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Cheddar
A new simple to do list that instantly pushes changes to all of your devices. Cheddar supports Markdown and has tags. A free universal iPhone/iPad app and web app were just released.
- citricsquid 14y agoA web interface? Hurrah! I don't like typing on my iPhone but find it handy for storing information (eg: shopping lists) and when I went through trying to find apps I couldn't locate any with a web interface so I would have to type on my phone... I eventually gave up trying to find one. Feedback specific to the website: If a user hasn't downloaded one of the apps yet have the "apps" link from the footer in a more prominent place. I didn't notice it at first and wondered how to find the app links. Also the ability to login via the website would nice, so after logging in I scan a QR code and it logs me in on my phone too, typing out my password on my phone is an annoyance.
- andrethegiant 14y agoIf you view the page on iOS 6 beta, an app banner appears at the top of the page, linking to the app store.
- peterhajas 14y agoLooks really great. I love the idea behind instantly keeping things up to date on all devices. I can't wait to try the Mac App mentioned on the Support page - https://cheddarapp.com/support https://cheddarapp.com/support. I hope it fits in a small horizontal space, so that it can be always open (much like a Twitter client). Good looking stuff. Excited to see if I can incorporate it into my workflow.
- antr 14y ago+1 on the Mac App. Looks like Cheddar is going to replace Wunderlist for me. 6Wunderkinder haven't updated their iPad app in ages, and the non-retina graphics makes their product unattractive.
- jonny_eh 14y agoNo trademark issues with CheddarGetter?
- john-n 14y agoMaybe tweak volume on video? (cant hear it)
- zoul 14y agoDear God no, yet another pimped-up todo list? What does it do that the others don’t?
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- btipling 14y agoWhen pg used a todo list as an example app to challenge email, this was to be expected. A million todo apps everywhere. People have so little imagination.
- guynamedloren 14y agoI don't think pg is to blame for this... todo list apps are inherently simple to design and build. If anything, they're a great 'first app' for new or aspiring developers, so a marketplace flooded with (many shitty) todo apps is not surprising.
- OzzyB 14y agoIndeed. And the second is a Time Tracking app followed by a Project Management app.
- pmelendez 14y agoHe (PG) was talking about a new protocol that allow people to share tasks and control how many tasks they can have. Not a simple TODO list though. I don't think this is suppose to be an email killer. If they are doing this because of what PG said then I am afraid they might misunderstood him.
- btipling 14y agoApparently the author turned down a job offer to work on this full time: http://samsoff.es/posts/staying-strong http://samsoff.es/posts/staying-strong I applaud the effort and entrepreneurial spirit and even the quality of the UI work. I'd question the judgement when there are so many to-do apps out there already.
- erickhill 14y agoI must have tried over 10 different apps for keeping track of simple notes and tasks. I finally landed on Evernote (and emailing myself) mostly due to the sync issues across multiple devices. If this works similarly without all of the extra whistles and bells, I'd be pretty happy. The nice clean interface is encouraging.
- induscreep 14y agoTry Producteev
- Zaheer 14y agoHow many task manager apps do we need? I've seen a huge influx of these apps recently. Nevertheless great UI!
- andrewcamel 14y agoTotally agree -- it'd be great to get a product comparison on the site to see some feature differentiation laid out. Except for the nice UI, it looks like just another to-do app.
- novakinblood 14y agoLooks simple and clean but I already use "remember the milk" to do the same thing. The landing page doesn't give enough convincing arguments to pull me away.
- blackRust 14y agoExactly what I was going to say. RTM has been around for a while and integrates with a lot more devices, they are committed to maintaining their Apps and provide much more functionality for power users with saved searches etc. Link: https://www.rememberthemilk.com/ https://www.rememberthemilk.com/
- gklitt 14y agoI'm a happy RTM user as well. This doesn't look like it does anything better, although I guess for people who don't need the more advanced features of RTM it's a good alternative.
