Thread by @visakanv

sometimes I think about making a todo app 😂

"but visa there are literally 9999 todo apps"

yea and none of them do what I want

https://twitter.com/dohertyjf/status/1315810279092092928

it probably wouldn't be simple tho. idk it feels indulgent to even think about thinking about

I would say

compare the average person's twitter style vs my twitter style

and you get a sense of the difference between the average todo app, and the kind of todo app I would make, if I knew how to do it

I did a thread that's kind of about the last time. I'd probably call the app "Bricks". bricks dot io or whatever idk

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1197610956810936326

I experimented with a sort of clunky google sheets experiment – the cool thing is even now I can click on each block and there's the link to the twitter threads I wrote that day, which is a good way of managing threads. and the youtube vids i uploaded

do you see what I'm seeing? you should be able to zoom in and out, like simcity, and see your bricks at various levels of scale. you should be able to see days, weeks, months of bricks

technically you could probably kinda sorta do some version of this with google cal maybe

a big part of why I've been able to write almost 130,000 tweets is bc it feels like a game where I'm constantly building something. adding to something. I'd like to do that with my todo items. I don't just wna tick boxes, I want to build a city that I can vizualize and navigate

an important thing is this has to be blisteringly fast. twitter fast. any lag and I won't feel like using it. there are some things google sheets are difficult to make do (and maybe I just dont know the right sheets wizardry), like "show only X tasks" and so on

like, re: your current todo app: can you instantly pull out a list of all the movies you've watched, or all the books you've read, along with when you did them, + with micro-notes in each block with [[links]] to relevant material?

maybe you could work it into roam...

there was one person who I feel was developing the idea of the tiny little square as an interface... – ollybot – and he deleted his twitter account. here is a network graph of my tweets. you can mouseover each square to see the tweet

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1265201505725894656

hurts so bad... just want ollybot back... to build me a todo app / roam interface... something

maybe somebody will figure out like a roam extension or something that does something like this, it does feel like it's not too far off

circling back – I think I'd like this to also simultaneously function as a sort of master timeline. when you zoom out you should be able to est. things years into the future. if it takes you 1 yr to write a book, you shd be able to click-drag... and see that u have 60 books left

ok so this is a really cool example of

1. a beautiful use of lots of tiny dots and mouseovers as an interface

2. annoyingly tedious bloat in the interface, which wastes valuable seconds of time. this adds up into agony

https://twitter.com/impactology/status/1288774322237005824