Haha, thanks so much! Let us know how Condution goes for ya ;)

Here's our Discord: https://discord.gg/3hS7yv3. Feel free to hop on and ping @core-devs and we could start a conversation!

Hi there!

1. The official line is bugs, though it is more fun to do features. Of course we will fix app-breaking bugs, and ones that the community brings up, but we are still in the move-fast-and-break-things stage. We are a small team, so unfortunately we don't have the manpower to focus on it all.
2. We see success in community feedback: we have a great community on discord that gives feedback and support
3. You can refer to our privacy policy but the tl;dr is we do have cloud syncing as on option, but don't use, sell, or see your data.
4. We are not quite big enough to do split testing, but as we grow, we would love to try that out
5. We do have a beta track on Android, but other than that, most of the beta testing is done in-house, or with the Discord members

For accessibility, unfortunately not. We are going to be working towards accessibility to better improve the app. Thanks so much for the tip! Thanks for the advice to make the touch targets bigger. We will do that ASAP. Thanks so much!

Thanks so much! Weighted tags are definitely a great feature of Condution. Honestly, I use the calendar view a lot (which is also the built-in date picker) to see how “heavy” each day was. This is my February, for instance. You could see that I am going to be fairly busy on Wednesday, and indeed because I have an essay due and need to finish editing it. We just went about it like students: just implanting what people ask for and what we feel we need :)

Thanks! To be honest, I am confident that we could compete on two levels 1. First, we are open source and made for the community. Meaning, if someone needs something made, just ask and someone on, say, our discord will hop over and potentially implement it 2. second, this is a student + OSS project founded on patron. We aren’t concerned about making lots of profit and so we spend more time doing actual value to users. (6 project limit, todoist users? No thank you.)

I would argue the opposite: this generation simply has access to better tools and resources. even 10 years ago, this would be a major accomplishment for a medium sized company. Now, tools exist that make this easier than ever. Each new generation has access to more and better tools, and will be able to do more and better things.

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tl;dr better technology = more innovation

Thanks! Yes, you can run it locally so it stores everything on your device, but you'll have to give up cloud sync while doing so. To do this you will not need an account. At the moment we don't support cross-platform sync between devices over a local connection, but since we're currently working on a modular backend, that may soon be possible.

No worries! We are using something called “Firebase” for cloud sync, which is a database-as-a-service product by Google.

We started with very old web tech (jQuery 😅) and just started seeing if we could modernize it. MVP took about 3 months.

Thanks for checking out Condution and for your kind words!

Trello is cool, but they are just a tricked-out Kanban. Condution offers not just project management, but the ability to track filters, dependencies (sequential projects), see stuff in calendar views, etc., that amounts to more of a project management suite. Thanks for checking out Condution!

P.s. also, we are open source ;)

Getting cross-platform (mobile, especially) setup was something that we had lots of trouble with at first. But, we did manage to come across Ionic, which lead to a big rewrite and hence why we are finally going to stable.

Really sorry about this! Here’s documentation on the anatomy of a task: https://docs.condution.com/guides/task.html

The globe button is to toggle floating time zones. Back when traveling was a thing, this option was meant to allow users to select whether a task due at, say 4 PM would still be due at 4PM if they travelled to another time zone (instead of being due at whenever 4PM in their home time zone is for their destination time zone.)

To set tag weights, tap the manage tags button located in every task next to the repeat button. Then, add the tags in the tags field to the tasks you desired.

We don’t have a priority system, but tag weights and manual ordering of tasks in projects are good alternatives

First of all thanks for the question!

I think as a team we're pretty proud of a few design choices we've made, but one design choice I'm personally pretty proud of is our tag workflow. Our tag workflow has a system of weighted tasks and a calendar heatmap view. This allows users to assign different weight values to different tasks and view how "weighty" a particular day is.

A different member of the team is most proud of our upcoming view and how it sort of forces you to adhere to the GTD workflow of actually dealing with the tasks in your inbox.

Another member of our team really enjoys the way the quickswitcher allows them to navigate quickly and smoothly through the app.

So to answer your question everyone sort of uses the app in a different and personal way which causes us to enjoy different parts of it. If you end up using it we'd love to hear what you most enjoy!

It looks like this app is on Android only. I personally am a cross-platform person hopping between web, arch, windows, macOS, and iOS, so having Condution on multiple places is very helpful. Also, our shared workspaces are cool.

