Ironically, this app is almost surely the product of procrastination. I had the idea to make this once, then I realized a) just do the thing, b) a literal post-it note solves this and more.
I think I would have gone with the Post-it. Or a file on my desktop. Even the data in the Post-it note is persisted in the event of power failure!
+ distributing it for others to use
is WAY more efficient than send post-it notes and a pen to every user who is looking for a way to stay on task.
It’d be useful if we had some form of electronic mail.
If only.
I think a forest is being missed for some trees here.
Not everyone has a supply of post-its. If you can avoid those purchases for a hundred people that's a significant impact already.
I respect Sindre Sorhus' work, and I'm not going to denigrate it. I'm not sure if that was ever in question, but I'd like to make that clear up front.
The One Thing tool is certainly neat. What confused me was a previous commenters fawning. The tool's author is certainly productive and has published lots of great stuff over a long period of time, but that does not mean the One Thing tool "was definitely made out of a need for efficiency or self improvement".
If the goal is "to help you focus on a single task", then there are certainly more "efficient" ways of achieving that. Again, not to say I don't like the tool. I like the tool. And I respect the author. But the lionization struck me as peculiar.
It's wrong to speak highly of friends now. Got it.
Sindre Sorhus makes some amazing projects, but he’s still human.