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openhercules.com

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Considering the furor over dcurtis's elitism and closedness, I figured it was a good time to finally get off my ass and open source the list app I've worked on over the last year and a half.

In retrospect, I should have titled this submission, "Codename: Open Hercvles"

Congratulations, you've created something far better than what Asana and their huge team took 3+ years to build.

http://checklisthub.com/ was actually the reason my partner and I stopped working on a keyboard friendly todo list. I figured it was basically everything I wanted, and it was already built. Great work, and thanks for open sourcing it now.

Wow, crazy. I hope you find some benefit from the source code.

I don't plan on expending much effort to market this. My primary desire is to get contributions. My next desire after that is to finally be able to get this installed behind the firewall at the company where I work. It'll be cool if the public site gets really popular, but honestly I don't know how to go about making that happen. It would be personally gratifying to see web dev checklists created by other folks which I can clone and use myself :)

Looks great! Very clean design, nice and simple. I just have a couple of minor nitpicks:

1. It's billed as keyboard friendly, but there's no obvious keyboard shortcut for opening the list of keyboard commands. I would make a ? shortcut for that, put a hint for it in the page text, and open it as a modal overlay that can be dismissed with Escape.

2. Indent/Outdent. Since there's no other command for [ and ], why require Ctrl? Additionally, you could use , and . (< and >) since they are closer to the home row.

Best of luck with your app, I look forward to seeing how it develops further.

Thanks for the feedback!

1. Good idea! 2. Good question. I guess I'm just used to doing that elsewhere. Also, I have a kinesis keyboard which places brackets in a more convenient spot, and I guess I forgot about that. I like command and period.

Great one. Also, some critique.

Considering this is a keyboard app, you could try and support all of common keyboard commands. Like Home, End. Indentation could be done via tab and shift+tab.

It also would be great, if you could support multiple selections via shift+arrow up/down. Backspace is good, but del key should delete also.

Also, I am not sure about Esc key as an editing shortcut.

Thanks for the feedback. It seems like the key bindings are large source of debate, so I might end up making them editable.

I'm reluctant to use tab and shift+tab to indent/outdent because that interferes with browser behavior. On the other hand, some of the other key bindings probably interfere with browser behavior, too.

Very nice. Have you checked out The Hit List?

One of the main reasons I chose it was it keyboard friendly controls.

One suggestion - in edit mode, the a and d keys are much more intuitive for indenting a line. Also, shift + j/k is more intuitive for moving lines than ctrl + arrow keys.

I guess my vim-brain is showing through ;)

Thanks for the feedback :) j/k actually move the selection up and down. Will have to add shift+j/k for folks like yourself. I've heard the vim comment many times, heh

I haven't checked out the hit list, but I've heard good things about it

> http://openhercules.com/lists/4f6ccefaa9fcc8000100022d

> Try hitting 'escape' and editing this text. Hit 'escape' to save.

I tried. No matter what I type, it unfocuses the item (gets out of edit mode)

That's not good. What browser are you using?

ff10

I have the same bug. Other ones : shift+enter just goes up not adding a new entry before Pressing enter adds an entry but after that, the CTRL key adds new entries everytime.

I've been looking for something like this, and I like it! I might end up putting it on my server to use privately.

Unfortunately, your GitHub link is wrong (404). (edit: fixed)

Whoops! Thanks. I forgot to change it from private to public.

Awesome job. Thanks so much for making it open source. One small thing though: escape to edit doesn't work in Safari.

Thanks, I'll have to fix that

Awesome idea! Trying it out right now. :)

Good stuff, but how do I undo a "delete" ?

Undo is coming along. It's maybe 25% done.

Thanks for the contribution. One suggestion: a link back from your Github page to the demo page...I wanted to send the Github link around.

Done! Thanks for the suggestion.

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