Unit tests... ahhh... ;) A member of our team is working on it, and we will hopefully be adding them soon.

As part of future-proofing, we are in the early phases of starting to refactor our backend, like this file with inline docs and guides to help future contributors. More to come soon, hopefully.

Thanks so much for checking out Condution!

In terms of lack of experience, we just got better along the way. The first draft of this app was written in jQuery + bootstrap — so we had to go 10 years ahead and write with actual modern web tech by working a few more months of refactoring. It is a lot of work but it’s worth it’s

For “doing the right thing” — to be honest, we don’t ;) everything is a shot in the dark, but if it’s fun + does not hurt school work we might as well do it, right?

Honestly, we used social media and other free awareness campaigns to first get the word around. As one member of our team was very interested in GTD, we started promoting on where all the “task management people” hang out; it kinda just snowballed from there

Well, different programming languages are really meant for different things. There are many different types of programming languages that are better for different reasons.

One thing to consider is whether or not a language can work on various platforms right out of the box. Such languages are can be interpreted (at a performance cost) like Python, but others are JIT-compiled like Java (at a performance cost as well). This means that if you're trying to build some sort of cross-platform script you might consider one of these languages as long as you're ok with the fact that they will be relatively slow.

Another thing to consider is the speed of a language. Most languages are compiled like C++, Rust, Go, the list goes on. These languages tend to be faster at the cost of generally not being executable on different operating systems and processor architectures.

Depending on the language, they can also have lower-level control at the cost of development time allowing for you to have more freedom if that's what you need.

Lastly, when it comes to web applications there are really only a few competing standards. The going standard is to use Javascript and HTML + CSS since that's what most browsers support and prefer. We opted to create our application as a web application and allow it to run locally via a framework called Ionic w/ Capacitor and Electron since, while slow it allowed us to develop for a multitude of platforms.

However, when it comes to developing something there's a lot more to worry about than just programming languages. You have to worry about libraries, frameworks, APIs, and the truth is if you're deciding what you want to develop with you just have to research research research.

Thank you so much!

1. Yes, thanks to the Ionic Framework this rewrite is really based on making the app truly cross-platform and ridding of that web “smell” from native apps.
2. Supabase looks so cool! We just used Firebase basically because it was easy and fitted what we need. A branch on our backend is currently working on modularizing our db system — separating DB providers from the API from the query system. We will probably add a Supabase provider (perhaps even as default!) when that’s merged

No roadmap, but great idea! I will get on that asap, sounds fun!

Our goal is to make a task manager that is 100% feature complete, on par with any other app, while still being simple and intuitive. So yes, we are competing with apps like trello, as well as things like Todoist and OmniFocus

We’re just sophomores in high school (15-16 years old) so I’m not sure we’re qualified to give advice here; however, while College isn’t necessary it’s very much recommended. If you have the financial ability to go it might give you the degree necessary to land a higher position in both pay and rank. Just remember that where you go for your undergrad is much less critical than where you go for your graduate degree (if you decide to pursue one).

However, to get started, you don’t need to go to college to learn the software. The best way to learn to program is to start with a basic tutorial and go from there with fun and interesting projects. If you have friends that want to learn alongside you that’s even better as they’ll help you stay motivated. Start smaller and get bigger and soon you’ll grow more and more comfortable. Maybe even try things that will help with resume material. Soon you might be able to land yourself some internships/jobs which will give you more experience and a better sense of what it’s like to work as a software engineer.

Just remember if you know this is what you want to do you can do it. Let your passion shine through.

Oh and uh, before you do any of this you might want to discuss this with someone more qualified (like a college counselor if you have them at your school).

Well, we are in the cloud, and cross platform. We support Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and web. As for reliability, that is something that comes with time. We are committed to supporting the project, and the dev team is always taking feedback and fixing bugs. As we progress, we will become more and more stable and reliable. Also on that point: our cloud storage is backed by Google, so your data is safe! It is the same story with integrations: as time passes, we will be able to support powerful integrations with other apps. As it stands, an API is under construction for this very purpose.

Unfortunately, no. All not at the moment. However…

1. We are actively working on this feature to be released in the next feature cycle. Stay tuned!
2. No, but markdown content to tasks is something that we will be working on. Thanks for the 1+ on that feature
3. better notifications are on the blocks for us, but no ETA yet on when that’s happening

Sorry for not having these features quite yet. Thanks for checking out Condution!

