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Hi everyone!, I want to share my lastest project.

The objective of daily.place is to have within reach of a single page the necessary tools to be able to have a space for concentration. Ambient sounds, pomodoro timer and a to do list.

Everything is saved and available in your browser under a name of your choosing.

- Music list with different ambient modes (rain, forest, lo-fi, coffee shop, etc.)

- Pomodoro timer with short and long pause, fully configurable.

- To-do list with progress bar.

- Light and dark mode.

- Configurable name + daily greeting and current time and date.

Any feedback is welcome! enjoy it!

I really like the idea behind this. And the first impressions for me were that I loved it.

It has a few issues but should be fixable:

- Lofi needs to keep playing more than one song. I've read elsewhere, and I agree, that when the music becomes recognizable, it doesn't have the same effect in terms of helping to maintain focus.

- Loop of playlist for background noises shouldn't fade out/in before replaying

- The To Do list when entering, it doesn't wrap at all. And once it's entered, it doesn't wrap based on words so a word is split in two which is awkward.

These feel like they should be easy to fix though.

I'm keeping it bookmarked and will look for the updates. Good luck!

Seems like this should have been posted as "Show HN"?

I love the design and simplicity!

I'll bookmark this one and maybe take some inspiration for my own productivity app that I have been working on in my spare time https://wols.io/

I find it interesting that all timer apps are focused on tasks and what you do while in focus mode. However, shouldn't we also prioritize the importance of breaks and intervals between work sessions?

Very cool! What about adding binaural beats for focus?

Huberman on binaural beats for focus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iboQ7mmGGGU&vl=en

Interesting! I will test it, thanks!

That sounds interesting. Any good Spotify / Youtube playlists to check out?

Focus: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX7EF8wVxBVhG?si=...

Flow State: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX2Ca9Q0E4D7d?si=...

I suppose it's fine if a lot of people like it, but if anything it shows how little desktop environments have advanced/bloomed, and how deeply cargo-culted that whole space is.

This should be trivially easy to implement without visiting the web.

> it shows how little desktop environments have advanced/bloomed

Are you suggesting it should be built in to a desktop environment and not a separate program? Why?

> how deeply cargo-culted that whole space is

Desktop environments? I don't understand this point at all.

> This should be trivially easy to implement without visiting the web.

By "should" are you critiquing the author, or do you not think it's easy for some reason?

Back in my Windows XP days I had an app installed called Desktop Sidebar[1], which would be exactly the place I'd want all of this functionality today. Or in some kind of widget layer, like with MacOS. Hmm it's been a long time since I thought about desktop customization, maybe I should see if there is anything similar for GNOME these days.

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20120527201322/http://desktopsid...

I very rarely see my desktop, since I almost always have a full-size terminal window with a split running, along with a browser window, Finder, VSCode, Preview, Pages, and other apps open. I think the use case this is designed for is people like that who are rotating between browser tabs a lot and not minimizing everything to see their desktop.

Not critiquing the author at all -- what I'm saying is: There is absolutely nothing about this that requires a connection to the internet or to store any of this with a 3rd party. That's a liability.

This entire system could be done locally with a more "pliable" environment, but e.g. those of us who want something customizable would have to slog through bash scripts or emacs or something like that.

Instead of e.g. something that worked like the famed/mythical "modern Hypercard."

A local piece of HTML works fine as a modern hypercard. Or various app platforms that give you a similar experience. As far as I can tell the pliability you want is already there.

This is honestly the weirdest and most wrong thing I've ever seen anyone say on HN. The two are not remotely comparable. Like, you no, you can't drag and drop to create a calculator with HTML.

I see.

I thought you were saying that making this work offline should be trivial. I didn't realize you wanted to replace the entire dev process, to have the end user make their own version from scratch.

So my reply was talking about the ease of installing a program that was developed like this but for offline use, not the ease of make-your-own.

You're of course right that making your own has no easy solution here. But that's a separate problem from working offline, and the way you talked about both problems at the same time confused me.

You can, however, have a single html document containing an editing environment that can be used to "drag-and-drop" together a calculator: https://beyondloom.com/decker/

I think it's very convenient that you can get something useful without having to install anything, and it just works on every platform.

Hi all! Some updates of v3!

- Fix: CSS 'break-word' in tasks.

- Add edit support to tasks.

- Store place names to show in homepage. Add support to remove them.

- Add notification system.

- Add hotkeys support.

- Add ASMR sound.

- Add buymeacoffee.com support.

- Replace cloudinary for imagekit.

- Add 'delete all tasks' button.

This is quite cool and I like it. Lots of people will point out that this falls short of some key critical features. But if it works for it will surely work for a 100 more people like you

I am always amazed how people find ideas for projects like this. I would never think of making something like that, what was the thought process here? Is this a personal project that just turned into something else? Or idea was just exactly this from the start?

This is very creative but also has this vibe that "I've seen it before" even though I probably did not and it just combines many different tools into one. Really cool!

Thanks for your comment! I started as a side project to use nextjs + mantine UI. And the thing become serious when I saw that's it's useful for the day to day haha

Really nice, bookmarked! +1 for the persistent option. very nicely implemented.

I created something(1) very similar few days back with the idea that a break for entertainment should not result in doom scrolling. Currently it has time progress, music station and cards.Would probably add todo and more personalization later.

(1) https://daily.threesixfive.shop

Very Cool. but CPU usage is always 15% and memory usage 350MB, It will be better if it's resource efficiency

I like this a lot. Are there plans to be able to create places that persist?

Hey! thanks for your feedback. For a next iteration I thinking in add some basic third party auth and store that local storage into a database or jsonbin service. But I have to analyze it a little more, because each task added or each pomodoro clock finish is a call to and endpoint.

Yeah, wrong post type, but I dig it.

How are you supposed to keep your page though?

Daily.place/Katie or /Steve are going to have some real competition

It seems to be local only

Cool website! One minor nit: coffee shop is misspelled on the website. It instead says "coffe shop"

Good catch, thanks!

The way this combines different aspects of environment and work is awesome. Like it!

Very nicely designed. I appreciate that it works and looks as great on mobile.

this is really good. thank you

Nice app...

Ehh... I think it's just okay. It's like a mix of things I might use, but each thing is just okay.

The ambiance sounds are an obvious loop after a few minutes. The coffee shop one was pleasant, but then it goes silent at the end of the track and pulls me out of my focus. Similar story with the lo-fi. A few minutes in and I memorized the loop and felt distracted by it.

I don't need a todo app. Anything work related goes on github issues/projects and anything personal goes in my e-mail inbox.

The Pomodoro was my favorite feature. I like the simple ding when a session is over. I might use it again, but do I open daily.place or do I go to a website more focused on delivering the best possible pomodoro timer?

Do I really need another website to visit on a regular basis? Isn't the best interface no interface?

"Do one thing well and work well with others." <-- not Daily.place

Disagree.

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