Karl Plaude

Tweek - Fast to-do weekly calendar

We’ve got the only calendar template — weekly. And, we’d say it’s the best format to organize your life and work. Tweek is a a lightweight planner to maintain your focus and boost productivity week over week.

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Orçun İlbeyli
Modern alternative to teux deux!
Karl, mate I'm just like you. This is a great development you've come up with. I'll be using it for sure. It's the best of the old pen and paper lists combined with new technology efficiency. Quick question. What does the Upgrade offer?
Karl Plaude
@stuart_mitchell Thanks mate! At this time Upgrade lets you sync your Google Calendar and choose from an additional color palette to mark your tasks. We're working on Reminders and Recurring tasks, what will be also a premium feature for monthly 'cup of coffee' fee :)
Karl Plaude
Hello Producthunt!👋🏼 We're working on a tool what can boost personal productivity to another level 😤 It’s an online todo list! But not quite ordinary. In past years I used a paper week agenda notebook to plan my week. It worked well but I always wanted to move it online, cause it somehow always got forgotten at my home office. I tried popular calendars, trello-like boards, even google spreadsheets — that did cover my planning needs, but wasn’t quite convenient. So together with our team we created our own. 👨🏻‍💻 It's complete free to use, with some premium features like Google Calendar sync, additional color palette and some other features we are working on right now. I’m asking for feedback, would this week planning tasks list be interesting to try?
Mason Wear
I've challenged myself to do a write up of at least a single product a day on Product Hunt for the month of September! I did a quick write up of going through Tweek. Tweek is a lightweight weekly planner application built with simplicity in mind. Tweek seems to embrace simplicity and really bring you back to a time of pen, paper, and a weekly calendar. Built by @kplaude. I’ve used my fair share of to-do apps. Things, Asana, Todoist, Notion, you name it, I’ve tried it. I always come back to the most simplistic version of these for my personal to-do’s. Anything too feature dense, and I get lost in the application instead of trying to get things done. It really feels like Tweek has taken this to the next level. You have a weekly view where you can add tasks. You can then drag and drop to reorder and move them to different days or throw them into your Someday list. That’s pretty much it. This isn’t a bad thing by any means; it really gives you space to simply do the task instead of getting wrapped up in the process. If interested you can see my full summary here: https://medium.com/@MasonWear/tw...
Karl Plaude
@kplaude @masonwear @masondwear thank you for your review! 👏🏼
Summer
I have been looking for something like this! thank you very much :) I would just need a 'word wrap' function as some of my tasks are too long, and does not fit within the line. Maybe consider creating a zoomed in version (by hours) for planning the day!
Karl Plaude
@lee_yi_wei thank you. We will add notes to task, very helpful for big task descriptions. stay tuned!
Summer
@karlplaude1 Great im looking forward to that! Hopefully within the notes, we can throw in images as well?
Karl Perry FdA CertNCRQ MinstLM SMICS
I do like this, just need to watch the price as there are others out there very similar for cheaper and with more features. At present $4 a month for Google and a highlighter seems high. I do like it but one to watch not pay for yet. Maybe give a free month or two to get users hooked.
Karl Plaude
@karlper68792405 I appreciate your point here, maybe we should have a trial for users to look around. Honestly, we launched a payment subscription just yesterday, and today we had several payments. We'll see how it goes and make our mind a bit later.
Tiarnan OKelly
That looks great. I've built several sheets versions of this for myself! I'm interested to try this out. What's it built in?
Karl Plaude
@tiarnan_okelly Thank you. I myself used google spreadsheets for that, but it wasn't so convenient. Especially then you go mobile. It's built on React with couple of magic stuff ✨Hosted and secured by google servers.
Tiarnan OKelly
@karlplaude1 Awesome. I really like the drag and drop elements.
Alex Greene
I've been using this for the past few weeks and really like how it just feels like a canvas rather than another platform I am forced to adapt to.
Karl Plaude
@alexg473 yep, that's right. We really wanted to make it look minimal and not disturbing from your productive workflow. And if you want. you can print it and use for offline use :) Cmd + P or Ctrl+P
Nikola Balic
@karlplaude1 love the simplicity of it... Be strong and avoid adding too many features... But it would be great to have tags at least, don't you think 😁
Karl Plaude
@nkko tags?! oh no 😱... joking here :) we really want to keep it simple and minimal and at this time not planning to add tags or custom task statuses. P.S. we will listen to our users and try to provide the best experience of using Tweek.🦸‍♂️
Hernán
@nkko @karlplaude1 I also thought about tags of some sort, but I really love the keep-it-simple approach and the design really got it (so I don't know if there is a true need of tags). Looks loosely based on Ivy Lee's method? IMHO the big challenge will be how to add features without messing up the core of the product. I wonder if there will be any kind of collaboration or at least visibility options that work for teams?
Stowe Boyd
should add yyyy-mm-dd date format
Karl Plaude
@stowe_boyd you can change date format in settings
Stowe Boyd
@karlplaude1 But yyyy-mm-dd is not one of the options provided
Kishore
I love websites which directly let me play with it, I made https://Watermark.ink the same way. And the logo is cool. Whats your pricing modal?
Karl Plaude
