Comment by kingnight | Hacker News Reader

Comment by kingnight | Hacker News Reader

I know this is a pretty open/flexble tool — but from looking at the examples and trying out the web/app I have a few questions:

- What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header?

- How are notifications in the app (ios) incorporated. Do they notify based on "@date time" of item?

- How might this be used as a notepad. It seems like a big aspect of it is the crossing-off of items?

- Does @tomorrow turn into @today in the document when a day has passed. Same w/ @today to @yesterday etc?

Otherwise, this app has really captured my interest.

I'm a bit overwhelmed by the interface though — coming from a simple list / to-do app where there aren't hierarchal levels displayed inline... I think the search/filter will definitely help with this but I may have to get used to it.

Edit: one more thought — i would like to be able to use the +person tagging but do not want to use Google Contacts (or device contacts for that matter, which isnt possible). I know I can use #name but would prefer the look of the +person as designed. (along the same lines, I wouldn't minde decoupling the app from Google at some point...)

Thanks for taking the time to learn more about Moo.do!

> What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header?

Sharing and collaboration works at a document level. I have a separate document if I need to collaborate with someone on a unique topic and have multiple top-level headers in a single document for broad organization within a single topic.

> How are notifications in the app (ios) incorporated. Do they notify based on "@date time" of item?

Each item that specifies a time of day using ‘@date time’ will get a notification 30 minutes before it is due. Items that do not have an exact time mentioned (like 3:00pm) will not cause a notification. [This is not currently working on iOS 8 and we have an update waiting for review.]

> How might this be used as a notepad. It seems like a big aspect of it is the crossing-off of items?

We’ve tried to keep the app as close to just editing text as possible. You can type like you would in Notepad or a Word/Google document with no problems. All of our features are there if you would like to use them but will stay out of your way if you don’t.

> Does @tomorrow turn into @today in the document when a day has passed. Same w/ @today to @yesterday etc?

Yes - we rollover dates that change meaning as the current day change. If you want to ‘pin’ an item to stay visible to you, you could set a priority on the item or mark it as @now or @soon.

We have plans to add additional sources of contacts (and other services) to the app. Having first and third party plugins for adding content and viewing data in different ways is a big part of our goal.

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. That all makes sense and is what I would have hoped to be the case.

I see below too that you've spent a lot of time on this — it definitely shows. I am already finding the keyboard shortcuts and text manipulation to exceed my expectations a web-app that's based on a giant free-form textbox.

A couple comments on the iOS app. I am running iOS 8 so maybe these are known issues awaiting an Apple approval... Both the keyboard and horizontal position in the stack seem to get stuck often.

An example to cause this would be to tap into an existing item while the keyboard is up to reposition the cursor ... if I pan right/left it'll start to pan the view left/right along with it which will persist once I'm done. Swiping left/right after this will keep this offset. The keyboard too also sticks to a certain degree in these position changes.

We appreciate the bug report, we will look into this for our next app release.

Let us know if we're missing any keyboard shortcuts that would be useful to you! My favorite one that got added recently (and as a result is currently undocumented) is using alt+shift+up/down arrows to move items around.

>>viewing data in different ways

Could you elaborate on that?

In addition to adding more services and content types accessible through Moo.do, we would like to add more ways to view that content.

So for example we currently have two ways of viewing your data within Moo.do (what we call a 'Normal Pane' and a 'Timeline Pane'. The 'Normal Pane' displays as a hierarchical text document. The 'Timeline Pane' displays your items ordered by due date and priority. Both of these operate on the same data but the end result is different.

Interesting. Can you give me some examples of possible views we can expect?

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