This is my personal story, copied and pasted from an application :p

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“Jack, come here, let me show you something.”

My father turned his computer screen toward me. Suddenly, endless green hills jumped up at me; slowly, they changed into towering skyscrapers, and in the next second, they morphed into majestic yellow canyons…

Scrolling through the artificial renderings of a foreign world on Google Earth, I was awed by the detailed three-dimensional images of the global centres of humanity — from Eastern plazas of culture such as the Forbidden City, to the Western heart of global policy like the UN headquarters.

These digital trips charmed me in many ways: the vastness of our Earth, the varied differences in human experiences, and, most importantly, humans’ everlasting work to improve and beautify our world.

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My awe compelled me to investigate computer technology, both from sheer curiosity and to find out the endless possibilities that it promised. My explorations led me to grow a sense of ownership and responsibility for our home planet, and compelled me to create software systems that would both benefit my community and spark the imaginations of further generations.

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Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

This is not a project for high school. We are friends in high school from different schools that came together and decided to make an app.

Thanks for the question!

Yes, there actually are. We're currently working on constructing a new modular backend that will allow you to do just that. We're aspiring for it to be well documented too, so hopefully, such an endeavor wouldn't be too complex either.

Thanks for the question!

This app isn't tied to a school club or anything, we are just a group of sophomores in high school who decided to make an app. The plan for now is that the app will age with us.

Thanks for the question!

Frankly, we are just a group of friends in high school. We became friends after hanging out in freshman year, then the pandemic hit. One morning, I was talking with a now-Condution-developer about how I felt the pandemic affected my productivity, then we decided to make an app! I rallied the gang, and a few months later, here we are.

No, definitely not. I believe that PWAs are the way of the future for front end, but electron is definitely not the most optimal solution. But, it works for us in terms of prototyping quickly and getting a product out. Thanks for the question!

Hey! Thanks for writing in.

1. We don’t have any custom icons at the moment, but we would love to add some! Repeated (and also just simply better) reminders are something that we are actively working on, but thanks for the 1+ on the icons/sound feature
2. yes, we do have a Patreon where you could pitch in to support development

Thanks for checking out Condution!

Well, we are open-source, for one. Also, notions tasks are not as powerful as Condution, for they focus more on note taking than task management. For instance: Perspectives and tags are harder to work with in Notion because they require your own implementation and are not as feature rich as Condution sortable perspectives and weighted tags. Notion is a great app, though, for note taking

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Edit: original comment was 'why is the app better than notion'

Thanks!

Perhaps the most challenging feature to implement were perspectives, as the filtering wasn't the most cooperative...

As for the most interesting bug, I'd have to say task delegation ghosting takes the cake. The root of our issues ended up being one of the developers leaving the development server open on their machine, causing some super weird behavior in testing.

We have found that bugs tend to lurk in places where you wouldn't expect, and thinking outside the box is the only way to find them.

Idk it was the default on one of our vim configs so it became so

Thanks!

We started about 10 month ago, and we have been in active development ever since. Most of this has been responding to community feedback, so if you want to get more involved, join us on the Discord. We started in JavaScript, and still use it to this day. There is also a lot of CSS and HTML as this is a web app!

Both! I use Condution’s personal workspace for my task management, and our team share a workspace for our task management. Delegating tasks means that my team could delegate a task from their shared workspace to my personal inbox, to be sorted and completed within my own system. In this way, teams and personal spaces could interact.

Well having personally been partially motivated to learn computer science by a technology teacher in around 2nd and 3rd grade, I personally find it helps a lot if you motivate them to actually want to learn programming by showing them how powerful it is.

Personally, this came in the form of robotics since when I was small I could whip up some simple python (which of course wasn't simple for me back then) and make something very tangible occur. Learning to code with print statements might be viable when you're older, but at a young age like most kids, my ability to learn without a relatively high rate of gratification was low.

Secondly, really teaching the basic concepts of loops, variables, and functions gave an intuitive sense of how these work. This would go on of course to be quite helpful as I advanced since really knowing what I could do with programming motivated me to continue learning it.

I can't really speak for the rest of the team, but basically what I'm trying to say is: motivate them to want to code first, and then teach them how.