- zethraeus 14y agoThey're only undercutting RTM my $5/year, which doesn't seem likely to be incentive enough for many people. Remember the Milk also has better device support. I'm pretty unclear on the value prop.
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- RegEx 14y agoI'm a big RTM fan myself, although I'm honestly not too pleased with their latest UI update on the iPhone. It's prettier, but not as snappy.
- novakinblood 14y agoI agree about the UI update. It looks nice but feels clunky and I get disoriented with all the swiping. It's too "swipey".
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- nik61 14y agoGoogle Tasks has covered this piece for some time? Not much recent development there it's true - hash tags would be a nice (and obvious) addition. Does anyone know if Google has forgotten about this useful application?
- eragnew 14y agoThis looks great. Will try it out for iphone.
- dag11 14y agoThere is much incentive for you to make an Android version of Cheddar, too. The reason why is there's already plenty of similar task apps for iOS, but good task management apps are lacking on Android.
- shahidhussain 14y agoAny.do not work for you? http://www.any.do/ http://www.any.do/
- dag11 14y agoAny.do works fairly well. I like its Chrome extension. However, its syncing is very delayed, which bothers me.
- juliano_q 14y agoHave you tried Tasks? I used Any.do, it is good but I like Tasks better. Maybe you should give it a shot. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.teamtasks.tasks.paid&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNoLnRlYW10YXNrcy50YXNrcy5wYWlkIl0 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.teamtasks.t....
- spne 14y agoIs there any way to add a date or deadline to a task? I've been having issues with Wunderlist syncing between devices, but due dates are key.
- jamesjyu 14y agoSmall nit: on the bottom phone, the text "Simple, just text" is horribly kerned. Otherwise, the product page looks great!
- ryantownsend 14y agoAnd randomly a different serif font. The line-height on the actual app's UIToolbar title is a bit too much too, should be slightly higher up, imo.
- davidradcliffe 14y agoNo official Android app in the works. https://twitter.com/cheddar/status/218385506533249027 https://twitter.com/cheddar/status/218385506533249027
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- kefs 14y ago> <strong>pushes to all of your devices</strong> iDevices you mean.
- SpikeX 14y agoThere's never any Windows Phone love... sigh...
- heretohelp 14y agoThere's never any NetBSD clients for the apps I like... sigh
- ibotty 14y ago... and what about palm pilot (or zaurus, n900)
- mahmud 14y agoZ-Shell for TI-85!
- reddit_clone 14y ago>zaurus Brings back memories. I used to work on some of these devices for desktop sync. (With Schedule+ no less. Damn, that dates me) I have seen some Japan only devices with fabulous color screens. They were way ahead of their time.
- huhtenberg 14y agoHear, hear. No love for my toaster.
- Me1000 14y agoNo. Cheddar also works in browsers, so any device with a browser can run cheddar and it pushes it to ALL your devices.
- mertd 14y ago
- encima 14y agoThis is nothing new, there are a ton of good task syncing apps. What makes this apple-specific app so much better? Oh, wait.
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- callmeed 14y agoIf any app category needed a parody video and site, it's to-do lists and productivity. Time to charge the camera batteries.
- jgrahamc 14y agoI'll add it to Yellow Yellow's TODO list for when they come out of double stealth: http://doublestealth.blogspot.com http://doublestealth.blogspot.com
- rstevenson542 14y ago+++ That article is absolutely hilarious
- J3L2404 14y ago"Currently we're in double stealth mode (the public doesn't know what we're building and neither do we)." Fun read.
- samarudge 14y agoWhile it's always nice to have a pretty frontend, why not use Google Apps or Exchange reminders as a backend? Yet another account, yet another site, disconnected and needing individual management. I use Exchange reminders, to set it up I just add my Exchange account to my iPhone or Outlook and it's done. It's not pretty but I don't have to remember another site
- andrewguenther 14y agoSeems almost identical to Fetchnotes, but with worse device support.
