Show IH: Lanes - Superpower your productivity

Hi Mike!

Good job working on the idea. Liked the customizable and feature-rich to-do functionality.

I'd suggest you and everyone interested to check out Y-Productive:

https://www.y-productive.com/

We're working on a similar goal: to combine tasks with a productivity feedback. Same as you, we think it provides a necessary context to understand what's going on with your workflow. However, the app itself is more intuitive and the approach to measure productivity is completely different. The feedback is based on apps and websites you use in your workflow, and whether they are productive for you or not.

That's the thing I think you could improve in Lanes: a lot of functionality, while being feature-reach, is not easy to grasp from the start. I lost the task, moving it between lists - it ended up displayed as "1 task for today", but I have no idea how to view it.

Also, what's your productivity feedback is based on? If it's just people checking off tasks (and the number of tasks done), it might be not fair to compare one person to another - as "task", it's importance, and difficulty to complete are very different.

Great job with the option to add articles and videos though. Really like it! Wish I could set the video as a task, not the "item".

Great app! I use google keep to achieve this and I think your application can be a great replacement.

Here's some minor feedback on the webapp:

• I loved the "weekplanner" and "daily journal" view and the fact that we can organise the task per days, very useful feature.

• Adding a task is great but I would like to be able to delete the task in less clicks as well and

• Pomodoro is an awesome feature. I use it a lot and having it integrated with your tasks app could be nice but I didn't liked where the bar is place. The timer is too small and wrongly placed for me.

• Something you can work on further is the UX. I use google keep only for its simplicity.

Good luck!

Opened your landing page on MacBook Pro. 10 seconds later the MBP is spinning fans. Checked Activity Monitor, your landing page caused almost 400% sustained CPU usage. Definitely something to address. Imagine how this affects battery on mobile. HTH :)

Edit: OX S 10.11.6, Chrome 68

Edit2: It's the balls. Removed them, high CPU usage gone.

Looks nice! Similar to one of my ideas which got me motived to finish it, thanks!

When visiting the site on mobile I wasn't about able to scroll down properly because those bouncing ball things (which don't help convey the value proposition) swallowed the event.

Hi, looks like a neat idea, but when i access your site on a mobile i couldnt locate the login option. The web version is fine though.