked ones moved.

2. The save button on task creation is a bit weird. It occupies the top row, together with the delete button on existing tasks, but the checked button is floating on the right. You might want to unify the look of these 3 buttons.

Otherwise, good work! I'll be using it from now on. Normally I'd use Orgzly for tasks, but grocery lists are a bit different, you want to be able to operate them with one hand while carrying your groceries with another. This app allows that while Orgzly is a pain to work with as it requires multiple actions to mark a task done. I know this from personal experience.

Thanks for the feedback! I plan to implement #1, and I get a few complaints about #2. I'm not sure what to do about it, but currently there are preferences to hide the check button altogether, as well as an option to save when back is pressed

I've enabled those two settings now, fits my fingers better. Thanks for the hint!

As for the look of those buttons and where to put them, not sure if my suggestion is good, but how about having them floating as a row at the bottom of the screen, and right above the keyboard when it's active. This is sort of how it looks like in `Simpletask` (another task app on F-Droid that I tried out and liked).

I'm curious about 2. I just downloaded and the first thing I noticed was how hard it is to use the save one handed. When I create a new task, I have only a single button in the top LEFT, which is the save icon. I can't reach that even with my giant hands on a OnePlus 8 Pro. I have no idea what the "checked" button is people are referring to, I even turned on the "hide" option for it and saw no change. In editing an existing list I see Save on the left, and 3 dot menu with Discard and Delete.

When you edit an existing task there is a big button on the app bar with a checkbox that completes the task. The button is not visible on a new task. Since you toggled on the "hide" option it will not be displayed at all.

If you toggle on 'Look and feel > Back button saves task' then you can use your back button instead of the save button up in the corner

Thanks, make perfect sense. I was really confused for a minute when checking the box on the home screen "deleted" the list (it just hides them as completed, which aren't shown by default).

I can see some really nice shortcuts that must make it very quick and easy to use once you're used to it, but take a little learning.

"Our Groceries" is a great little shopping list app.

(I'm not affiliated with them, I just use and like their app)

They even have a web interface to the same lists: https://www.ourgroceries.com/overview

This seems to be an online service, not an offline app. While I understand its usecase, it's not what I'm personally looking for.

No, it can be used offline perfectly fine.

Edit: I think I get it now, you prefer to not have the online component at all.

Try shoppinglist.google.com, is integrated with google home if you use that.

If that was an offline app, and especially not google owned I'd use it.

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