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- techx2501 14y agoOr Gmail Tasks
- __mark__ 14y agoAnother TODO list app? When I looked at the website it seemed like the main value proposition was that my TODO list will be everywhere. Countless apps already do this though so I don't understand how this one is better.
- sammcd 14y agoCongrats on launching Sam!
- samsoffes 14y agoThanks Sam :)
- alaskamiller 14y agoHackers love to make todo lists. It's like some musicians' work remixing pop songs.
- mikeryan 14y agoIronically I've yet to find an online todo list I like. My favorite todo list is a pad and a pen, next to my computer. I've not found a feature set in an online tool that works better for me.
- genwin 14y agoAfter too many years typing I can barely write, so it's Notepad or Wordpad for me.
- bradwestness 14y agoThey're basically just Hello World apps for persistent data.
- mnicole 14y agoOnly allows me the ability to create two lists for free? I'm not going to pay for a service that can be replaced by Post-Its and the bevy of other services/apps that do the same thing. Inability to sync lists with other users is another reason. Friendly UI but that's about it. Additionally - Product Marketing 101: If you're competing in a space with [hundreds of] others just like you, you need to have a shortlist of reasons why to choose yours over the others before just dropping people into it. You should also account for the amount of people visiting your site when you launch so it isn't crawling when people try to sign up for it. I'm trying to traverse the site right now to find where I can see a compare-and-contrast of similar tools and it is useless. Also just noticed the icon is basically Clear's -- another list/to-do app -- is that intentional? Surely we can find better ways of illustrating lists than using a checkmark so people don't get confused.
- Terretta 14y agoPlus, Reminders with its default list on (free) iCloud "magically" syncs with all your (Apple) devices. Reminders adds geo fencing, recurrence, and other great features. It's a surprisingly well designed competitor in this space. Couple that with Fantastical on the Mac menu bar which now shows those same iCloud Reminders and you have a slick solution.
- thom 14y ago+1 for delicious cheese.
- donerKebab 14y agoLet me guess, you're American. Not that cheddar can't be a good cheese, but on the other side of the pond, cheddar is really the most basic cheese.
- thom 14y agoI'm from the UK, and good, mature cheddar is wonderful cheese, 'basic' or not. :P
- thom 14y agoI did wonder why the app was orange, though, so I assume that's a symptom of the American cheese gap.
- tjr 14y agoWe here on this side are unfortunately accustomed to cheese far more basic than cheddar (some of which are arguably even cheese at all)... But superlative or not, I do greatly enjoy a quality sharp cheddar.
- munaf 14y agoStartup request: Please, someone come up with a todo/productivity/project management system whose main feature is _motivation_ to use it, not just technical versions of paper todo lists. I don't know if the solution is necessarily technical. I've tried every major app and still rely on the visceral impact of post-it notes next to my computer to get things done. I'd love to switch to an app but nothing is actually making me use one.
- amwelles 14y agoI've not used it, but I have friends who really enjoy [Epic Win](http://www.rexbox.co.uk/epicwin/ http://www.rexbox.co.uk/epicwin/). On the downside, it doesn't sync and is only available on iOS.
- wam 14y agoBooks I'd read: "Wanting to Get Things Done"
- chetan51 14y agoI have just the thing for you. It's an app called TimeBend: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timebend/id525224894?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timebend/id525224894?mt=8 Be sure to read the app description before you download, so you know how to use it correctly. It's simple, but really gets you motivated to get things done on time.
- brandoncapecci 14y agoInteresting you bring this up... I was working on one for awhile that hard a sort of social karma system built in. I wanted to try and reenforce people creating tasks in a game environment rather than just through self-motivation. You were awarded points for completing tasks and able to view accumulated points of friends. I hoped this would allow just a bit more accountability since all your friends can see that you just sat on your ass all day. Same sort of idea of the scale that tweets your weight. There really was no good way I had come up with to make a fair scoring system and to defer cheating. Had I finished it, what it definitely wouldn't have been is anything like this app which makes me feels very detached. I honestly think todos should be fun, otherwise most people won't stick with them. For the record, this was just one of the smallest projects I could think of to learn a new technology. I think the space sucks but that's largely because everybody does exactly the same thing. It's kind of funny that I couldn't bring myself to work on something that stale even if it was just for me to see.
