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I get the paid tier; I do... although i really hate that "dark mode" is ever considered a paid option by any application what-so-ever.

As someone who has very sensitive eyes (even when on HN I use a user script to turn everything dark) and works in low-light environments most of my day the sheer amount of applications I will not use due to the fact they will not give the option to enable dark mode is astounding.

Cool concept, i don't really like the double lining after each task but it's nothing more than a slight annoyance; i just really hate that what is essentially an accessibility feature being paid only is something on principle i'm not going to pay for, as i shouldn't owe you money to save my vision.

I'm not trying to complain too much; I think this is a really cool concept and the rest of the application seems to make sense. I like the simplicity etc.

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I completely agree. I wonder if it was Unity who started that trend.

By your logic, eye medicine should be free, because you shouldn’t owe pharma companies money to save your vision.

Food should be free, because you shouldn’t owe farmers, distributors and retailers money to make the food available to you.

But i get, why it might feel stingy. To each their own.

No; because that comes at cost.

I have glasses, they are expensive, I understand that. I have sensitive eyes and overtime they fatigue much quicker then they should.

No one owes you anything, especially at cost. However when it comes to a dark mode option, it doesn't cost the developer anything, it's a theme change.

The other options are great enough for a sub that it's worth it with or without dark mode; the mobile editor and cloud storage are good enough reason. I only felt it was even acceptable to state dark mode should be free because for a good portion of people it's necessity and there are other good reasons to buy a sub. I usually won't test a free application unless it has dark mode by default because it's that hard for me and I know from others that they experience this as well.

With or without dark mode, if you use something like this daily, you will end up caving and paying. Without dark mode, there are people like me who can't even test it out properly (it's physically painful to look at a white screen for too long).

Ok i get it now. Ignore my comment, sorry.

no worries; it's worth discussing :)

Even though I was convinced and changed the site to make dark mode free already, I'll say, it's not free. Maintaining a dark mode is a huge pain for me. I don't ever use dark mode, so it feels even more unpleasant. I obsess over the typography and colors, having to do it all twice is more work. That's one of the reasons I initially made it a paid feature.

Interesting; it is a rather good looking, very easy on the eyes, application, so your efforts are not in vain. I do understand though where you are coming from, and i do appreciate it.

Although I'm so far on the other end of the spectrum it's not even something that came to mind in my initial criticism. I'm the programmer that mostly works on old/outdated legacy systems that will never look "good" to anyone, and even then I rarely deal with the front-facing UI, usually spend most of my time working on low-level and background stuff that the user never sees. So I didn't even think about the relationship between light/dark when it comes down to unifying the two experiences with a "core" experience. If i were working on something like that I would want to change as little as possible between the two, though in that design consideration, then every element added to the program would have to be "compatible" with the core design, and the user's experience in both would have to be similar. So with that consideration, I could see why it would not be simple to implement/maintain.

What about something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode/dmghijel...?

There's also a version for Firefox.

Thanks, I'll have to try it out.

Update: I've made dark mode free, and I added a theme switcher in the bottom left.

Awesome, because you were so quick with the change and I really appreciate it (not just for myself but everyone else who has the same needs). I picked up a year sub just to support you, and once i saw how sexy the dark mode was I realized your app is something i will use often.

Consider it thanks for listening instead of disregarding. You are the first dev who has ever made this specific change on request and it's really thoughtful of you. (i've asked several devs for dark mode and they just ghost me)

Wow thanks so much!

Likewise! I've been using it consistently over the last few hours and it definitely does what it says on the tin; integrates really well and keeps my mind in the zone for much longer.

It's solid for sure, I'll get plenty of use out of it.

I launched the webapp today and noticed it was dark (my system is dark mode, but I like my webpages light), so I knew you added the theming to the free version.

I don't need any of the features in the Pro version but I picked up a yearly sub as well because it makes me happy to see feedback so quickly integrated !

My bucket list of features now : - <i> or <Enter> button in Command mode to enter Edit mode - Maybe a search feature to easily find a task in all Pages - More a "me" feature than a "you" feature but I'd love to find a way to be able to export the current running task name and timer and add it to my top bar (on Linux, with polybar). I have looked a bit at the application but didn't find an API endpoint I could hit or something like that so I might have to find a more hacky solution. To have something like this https://i.imgur.com/OUcyTyQ.png in the top-right bar

Thank you !

Imba looks awesome as well !

I added both "i" and "enter" to go back to editing mode.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll consider a change there for sure.

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