Thanks man!
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I tried so many apps, and was debating whether to build it myself. But it's impossible for me to build - no time and no creative juice left from my main job.
Email is just an odd case today since I was refunding an item. I usually want to focus on phrases everywhere, my yoga/pilates class, baseball team, sometimes TV, sometimes what I hear on a podcast, sometimes on a magazine, and get a detailed breakdown. It's not usually in formal, nor long.
I personally like both flash card directions because it allows me to practice how to write kanji for example instead of just recognizing, or in the context of phrases, it helps me practice active recalling rather than just passive recognition.
LLM question --> flashcards is exactly the workflow I want. I ask ChatGPT to do a lot of breakdowns of the grammar and the furigana and the words, being able to consolidate that with spaced reptition flash cards just makes a ton of sense. I don't know how hard it is to make this product really high quality, but happy to pre-pay you $10 for example no strings attached (I'm moved to Japan since 6 months ago)
I tried the app but on the first few attempts it gave an error 404 in console.
The example long paragraph I put in from an email gave me only 4 flashcards, two of them was on Arigatou, when I wanted to focus on the other words: ショップからの回答: [Re] 947912984 につきまして ご連絡ありがとうございます。 ご返送のお手配、誠にありがとうございます。 ご返送品が到着いたしましたら、再度ご連絡致します。 この度は、お手数、ご迷惑をお掛け致しまして誠に申し訳ございません。 恐れ入りますが、よろしくお願いいたします。
Also I couldn't figure out the UI initially, it took me like 10 seconds to think to try the "chat" feature to input into the LLM.
I used Google Calendar for 6 years, but found it hard to put small habits there, because everything takes up at least 15 minutes worth of space.
It was also hard to keep track of medium-term milestones that span across weeks & months, because they often involve waiting, unforeseen steps, following-up and failed attempts.
So since 2022, I spent my holidays building https://intentions.life
Apart from a free-scrolling calendar UI, it uses less space to display small tasks, and provides a “tree structure” to track multi-stage tasks.
I’ve been continuously testing & improving it. Now, my dad and I both use it every day - the app has given me a sense of wholistic clarity that I didn't have before.
You can see the in-depth demos without logging in directly on the "intentions.life" home page (computer recommended), or go to my profile and click the link there.
I hope you can try it, and tell me your honest feedback - I'll make future versions better.
I used Google Calendar for 6 years, but found it hard to put small habits there, because everything takes up at least 15 minutes worth of space.
It was also hard to keep track of medium-term milestones that span across weeks & months, because they often involve waiting, unforeseen steps, following-up and failed attempts.
So since 2022, I spent my holidays building https://intentions.life
Apart from a free-scrolling calendar UI, it uses less space to display small tasks, and provides a “tree structure” to track multi-stage tasks.
I’ve been continuously testing & improving it. Now, my dad and I both use it every day - the app has given me a sense of wholistic clarity that I didn't have before.
You can see the in-depth demos without logging in directly on the "intentions.life" home page (computer recommended), or go to my profile and click the link there.
I hope you can try it, and tell me your honest feedback - I'll make future versions better.
So I built intentions.life, my dad & I used it for 6 months now :^)
Apart from lots of common-sense improvements, it has 4 unconventional features: branching to-dos, reusable tasks, uncertain goals, and timely photos.
All demos are on the home page, no need to log-in
It's still a limited version, but the quality is stable. Appreciate BRUTALLY HONEST feedback if you're willing to give it :^), the app has changed and will keep changing a lot.
I was excited to see something new, but I want to really know if it's truly well-thought through to actually do anything / reserve / buy, which takes a lot more depth.
I know you provide the Cal Newport expert clips, but they're too long and not specific enough (I'll have to browse through a 2 hour long video) and are just talking about the problem, not the relative merits of the different solutions
Problem is the voice app’s export feature is only available on email. Technically I can copy the text and put it on Notion, but it’s so many clicks so I’ve been sending it to my own email. The essays are now dispersed in my inbox and I’m still dreading the day to collect them (the essays articulated important insights that were encouraging to me as a solo founder)
From now I will try sending emails to your API email address for my future voice essays, then organize them on your web UI