- sophacles 14y agoSweet, it's completely useless! I can't dump a task from command line or vim. Can't script it to pull things to the calendar automatically. Can't send an email to put a task directly into it. Can't dump tasks to a text todo list to put at the top of the code or document im writing to remember what I need as I write. Will not use. And, even if those features show up, won't consider due to lack basic thought in initial design. I've said before and I'll say it again: todo's are a functionality that are only useful when broadly accessible from many different apps and contexts. Your app (for any your) is mostly useless to me. Edit: I don't get all the hate this post is receiving. Is it because I didn't wrap it in sugar? Is it because I listed the things I would actually consider paying for? Or is it just because I'm disagreeing with some startup and that's against the local religion?
- pmelendez 14y agoIMHO I think this phrase is part of the reason behind downvotes "Sweet, it's completely useless!" It is a strong statement and it is probably subjective. What it is useless for you might not be for someone else. You did fixed after... " is mostly useless to me." but I think was too late. "I don't get all the hate this post is receiving. ". The post itself feels like a lot of hatred behind him. Maybe it is getting the same medicine?
- sophacles 14y agoI should probably clarify that last bit then: I still think cheddar is useless, because it doesn't provide the functionalities I declare. I meant, that in a hypothetical todo app that has those features, the official released app is still mostly useless to me.
- antiterra 14y agoFirst, saying it's completely useless is complete hyperbole. You can enter to do items through an application or web interface. That is a use. It may not be a novel use or a use that interests you in any way, but it's still a use. It's a disappointing fact, but the truth is that command line integration, scripting or a public API are not particularly mainstream features in an app. Next, it would seem pretty fanatical to say "this app does everything I want to, but because the features weren't there in the first version, I refuse to use it." If the new functionality is well-integrated and not simply shoe-horned in, would does the first version of the product have any relevance at all?
- stephanimal 14y agoI would just like to note, that as a human I can only store a finite number of passwords in my brain and would love if web apps like these would at least provide OAuth with another identity provider (gmail, etc.) as an option.
- wildmXranat 14y agoWhere's Clippy when you need it to tell you to hit backspace when writing yet another todo list app.
- ken 14y agoGiven the recent exploits of other popular web services, I'm curious to hear a bit more about your security model. The privacy policy makes it sound as though all non-credit-card info is transmitted and stored in plaintext.
- jenius 14y agoSomething really bothers me about the design of this app... definitely not trying to be a hater here, but the color, font, spacing... everything seems a little off to me.
- knurdle 14y agoAlways in Sync Instantly Everywhere* *Except Android, Windows mobile, etc..
- samsoffes 14y agoBrowsers are everywhere :)
- ntkachov 14y agoOut of all the todo apps I've tried. Every time I go back to writing shit on a white board. I've timed myself. IT takes me about 6 seconds to write something on a whiteboard. And about 10 to take a picture of it with my phone. Compare that to the 20+ it takes for me to pull out my phone, open an app, get into the list I want, and then type it out on a shitty little keyboard. Until you make a note taking app that takes less time to use than a white board, I'm gonna use the whiteboard.
- bradwestness 14y agoI always end up falling back to a combination of Google Tasks (because it's on iGoogle, which is my homepage) and just writing stuff on a legal pad. If I'm out and about, I'll just text it to Google Calendar.
- J3L2404 14y ago"Siri make me a reminder to delete all my to-do apps." "Ok, making your reminder."
- xtractinator 14y ago"Siri make me a reminder to delete all my to-do apps." "Ok, you're now a rain-dear caught in the headlights."
