Manus Organizes My Brain
My daily life is complicated. I wear a lot of hats as a small manufacturer, distributor, service provider and inventor. I often wonder if my poor memory is due to me getting old or maybe I’m just overburdened with data. So I built an app.
Over the years I’ve bought many apps that claimed to simplify my life but nobody knows MY life. I decided yesterday that I would ask Manus to help me build a tool just for me. One that worked for a procrastinating perfectionist. If you saw my desk at work you would laugh as it’s piled high with stuff I don’t want to forget. I’m bad at making decisions for things like this. I feel like if it’s front of me, I won’t forget it. But then I lose it as the pile grows bigger. Soon it’s just becomes a pile of stuff that’s no longer meaningful and I fear if my wife moves it to clean it up I will forever forget about it. But then it feels great when she does move it because then I can start a new pile. Lol.
This unfortunately is how my brain works and why I named my app NewRowList. It’s an app about my brain and how I’m constantly trying to keep track of that new row of data to free my brain. The app is a list of those rows that bring me freedom and how to control them. Plus it sounds like Neuro.
I initially asked Manus the following question ”Can you help me build a simple web app that I can enter as a Todo list? I'm so disorganized with thoughts in my head and I currently put them into a note app which then disappears until I open it up again and then I lose track of the todo list. I have BusyCal which helps me keep track or things but I need a way to keep track of what I need right now and today and in a way thats easy and fast to input and with a history lets me go back and review it”
Manus asked me some questions to narrow the focus and ground my ideas to be achievable. In a few minutes the first version was created. I tried it and saw great potential but certain features like the voice transcription didn’t work properly. So Manus worked on that and I kept adding more requests such as adding a note to finished tasks to keep track of the outcome of a finished task such as after a phone call.
I came up with a name for the product and asked Manus to create a logo for it. Then I added more features like being able to prioritize tasks and convenience features like inline editing of tasks then I asked if we can add multiple users so I can share the tasks to my wife and also to be able to push tasks to my iCal calendars, then I wanted a weekly summary report of my progress to show what I accomplished each week and what needed still to be done, then I wanted to add subtasks to the tasks to better organize the tasks then I wanted to be able to order them then I wanted to have projects so a task could be grouped and tracked better then I wanted a better way to visualize the tasks and then more troubleshooting to make sure it worked perfectly on my phone or iPad or laptop.
As a problem solver who tends always choose the unconventional solution, and having access to a tool that lets me create whatever I can dream up is power I’ve never had before.
Manus lets me build apps to solve my problems. It lets me develop fully functioning apps at a level I could only have dreamed of before.
Although the website is public I currently have it set so I can invite users to have their independent app that we can share as a team so it’s not a publicly accessible app.
Note this is my third attempt at posting this as Reddit keeps flagging it.