@prakis thanks, we are true fans of the "try without signup" model and convinced that it is the most suitable for the potential user. It's quite tricky for SEO, but user happiness pays off. The first project we made by this model was Octopus.do I'm glad to see your project works the same, if you don't mind I suggest you make a more tactile interface and think of adding an alert then user leaves without saving. Maybe we should create some kind a directory of websites 'try before sign up' model? :)
Kishore
@karlplaude1 regarding your suggestion: I am not clear what you mean by tactile interface. I will think about showing a save dialog when they are leaving. Thank you.
Karl Perry FdA CertNCRQ MinstLM SMICS
I love the simplicity of it. I am a user of TeuxDeu5 and I think this is slightly nicer, well done guys.
Karl Plaude
@karlper68792405 Tweek is more paper-like canvas. Every week is a sheet and you can switch to next or previous canvas.... And I think we're more simplier :)
Rui Parada
This is just Amazing. Lovely product. I'm using calendar for my tasks....but I want to try this, for sure. So cool
Karl Plaude
@rui_parada thank you! Will be glad to see you among our users Rui.👋🏼
Juan Carlos Jaramillo
Let's translate the app to Spanish. I'm from South America.
Michel Gutierrez
@juan_carlos_jaramillo Agree. @karlplaude1 You don't even need to translate all. Config and help could remain in english, but let translate days, and the very words of the frontpage. That way, in a team, someone plays all, but their teams mates only focus in the to-do features. Another feature... some trigger when task is marked as done something that could be used by Zapier or others or something as simpler sending an email to certain inbox when task is done.
ChildOfChaos
Not bad, very much like Teux Duex which I liked but haven't used due to crazy price structure and how out of date it is (doesn't work on iPad etc) However, two things stop me from being able to use this. 1) Why are Saturday and Sunday so small, those are the two days I have the most stuff to manage, weekdays I am at my day job which is managed elsewhere, so the weekend is where I want to put more stuff on. Would like the option to have this as a full day. 2) Would want the option to have additional lists underneath and not just one 'someday' so I can have a list for each project or such. Else i only have scheduled tasks and one catch all. Will keep an eye on this project though, seems the first promising app in some time that might get me away from Trello, which I am not fully happy with.
Stowe Boyd
@smarky you could use my convention, where I place the name of a project first on a task followed by the todo, like 'project x | draft report' or 'jones research | schedule follow up'. Or it could be a tag, which I bet they will be implementing at some point'.
Stowe Boyd
I am giving it a try. How about yyyy-mm-dd date format?
Karl Plaude
@stowe_boyd You can change "dd-mm" to "mm-dd" format in your profile in the upper right corner. Is this that you mean?
Stowe Boyd
@karlplaude1 no, a third option: yyyy-mm-dd. Which sorts in the obvious way.
Stowe Boyd
@karlplaude1 I signed up for the premium subscription to test the Google Calendar sync. So far only events from Google are syncing to Tweek, but Tweek tasks are not syncing to Google. Is that how it's supposed to work? I was hoping for both.
Karl Plaude
@stowe_boyd no it works only one-way. Import from Google calendar to Tweek
Stowe Boyd
@karlplaude1 But it seems to only import once, so when I add new google events they don't show in Tweek.
Anna Filou
I used to have a very similar paper set-up, which was quite the productive system despite the obvious limitations. I can see myself happily using Tweek for a long time, but a couple of things would take it to the next level. Namely: - repeating tasks - bigger Saturday & Sunday - tags* * Some sort of tagging system could be used to manage projects and hide or show relevant tasks at will. Say I want to focus on “Project A,” or on “Work” or “Personal” tasks. I'd set a filter and hide everything else for a while. Not having tags isn't a deal breaker for me (it's not like paper planners can do that anyway and they work well despite that), but it would a useful option for a lot of people. 4$/mo for Google calendar integration seems a bit overpriced to me (and I assume people living in lower income countries would agree). If there was more on the pro plan, maybe, but I wouldn't personally pay that much for just the Google calendar integration. PS: The logo is adorable! How did you come up with it and why use a bird to represent a planner? Just curious.
Stowe Boyd
@anna_0x Is it a bird?
Anna Filou
@stowe_boyd well, it certainly looks like a bird to me. 🤷‍♀️ It has a beak and only two legs.
Corentin Brossault
Just heard about that one. Giving it a try right. It's more or less how my TODO works on paper (day by day). Thanks for the product. Looks very neat.
Karl Plaude
@frenchcooc thank you! I paper-like notebooks for years, and last month I switched myself completely to tweek and feel very comfortable :) We are still working on some features and the mobile version should have an external app. That is in our roadmap 🛣
jjmcgaffey
Looks interesting. I was able to sign in with Google, though I couldn't type my email address (on mobile, Android 10 - I'd type one letter and the keyboard would go away, and when I tapped on the field again the one letter would disappear). The feature list claims recurring tasks (which you say here is a) in the future and b) premium). It also claims mobile access but it's not in the Play Store (two Tweeks but neither are to-do lists). I think I would like this a lot, but it's not ready yet.
Karl Plaude
@jjmcgaffey just checked. Seems that everything is working fine on most devices. Maybe there is a conflict with autofocus and we will disable it to be sure that was a problem. Please check in 5 min. It's not a secret, we're just launched and don't want to create a never-ending development process without hearing our real users' needs. This is not our first product, and we aimed to launch and gain feedback from real users. Maybe recurrent tasks are not quite a thing they want... 🤔 We will try to create a close dialog with our users and provide the features they want.