Tigger
Dev tools
task manager
SHOW HN2011
How HN took it
8 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Design: 2 for, 4 againstIdea: 4 for, 1 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea that people say they need.
From 3 comments
First, this is a really cool idea, and something that I need. Second, at the risk of disrupting the author's groove (and further belaboring the established criticism of the…
cdata on HNWhere have you been all my life?
andrewguenther on HNDespite the name of the project being potentially bad, I think the project itself is awesome. How do I list tasks though?
pspeter3 on HN
Objections
Name is a children's character and may draw trademark concerns.
From 2 comments
I think it's a bad idea to name your project after a very, very popular childrens' character and then go 1 step further and use the same color scheme for your page. 1, It's going…
wccrawford on HNConsider: even if your interpretation were legally correct, what matters is your ability to convince a court to say so when Disney sues you. That's probably an enormous expense…
msbarnett on HN
Tasks are marked complete by matching commit messages, which is inflexible.
From 1 comment
So no matter how many tasks I create as soon as I commit all of them are going to be marked as completed? If that's the case, It's not for me. I want to create a bunch of tasks…
ya3r on HN
Written in C without good reason; depends on Ruby and Grit.
From 1 comment
Well, I don't see any good reason to write this in C. The operations performed are very basic, and it only obscures what you're doing. Further, your program relies on Ruby and…
oinksoft on HN
Requests
Support git-style command aliasing like git task.
From 2 comments
First, this is a really cool idea, and something that I need. Second, at the risk of disrupting the author's groove (and further belaboring the established criticism of the…
cdata on HNI'm not sure but I think he meant creating an alias, such as git task. For instance, your commands could be: git task list git task new "Fix homepage styling" That can be…
andredieb on HN
Reference tasks by short text or numeric id.
From 1 comment
Another suggestion: - one should be able to reference tasks by multiple means: full text, short text, numeric id - also vote for transparent TODO support - integration with…
VMG on HN
Mark tasks complete interactively before committing.
From 1 comment
I don't like having to specify the task in the comment, simply because the risk of typos. It would be nicer if I could issue a command prior to committing that would let me flag…
giberson on HN
Support a human-editable TODO file.
From 1 comment
A few other comments: - You might want to drop object files, backup files and the like from your repo. - The limitation to 255 chars is weird. Not sure if C was the best tool for…
a3_nm on HN
Questions
How does sharing tasks work across a repo?
From 1 comment
So how does sharing work? Is it a separate branch? or tag? P.S: I'm new to git.
ya3r on HN
What license does the code use?
From 1 comment
This seems pretty neat. Two questions: - why "sudo make"? Wouldn't it be cleaner to separate the compilation part and the installation part, and only run the second one as root…
a3_nm on HN
Alternatives named
Taskwarrior
From 2 comments
Ooooh, you're about two months too late for me! If I hadn't discovered taskwarrior a few months back I would be all over this, though I must admit having all my tasks in git is…
alinajaf on HNThis seems pretty neat. Two questions: - why "sudo make"? Wouldn't it be cleaner to separate the compilation part and the installation part, and only run the second one as root…
a3_nm on HN
Todo.txt
From 1 comment
Having a Git history of my tasks is nice, but this is functionally equivalent to Gina Trapani's Todo.txt (todotxt.com) CLI app/mobile app, which uses Dropbox rather than Git to…
mcrider on HN
git-issues
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool. Not to steal dan's thunder, but there is a similar project called git-issues that uses a separate branch instead of a dot file. Might be an approach worth…
_neil on HN
t (stevelosh)
From 1 comment
Looks a lot like my little task manager, t: http://stevelosh.com/projects/t/ You can integrate t with Mercurial through a shell alias: ``` [alias] task = !python /path/to/t.py…
stevelosh on HN