- cool-RR 14y agoIt takes me around 4 seconds to type in a task with MyLifeOrgainzed. (Can be 2-3 seconds for short tasks.) No need to open the app, it's always open, just press a shortcut key to bring up a dialog for adding a task.
- huhtenberg 14y agoWow... that's one really ugly UI. http://www.mylifeorganized.net/i/sshots/myLife-ssh012.gif http://www.mylifeorganized.net/i/sshots/myLife-ssh012.gif
- changdizzle 14y agoi think this is great - few questions for you: - is there any way to altogether delete tasks? looks like you can only archive - are there any plans to have an osx app? i was just looking for something like this yesterday for my MBP
- julian55 14y agoI thought this was going to be about cheese but it's just another to do list.
- brandoncapecci 14y agoTo-do app: Yawn. Stupid name: double yawn. There has only been one moderately innovative app in this space and it was Clear. Clearly, the space is now beyond saturated.
- modarts 14y agoThis is really great timing: I woke up this morning thinking "You know what I really need? Another todo app!"
- shanev 14y agoThe design of this app looks awesome, but I don't think we need more todo apps in the App Store. I have a huge list of app ideas with not enough time to implement all of them. Every few weeks I see one of my ideas, done by someone else, hit the top 25 of the App Store. If you're a talented developer there's much more creative things you could be buliding.
- huhtenberg 14y agoSeriously, Sam. Reword the brief to not say "magical". It's annoying at best and insulting at worst. If it were ticking off "get milk" when you put a new carton of milk in a fridge, that could've passed for magical. Doing an auto background sync is not, you are late by few years.
- cpocpo 14y agoIt's ironic that he uses "magical" when his company is called Nothing Magical.
- FuzzyDunlop 14y agoIt might actually be magical, if you [mis-]read this: It's just text. Type in the box. Press return. Done. I'd love to complete all my tasks by typing in a box and pressing return.
- revorad 14y agoThe comments on this thread are such an embarrassment. Someone's worked hard on something for months, and people go and piss all over it. If you don't think this is a useful or good app, you don't even have to look at it. Just pass. At least when someone launches a product, if you don't have anything encouraging or constructive to say, it's best not to say anything. It seems HN is suffering more and more from the "Why wasn't I consulted?" angst - http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html
- mnicole 14y agoWhy is honest criticism not allowed? Don't you want to know why people are averse to your service so you can perfect it, no less directly from the people who would pay for it?
- nalidixic 14y agoThere's a difference between honest criticism and bashing someones hard work. 75% of the comments on this post are not honest criticism.
- mnicole 14y agoWith no-bullshit audiences that tell it like it is, you sometimes need to read between the lines. I'm not condoning the behavior, but it is not foreign to HN and something to consider before posting here.
- barbs 14y agoWhat gets me, is that all this hard work could be put into something way more useful. Instead it's wasted trying to re-invent the wheel. This app offers hardly anything if not nothing new.
- glanch 14y agoIt's because we're tired of seeing a new to-do list app every day. They always have a cutesy name and fancy design and pretentious branding. At this point, a to-do app is a nice project for someone learning to program, nothing more. We don't need 100 to-do list apps. They all suck. Paper and pencil still wins. Typing on a smartphone sucks, and will always suck. I don't care that it automatically syncs to my laptop or my desktop or my goddamn toilet.
- gyardley 14y agoThe 'oh no, not another todo list' comments on this are hilarious - and I suspect Sam will get also get a kick out of them, as he deposits his checks. Sam, congratulations on your launch.
- rvid 14y agoHere's what I'd like to see - A Todo app, calendar and goal tracker all rolled in one, with a clean UI and multi-platform sync. That's all the productivity I need!
- fcoury 14y agoAnyone else experiencing a lot of bugs with Cheddar? I mark an item done on my iPhone, web UI doesn't sync. Now I create a new list, it doesn't show. Still early stage?
