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Comment by wongarsu | Hacker News Reader

Very interesting. Is the UI written with mobile in mind, or do you only use it in desktop settings (like work-related productivity)?

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Desktop only for now. I use the "Saved Messages" feature in Telegram to make notes on phone, and transfer them over later, and delete those messages to avoid build up.

From the beginning, it was never limited to work-related productivity. Examples of things that I've been regularly tracking:

  - Habits: Wake Up / Sleep times, Daily Routine items I want to build consistency on, like exercising and meditation.
  - Tracking TV Shows, Movies, Books, Articles.
  - Meal Tracking, although it does not include calorie counting. I also track my weight, and find that graph particularly useful.
  - Birthday / Anniversary Reminders, with multiple warning days to adjust for timezone difference.
  - Conversations and Meeting notes, so that I can quickly remind myself about previous discussion when I am about to talk to someone.

Fun fact: I ended up accidentally impressing the girl who became my fiance with my "good memory" because of this.

I also added custom things like "conversation reminders" since I'm an introvert and needed a bit of a nudge if I have not spoken to certain friends in X days.

Television Example - https://imgur.com/a/gLZKkjn

That sounds like you get a lot of good utility out of it. A lot of it are things were I would have expected a mobile use case, but maybe there is value in explicitly making it two steps: rough recording in telegram and later taking the time to go over it again and put it more nearly into Glados.

> maybe there is value in explicitly making it two steps

Not that I can tell. Telegram is ultimately a workaround, not a feature. Not building a mobile app is primarily the result of the limits on my time (and to a smaller extent, skills, but that can be solved with time too).

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