Jira looks cool! Our current issue tracking is in GitHub and in our internal condution workspace. Why do you think Jira has became the standard? Thanks for your question!

We chose GPL v3 because it is copyleft (derivations need to use same license) and allows general freedoms of copying, sharing, and monetizing if needed. Also, someone on the team was an Emacs user so he had a soft spot for GNU ;)

Um.... we are not really focused on the notetaking aspects and its more focused on Task Management. However, we do have an offline mode called "Local Storage" which is an option during sign-in. We're also considering adding a note feature within projects and tasks and such.

We are cross platform! A lot of FOSS task management apps are either desktop only, android only, or just a protocol. We are on basically every platform because we have a great patreon community that support our licensing and development costs.

I think our website is a PWA, but we did not ship PWA only because electron actually runs generally faster because it has exclusive resource usage, and also we don't think that people are as comfortable with PWAs as native apps. Thanks for the great question!

Not sure what you mean… We do have a calendar view and a task timeline, but if you mean a Gantt chart, not at the moment. Thanks for the feature request!

Thanks! Yes, we use Ionic, Electron, React, and of course NodeJS.

Yes, we are using ionic which leverages web views to render native components, but if you don't have enough space, you can use our mobile compatible [website](app.condution.com).

haha, we are a small group of close-knit nerds. We are all just trying to make it work and do cool stuff, so popularity and athletics aren't really a factor.

Thanks for the suggestion!

That is currently not in the plans, but you are welcome to open an issue on our GitHub repo.

Yeah, by task management we mean stuff like checklists and projects

We do have translations! It is all community driven, and you can see it here. If you want to help out, connect on Discord!

sophomores, mostly

Also, this is not an activity monitor... This is a productivity suite for making projects and checklists. Sorry for any confusion! 😅

Thanks for the questions:

1. We do have natural language support! You can use it for setting due and defer
2. Yes, we do have native iOS reminders, but task based notifications are still being worked on. The notifs now are just for updates
3. Pictures for perspectives seems a bit out there, though we will consider it!
4. We do have some rudimentary webbooks that we use internally, though we are still working on that for public use
5. We don't have share sheet integrations yet, but we will look into it!

Again, thanks for all the feedback! If you have anything else, join the Discordand lets chat!

Here’s a workspace edit link to check out!

I mean in my opinion kids could start learning coding basically whenever. The type of coding that’s needed for making apps is hardly immediately technical — it just gets a bit more technical as time goes on… Thanks for the question!

I think like a template name someone just decided to use for some of our product demos. Other demo pictures include actual team member names, references to book, or just more random names we thought of.

I’ve used Asana for a while; it’s more focused for team management, project tracking, and Kanban. We try to be more well-rounded between simplicity, personal task management, and project management.

Also we are open source ;)

Thanks for your question!

Although we are not hiring per se, feel free to hop onto our Discord and ping core-devs. Let’s start a conversation!

Thanks for the question.

We don't plan on monetizing it, but for general upkeep and licensing costs we do have a Patreon!

Looks like an error in the CSS, oops!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hkELB3yyOQ

1. COVID! I honestly don’t think this would be possible to start without it being a “quarantine project”. But now that it’s rolling it’s always possible to find time… cut back the videogames and you’ve already got a few hours ;)
2. start making things! If you are interested in making apps, start learning JS and HTML. Then, move on to things like React. If you are with machine learning, learn Python and start training some basic model. Projects are the most fun way to start learning programming

And yes, I really think once you learned one language, learning another is simply a mechanical/paradigm shift — so the transition cost does not feel as high.

Thank you for the question!

We don’t have team members that aren’t pulling their own weight, but that’s mostly because we are all friends with each other and knows our programming abilities well enough. Although, one member tried to be on sabbatical, we all agreed to it, but then it turned less than fruitful…

But all jokes aside, as we are onboarding new members, I personally tried to look for people with a genuine interest in task management and react. Making them work a project on their self-direction, seeing what/if they ask any questions, and looking at their code is the best way to judge someone tbh.

Thanks for the question!

Neither do we! But we are here, making things, trying it out. No one can decide for you. My best advice would be just to try it out, make some things, and see how it goes.

Best of luck!

Yes, we used Electron for desktop and Capacitor for mobile.

yes, here's the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/condution/id1523249900