u/JesusVKilmer

I've been building and rebuilding this for a while and am finally happy with the fundamentals. Custom sync engine with data store backed by CRDTs. And yes I use AI a lot but wouldn't call this vibe coded.

I've learned that I mostly need as little cognitive overhead as possible to input, sort, clarify, remind & complete (or delete). So no gimmicks here - most of the big productivity apps are pretty good if you know how to use them.

The main motivations behind building it are - own my own data + no subscription + minimal + fast.

Roadmap is roughly:

Notifications/reminders
Subtasks
iOS app prototype
Collab prototype
Release
Kanban
etc

Demo at https://air.day/ - or you can follow progress at https://github.com/airdaydev/airday

if you read this and it's not for you, please tell me why it didn't appeal to you!

I am a degenerate Things user in that I have never used the "Today" screen in Things 3 once. I treat "Inbox" as the most pressing screen. Instead of being something to get to 0, it's something that usually sits around 15-30 items - a number that's not overwhelming & lets me quickly see quickly the various pursuits I'm tracking and lets me put tasks in competition with each other.

Obviously this means the traditional "Inbox" item i.e. unsorted tasks will be conflated with "tasks that require action soon". But this works well. Because an unsorted task should be sorted soon.

If an item must be scheduled it will be promoted to my calendar (I self-host this with radicale & mostly use Apple calendar to view).

Anyone else work this way?

Prototype of my very fast, open source, local-first + sync, e2ee, productivity app. What apps do you use now and what features are most important to you?

Do you abuse the inbox?