Bullet Journal inspired personal todo app.

tl;dr: I started to play violin and work on side projects, during that time I realized that most project management apps are too focused on team collaboration or are simply just todo apps. Currently I am building a bullet journal inspired app that will focus on individuals: https://mochi.ink/journals/overview

About a year ago I started to play the violin and I went from practising without a plan to creating a weekly schedule of exercises and goals I wanted to hit and thus I have created a separate bullet journal for my violin practice.

Ever since I started playing I tried to build tools to improve my practice, the first thing I build was to help with intonation and learning scales (https://violin-practise.web.app/ - that ones a bit buggy 😅) the second app is a checklists app (https://mochi.ink/checklists/list/current) where I was able to create checklist templates e.g warm up, stretches etc. this way I don't have to remember all the things I wanted to do on a daily basis and keep a consistent practise.

This leads me to today and why I am working on a journaling/todo app.

Why yet another todo app?
I never planned to build a todo app and gladly would have used an existing app if it suited my needs but unfortunately most productivity apps I found fall into two categories:

• heavily focused on project management and teams (e.g. asana, jira)
• too simple and only focused on todos (e.g. todoist, MS To Do, TeuxDeux)

I needed something that lives in between, something that works like a bullet journal with all the benefits of an app.

Problem #1: Analog Practice Journal
If all I wanted to do was to plan my week, pen and paper would have been enough, but I also want to track my progress and upload audio and video files. Having everything in one place is great to reflect on your past week and make plans for the next.

Problem #2: Project Management for solo developers
Kanban in and of itself is great, we use at work and I works great when working with a bigger team, but as I solo developer all I need is a simple to do list of what needs to be done, therefore I used MS To Do to keep track of my projects, however over time it became too limited, but I was not comfortabel enough to move my to do's somewhere else.

For the last 4 weeks I have been working on a journals app to address my pain points https://mochi.ink/journals.

It's far from done but the core functionality tracking todos and adding notes is already working, in fact I have been using it for the last two weeks to manage the project itself (:

Bullet Journal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm15cmYU0IM