:D "massively multiplayer online dotolist" – sounds scary, but the usage chart grows steadily during the last days, so I will first involve my friend with senior experience (a person, NOT AI agent) to check and possibly prepare the backend and infrastructure.

You'd be wrong.

To my knowledge, no simple tool of this kind exists. There are countless complex apps that want something from you and your collaborators — a subscription fee, registration, an email address, your smartphone's private data, permission to send you notifications, and everything in between.

So I built something my elderly father, wife, kids, and less tech-savvy co-workers can use instantly, without explanation from their phones.

The solution is deliberately minimal: just a URL per collaborator, opened in their browser (desktop or mobile) — no new tools, no new habits. The list is the single source of truth; ongoing communication happens through whatever channels they already use: chat, Messenger, email…

I built https://dotolist.eu for myself as a proof of concept — but friends quickly adopted it, and you're welcome to use it for free. It is NOT vibe-coded. It is love-coded in Clojure.

Let me know if you find it useful. :)

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Very interesting point!

For me survival means: - continuing to do my best at the language level – even if more people would start be gradually satisfied with less - I just believe that education, critical thinking and evidence-based principles are at core of humanity progress and one day it will make comeback - I am ok with smaller income and not wishing to exchange it for creating bullshit

The adaptation for me means: - generally: stay open-minded - I have to understand and somehow accept that the prospect is a bit grim but not to fall into some extreme and doom thinking - I have to explore new ways how to augment human-oriented creativity (with or without these tools)

What do you think?

We are a publisher which succeeded due to the highest-quality translations. Our readers appreciated it and ask for it. Czech language is very rich and these machines are not able to make the most of it. The non-fiction sphere needs a lot of fact-checking e.g. in local and field terminology too. So even we can imagine the process of translation could be technically shortened by machine translation, it would probably ruin our reputation in a long term.

At least for now...

I like the perspective of "choices" during creation. It is an essential principle of the real art that it is a result of thousands/millions of deliberate choices. This is what we admire on the art. If you use mostly machine (or other kind of ways that decide instead and for you) for creation, you as an creator simply do less choices.

In this case, you delegate many of your experienced/crazy/hard decisions to the model (which is based on such decision made already by other artists but combines them in a random way). It is like decompressing JPG – some things are just hallucinated by machine.

From the perspective of pure human creativity, the result is thin, diluted. Even it seems like deliberate. In my opinion art lovers will seek for the dense art made by human, maybe asking even more for some kind of "proof" of the human-based process. What do you think?

Maybe not yet. The real "art" consumers were always very sensitive and asking for originality (thus scarcity). It is an essential principle of the art that it is a result of thousands/millions of deliberate choices. If you use machine for creation, you less choices. You delegate most of your talented/crazy/hard choices to the model (which is based on such choices of already talented but combines them in a random way). The result is thin, diluted even it seems like deliberate. In my opinion the most art lovers will continue to seek for the dense art made by human, asking for some kind of proof. :) The real art will be even more appreciated. I guess.

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For night owls: you can add an extra event (e.g., "11-11:01am Morning") and put all to-dos below this so they will start after.

Thank you for your time and expertise. I will look into them and answer (or ask) here, later.

Later, I shared some thoughts about Nautilus in an article (https://lifehacky.net/how-i-learned-to-plan-better-and-what-...), and many users expressed the need for a more accessible version of the tool.

As I am not a programmer (but a book publisher), it took some time... :) However, now everyone can try it regardless of their preferred platform.

Time-blocking is about dedicating blocks of time to focused work and other activities, balancing various aspects of life, and reducing the stress of an overflowing to-do list. In my experience, this approach can help precisely with this: it keeps track of what I can and cannot finish during the day.

I would love for you to try it out and share your feedback. Your insights are invaluable and will help improve Nautilus further. Check it out here; it is free and runs only in the browser (your data are not transferred):

https://nautilus-omnibus.web.app

I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts!