I've tried using Acreom for a couple of my projects. The app defo has potential.
However, I could not wrap my head around their concept of "inbox". In Acreom, the "inbox" means all the unscheduled tasks. However, in my workflows, I often juggle multiple projects at once, and not all tasks have a set date yet, or I just want to do them "sometime in the future". The inbox is cluttered and useless as I see the same tasks repetedly until I schedule them.
In my head (and, I am sure, in the heads of other GTG users, too), inbox is just a parking lot for all the not yet organised tasks. Once a day, I go through my inbox, assign all the tasks to the coresponding projects and MAYBE schedule them. In this sense, Acreom does not support my workflow :(
However, as I see the upsides of having tasks intercalated with project notes, I'd consider giving Acreom one more go once a better task organising system is implemented.
That’s exactly what I think of as inbox as well. As a (I’ll admit, ugly) workaround, is there someway to have the default date set sometime in the far future?
I guess I’m just wondering if that’s technically possible since this app does look very nice, aside from your main feedback.
Hi HN, founder of acreom here. After over a year of building, we're excited to drop the beta badge and introduce acreom 1.0.
The HN community was very helpful for us from the very beginning. We've recieved hundreds of signups on our google forms before writing the first line of code and a valuable feedback on our ideas throughout our beta.
We're building acreom to be the dev-first workflow tool you will love using, individually and later in the team. Today acreom is built to be your daily driver for capturing notes, breaking down development tasks, tracking progress and building a knowledge base.
acreom is built around the following fundemantal principles:
tight integration of markdown, tasks and calendar
capture-first organise-later interface
designed for keyboard
local-first
you can try it out in your browser without downloading anything.
if there's anything we can do better, pelase let us know.
This might be the right developer tool workflow tool for today. Like vs code pulled me out of emacs, this might be the tool that pulls me out of org-mode.
Congratulations on v1 and I look forward to giving this a try.
Hey, I wanted to try this out but I am seeing a lot of performance issues. There are forced reflows of >1s on normal interactions. I ran it on my MacBook Air M1.
I have been looking for something exactly like this, Obsidian with a calendar plugin didn't feel right and I don't like that https://reflect.app is online and Apple only. However two immediate gripes
1. The name is kinda forgettable or weird, I installed it this morning and every time I go to pull it up I have to think to remember the app
Amazing. I would consider making an official Youtube channel, and uploading some video tutorials there. Many people prefer video tutorials over good ol articles. Also , maybe a way to turn telemetry on/off? I really love I can use Acreom without any type of account. If you add E2EE in the premium plans many offline first users will get it for sure (at least I will). I didn't get super deep there, but is it possible to have an account with you and after buying a premium plan, just use an activation code/license, instead of logging in?
Thanks for the suggestions. E2EE sync is on our roadmap. We have made the first step by adding login with email/password (secure remote password protocol). At the moment account is required for having pro features.
This is crazy - I've been working on a similar app that ties a daily journal with tasks & calendar (https://daybird.app). There's another one I saw recently called reflect.app as well. Note taking has been around forever, I wonder what it is about this space that's triggering so many new products. Anyways, Acreom looks fantastic, good luck with the launch!
> I wonder what it is about this space that's triggering so many new products.
Note-taking is a low-hanging fruit, and it's basically impossible to create the perfect solution for everyone. So there will always be a constant supply of new apps, catering to a new generation of users and trying out new paradigms, or reinventing old forgotten paradigms. The same happened 20 years ago, the same will still be happening in 20 Years. It's an endless circle.
Though, one notable difference is, that today it's easier than ever, to create high quality apps&services and share them. So we also see many more poor and half-assed solutions in absolute numbers, than 20 years ago.
As someone who has tried many the primary issue is that one has a good feature that the other lacks. I'm currently juggling between Supernova, Obsidian, Reflect, Daybridge and a few more but this really hits a sweet spot. Once I saw the calendar setup of Reflect I knew I wanted something like that but on the desktop but they are mac only atm. Speaking of which I want to try your app, any plans to drop a "native" version.
With all these wiki apps coming out, I'm disappointed that Bear is still the only one that focuses on images.
I keep notes about design and photography, but even for non-visual topics, I like to add an image, just so that my brain can make an association between it and the topic. For example, a logo or a screenshot of the landing page.
Because Bear displays one or two images in the note list, I feel like I can more easily scan it.
I know this is a small stuff to nit pick on, but any plans on releasing it as a raw binary or linux distro packages? Not everyone is using the AppImage and building from source is a PITA.
Tightly integrates with my calendar. Easy, keyboard driven divide and conquer for my documents into tasks. Way better than all the other knowledge base apps.
We like Obsidian a lot, but I believe we are taking a slightly different direction.
1. we believe in a tight integration of Markdown and tasks - a knowledge base should be executable. When it's not you end up with 2 disconnected tools
2. our focus is on developers where we feel the unaddressed need for a tool that prioritises dev user experience. We see this especially in the collaborative setting where devs use tools like Jira & Confluence etc.
On the other hand, we also believe in the modular approach and extensibility.
In my head (and, I am sure, in the heads of other GTG users, too), inbox is just a parking lot for all the not yet organised tasks. Once a day, I go through my inbox, assign all the tasks to the coresponding projects and MAYBE schedule them. In this sense, Acreom does not support my workflow :(
However, as I see the upsides of having tasks intercalated with project notes, I'd consider giving Acreom one more go once a better task organising system is implemented.