Bethink

Simple recurring reminders to your inbox.

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Traditional reminder/todo apps have never been able to fit into my workflow long term, where as emails have always been a constant. Bethink is my way of solving the "I need to remember to do x at y" problem.

Sean Washington Founder

Keyboard Shortcuts and More

This morning I took some time to add in some keyboard shortcuts so that I can use most of the app without a mouse.

n navigates to a new notification form .
esc navigates back to the notification list from the form .
cmd/meta + enter submits any form .

I really like how I can navigate twitter via vim like keybinds, and I recently picked up Intellij which has amazing keyboard shortcut support so I think having an exeperience similar in Bethink would make it even more useful for me, or other users like myself that prefer using a keyboard to a mouse.

Aside from the keyboard stuff, I added a user confirmation flow and a password reset flow.

The user confirmation flow ensures that a user can't sign up with an email they don't have access to with the intention of flooding them with notification emails. This wasn't so necessary when I was primarily the only user of the app, but as I begin to share the app more it was a growing concern.

The password reset flow, again not a huge deal when I was the only user of Bethink, was something that I knew I needed to add if I were to let other people in.

Bethink Tech Stack

Infra:

  • Dokku on a $10 Digital Ocean instance

Backend:

  • Phoenix API
  • Postgres DB

Front End:

  • Nuxt.js
  • Vue.js
  • Tailwind.css

Inception

No matter how many times I tried to adopt an app based / push notification based reminder workflow I found that I always fell back to sending myself emails. Most apps that I tried out want you to adapt to their way of doing things, and they try very hard to keep you in their ecosystem. What I really wanted was a service that revolved around my already exsiting email workflow. I couldn't find any that were simple enough or that didn't push their philosophy on me, so I made one!

I figured that if this scratched an itch that I had, that maybe it would do the same for someone else.

https://bethink.life

Bethink

You add reminders, select a frequency, and you get an email. It's as simple as that.

bethink.life

Traditional reminder/todo apps have never been able to fit into my workflow long term, where as emails have always been a constant. Bethink is my way of solving the "I need to remember to do x at y" problem.

Sean Washington Founder