All-in-one Productivity App

[yohannd1]

NOTE: This issue is still being developed. Feel free to add more ideas here!

Project Description

An "ultimate" productivity application that unites the most known productivity systems (I think that it's the name) in a single place. Some of them are:

• To-do List
• Kanban Board
• Pomodoro Time Tracker
• Note-taking (supporting markdown)
• Calendar
• Journal / Diary
• Habit Tracking And others...

The Interface

1. Computers / Tablets On computers and tablets, it could have an option to change between a Github Tabs Style or a Sidebar/Drawer Style. Each tab / sidebar button could lead to one section (see below some section ideas). The overall design (blur, shading etc.) could be based on the OS design itself, but still having some of the guidelines.

2. Smartphones Both iOS and Android combine with bottom navigations, so there could be a basic use of it - 3 tabs (by default): home, upcoming and settings. They can be customized, either in amount (up to 5 or 6) and in what tabs. But there also could be a sidebar, because not all of the sections will be in the bottom bar.

3. Wear Devices (I don't know how to do this properly.)

Section Ideas:

• Home: By default, the default section when opening the app on any platform. It shows a dashboard with customizable widgets, that can show specific notes, reminders or other things.
• Inbox / Drops: The user can drop everything here, from ideas to tasks.
• Calendar: View all the upcoming events, tasks and snoozed items in a year, month, week, 3/4-day, day or list view.
• To-Dos: All tasks, with sub-sections for each task list.
  • Task Lists: Groups of tasks.
  • Areas: Like on Things 3, projects and task lists can be grouped there.
  • Task Nesting: The tasks can be nested (one inside another).
• Projects: Each project is a dedicated screen where notes, images and other things can be put inside, in the style of post-its (like Google Keep) or list (like Evernote, Todoist or Notion).
• [EXTRA] Customize Sections: The user could arrange the order of the sections, hide some of them and even create ones, with widgets or filters for showing things inside them. The user could also change the custom sections' icons.

Other Features

• Custom Themes - The users could use default themes, create their own (via a file or a dedicated interface inside the app) or download from the internet. Custom icons could be good too.
• Custom Templates - The users could create templates for notes, task lists etc.
• Modules - With this, any part of the app (sync, gamification, to-do, notes, habits etc.) can be turned on or off easily.
• Gamification - XP, Levels, Skills and other things that are common in RPG games could be added to the system. (Note: This part was mostly inspired by the Android app LifeRPG.)
  • Missions - Triggers defined by the user (like created task/note, completed task, completed task in specific list, completed an habit, completed all tasks for that day, completed an specific amount of tasks in that day/week). Everything could be seen in a interface with progress bars and etc.
  • Levels and XP - Completing missions can give an specific amount of XP (defined by the user), and with that they can level up. The levels have a specific algorithm, but it can be edited by the user if he/she wants.
  • Rewards - The user could create rewards costing an specific amount of points (that came from completing missions). Not so likely to be useful, though.
  • Skills - Completing a mission/task related to certain skill could give it XP and gradually level it up.
• Sync - An ability to sync with a FTP server, or a popular online storage service (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox etc.). Great feature to sync between, for example, tablet, phone and computer.
• Backups - Backup all the data from the application.
  • Scheduled Backups - The user could schedule a weekly, monthly backup and/or set specific dates to do so.
• Snooze - The ability to snooze any task, note or event.

I think that this idea is too complex to put everything here...

Relevant Technology

It could be avaliable in all modern operating systems. Some of them are:

• Windows (Both Executable and UWP)
• Android
  • Also Android Wear and Auto
• Linux Desktop
• iOS
• Mac
• WatchOS
• FreeBSD If you have an idea of more platforms to add, please tell me and I'll add here.

I don't know any specific programming languages great to recommend for each platform, though.

Complexity and required time

Complexity

• [ ] Beginner - This project requires no or little prior knowledge of the technolog(y|ies) specified to contribute to the project
• [ ] Intermediate - The user should have some prior knowledge of the technolog(y|ies) to the point where they know how to use it, but not necessarily all the nooks and crannies of the technology
• [x] Advanced - The project requires the user to have a good understanding of all components of the project to contribute

Required time (ETA)

• [ ] Little work - A couple of days
• [ ] Medium work - A week or two
• [x] Much work - The project will take more than a couple of weeks and serious planning is required

[KOLANICH]

I guess it is better to have them as separate apps, not as a single one, but unified using OS middleware (s.a. Android permissions to access calendar and tasks) and app-defined permissions, if needed.

[yohannd1]

Yeah, I think that works better.

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I guess it is better to have them as separate apps, not as a single one, but unified using OS middleware (s.a. Android permissions to access calendar and tasks) and special permissions, if needed.

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[Thrilleratplay]

What about something like Sandstorm

[yohannd1]

@Thrilleratplay yeah, the Marketplace is a good idea. But a "problem" (in this case, I think) about the Sandstorm platform is that you need to host the system somewhere as a server. A file storage (like Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive) can't be used.

[yohannd1]

Accidentaly closed the issue, sorry.

[Kreijstal]

and integrte it with your phone, and smartwatch? and alexa?!?!

[yohannd1]

Integrating with the phone and smartwarch? Yes. But.... I don't know about Alexa, I think that virtual assistants are more complex if you don't use a server.

[KOLANICH]

About assistants: https://github.com/DeskChan/DeskChan

[sponger94]

I really like this idea, however not everything may fit to one app. I would like to suggest an idea of using Kanban to achieve goals and an ability to use multiple tables for achieving daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly etc. goals. Each goal then could be separated into smaller tasks and time tracked using pomodoro. All of that can be done in KanbanFlow.

But here is the thing: I dunno why you guys are up to make it an offline app. As a web developer, I would suggest to make it a web app, where people can invite their friends, share their progress, compete with other and find like-minded people. As an example see SmartProgress.

If this would be a web app - we could then split it to a micro-services for each individual feature and we would have an ability to deliver each feature independently. Also since developing a native app for each platform is super expensive, it might be a better idea to make phone apps as a webview based.

[yohannd1]

@KOLANICH but how could this integrate with an app?

@sponger94 the problem of the web app is the host. As an open source app, I can only think of a self-hostable system. I don't know if it could work being hosted not by the user. But maybe it could follow the Sandstorm model: being self-hosted or hosted by the Sandstorm team. Also, at least on Android I didn't have a great experience with webview based apps, but it is still worth trying.

[sagarpatke]

notion.so

[Kreijstal]

notion.so

not open source

[VAJRESH]

Anyone interested to work with me to create something similar. I have been thinking of creating something similar for myself and was researching existing tools which offers solutions to this.

You can check this out https://www.opensourcealternative.to/alternatives-to/Notion.

I like affine and anytype.

You can reach out to me via LinkedIn and we can build something amazing