- rane 14y agoApp store reviews sound like they've been solicited.
- kennywinker 14y agoLooks pretty similar to my current fav: http://teuxdeux.com/ http://teuxdeux.com/
- SwellJoe 14y agoI have a "todo" email in my drafts folder in GMail, I've been using this method for years, and it has always synched up across all of my devices. I used to do it with my regular IMAP email, which worked on my Sidekick, so this process goes back nearly a decade. I've tried using stuff like Remember The Milk, because people love it so much, but it just doesn't give me any benefit and I have to internalize a new process, setup all my machines, etc. The same is true of Evernote. Email drafts are searchable and available on all my devices, so I just keep my notes there, too. If I wanted to get fancy, I could make a folder just for todo lists and one for notes. But, I rarely have more than one active list at a time, and notes being searchable makes it easy to find the one I need when I need it.
- choxi 14y agoI know there's a ton of todo apps out there, I've tried Remember the Milk, Evernote, Wunderlist, Reminders.app, and probably a couple other iOS todo apps. I picked Wunderlist and have used that for a long time because it's on every platform I care about (iPhone, iPad, and Mac) BUT it's absolutely horrible about syncing content and I get duplicates and missing todos all the time. I just tried out cheddar's "push" feature and it's actually enough for me to leave Wunderlist. Also the Markdown feature is awesome
- rubergly 14y agoAm I the only one who sees a clear, functional difference between "todo" and "list" apps? Todo apps: Any.do, Orchestra, 2Do, Do It Tomorrow, TeuxDeux List apps: Clear, Cheddar, Listary I always keep one of each one my phone, because they serve entirely different purposes. While they both work by storing lists, there's a big difference for me between tasks and items in a list. When I'm tracking tasks, I want things organized based on timeframes (maybe also assigning priorities, due dates, or categories), and an interface designed around that principle is always going to do that better; you could use Clear or Cheddar to store "Today", "Tomorrow", and "Soon" lists, but that's a poor hack. When I'm simply maintaining a list of things to remember (e.g., grocery list, debts to friends, items I need to buy after moving, songs to buy, 100 push-ups program), all I want is several (separate) lists with items I can add, edit, rearrange, and delete. I currently use Any.do as my tasks app and Clear as my list app. I really like the design of both of them, but I have reservations of both. Any.do takes a very nice approach of sorting tasks into bins of Today, Tomorrow, This Week, and Later, but aggressively bubbles tasks up (the idea is nice if Tomorrow tasks moved into Today after a day, and This Week into Tomorrow after 6 days, and Later always stayed in Later, but I've had to push the same tasks back into Later and This Week 4+ times per week). Clear lacks syncing of any kind -- this is extremely frustrating because it could easily hook into something like SimpleNote. I really like the focus on syncing from Cheddar, but I have major reservations about the subscription concept (even though experience shows that I move between these apps frequently and will likely not need to pay for many months, a subscription feels like a significant investment whereas a <$5 app doesn't), and I find myself missing Any.do and Clear's gestures.
- dhucerbin 14y agoIf you like apps with nice interface based on gestures check 30/30. In this app you create tasks and asign time for them. Something like pomodoro technique but time may vary. [I downloaded any.do - like it!]
- phil 14y agoI don't understand the hate in the comments. Two things: 1) The simplest applications are still hard to polish this much. In fact, simple things can often hide some of the hardest design choices. 2) Three years ago, Twitter apps were the UI design playground of choice. Now that they've told everyone not to write new clients, UI experimentation has shifted to other applications. Compare Cheddar to Clear, for example. Both are nominally to-do lists, both have carefully thought out custom interfaces, but they express very different philosophies about software design.
- badabadam 14y agoHOORAY!! Another magincal, spectacular, one of a kind, amazing, beautiful, fabulous, all-synching, to-do-list task! Next up is the world peace I say.
- damian2000 14y agoYAFTDL (yet another effing to-do list).