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what

Often a task changes, or new sub-tasks are introduced. I'm not done the task shown on screen, so I can't emotionally justify hiding it from view. For instance, i had a task which i thought was just about sending an email, but i later realized required another step before.

proposed solutions

1. Create a "not today!" button. I like this one a lot. If a user realizes there are other things they need to do before completing a task, they can basically "snooze" it for a day or a week, then create the other tasks they need to do today
2. Create "edit task" feature, to users can modify a task to the new requirement. They see something wrong so they update it.
3. Encourage users to hide any task they cannot do, and write a new task in its place. This increases cognitive load because it requires users to come up with a new self-affirmation to add a new task.

not sure if the use case is there aside from accidental submissions.

what

In case a user is hit with a wave of inspiration, they can save a flurry of self affirmations at once, to use later when submitting a new task.

why

Makes compliment generation easier and rewards moments of clarity to help get through difficult moments later on.

add it to Readme

what

Add a button or something to change a task status from 'finished' to 'active'

why

Prevent permanent mistakes

Mostly for in-app use. Devs can just check git log

Currently it's a separate element. It should be appended in js before putting it in the DOM, so that way there's no awkward whitespace between the end of the affirmation and the bang

Should be able to view all todo and nice data: create, read, update and delete

Bit of an admin dashboard I suppose

I've noticed that when i have a new thing I want to add, sometimes I'm annoyed that i have to think of a new self affirmation too, so i end up not adding it at all. For this reason issue # is even more important to reduce the barrier to come up w compliments.

I've also had moments of self disgust when opening the app and seeing a task isn't done already. For this reason it may be good to have comforting imagery as the first thing users see, rather than tasks to do

System

ios safari

Steps to reproduce

1. focus on a textarea in the Add form
2. leave the app (don't quit) via home button or app switcher

Result

Sometimes causes the app to freeze (become non-interactive) on returning to it. Alternatively, it's fine when you come back, but the focused textarea is missing :focus styling

since todo-date is no longer collected, i should hide or remove this functionality in the model and controller

This way the app can act as both safe haven and contribute to a secure base?

what

add content saying what this does, why I made it

possibly new page, or on the home page

why

so people know what this does, and why they should care

what

expanding on solution 1 in #25 , perhaps it would be useful for users to be able to switch contexts from "work" tasks to "around the house" tasks. I could give them a toggle to only view work or only view home tasks, and a corresponding field in the add form.

why

This solves an issue of temporal contextual priority. However, I'm inclined to believe the purpose of the app is helping users get anything done rather than specific things. So, I'm not sure if this fits the mission

this was an insight I got from the alpha UX survey

Theory to help users write compliments

I don't want to lean in too heavily to prompts, as the struggle to generate self-affirmations is an import part of growth. But for people who are not practiced in coming up with self-affirmations, this could be a good jumping off point. I'm not totally sure about this, but I'll put my ideas here anyway

• increased specificity == recognition is easier than recall
• empathy/outside perspective
• recent events are easier to access
• focus on compliments and task completion

Prompt ideas

• What compliment would your best friend say?
• If your pet/stuffed animal could talk, what compliment would they say?
• What compliment might your coworkers/clients say?
• Have you made any tasty food recently?
• Have you made any cool art recently?
• Have you done something recently that you've been putting off for a while?
• Is there a habit you've been maintaining that you're proud of?
• Have you worn any cool outfits recently?
• Did you contribute something to your community recently?
• Have you done anything socially draining recently?
• Did you do a favor for someone recently?

This issue is used for assets to serve on the README. do not delete this issue

If a user refreshes more than 2x the number of items in their queue, or min. 6x, they're probably not in the right frame of mind to be productive, and I should suggest they take a break and provide some of the comforting content i need to develop

I want to encourage users seeing more affirmations, so if there is one being shown that they aren't identifying with in the moment, they can get a new one while keeping the current task on screen

These multipliers should increase the likelihood that a given 'todo' is shown.

Should say "I completed this todo" or equivalent label