Simple Todo

Change browser new tab into a simple todo list

5 followers

Change browser new tab into a simple todo list

5 followers

Simple Todo is a customizable replacement for the browser's new tab page. 👉 Manage todo items across three predefined lists 🌒 Dark mode 🎨 Configurable color schemes 🏞 Background images from Unsplash

Free

Launch tags:

Chrome Extensions•Productivity

Launch Team

Ken Moo

Simple and clean design I like it. Except that my new tab is already taken by a bookmarking tool that I'm using :(. Would be awesome if you allow people to save bookmarks like workona. All the best for the launch!

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4yr ago

Arnelle Balane

Simple Todo

Maker

@ken_moo Thanks! It's true Simple Todo currently only deals with todos, but integrating with bookmarks isn't that difficult to do as well. I'll have to consider how to best to display them on the page so it works well together with todos. Thank you for your feedback!

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4yr ago

Gary Elley

@arnellebalane If you do add bookmarks, please make display an option only. Personally, I don't want them on my to-do tab :)

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4yr ago

Arnelle Balane

Simple Todo

Maker

@gary_elley Thanks for the suggestion! :)

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4yr ago

Edita Dermontaité

Leadcamp

Ok, so I'm really liking it so far! The only downside is that if I'm sharing my screen during a call and have to open a new tab, my to do list is there... I know it's your main USP and it's a purpose of changing a new browser tab into something else, but some work around could be cool. Also I had to bookmark an actual google.com page, because from there I access my docs, drive, etc. So far it's the simplest to do list I found and that's the main thing I like about it, I'll see how long I can handle the extra steps needed to get to an actual google page though. If there would be some other easy way to access it, so not via new tab, most likely I would switch to that option.

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4yr ago

Arnelle Balane

Simple Todo

Maker

@edita Hi, I'm glad that you found this tool useful! Thank you very much for your feedback and ideas on how I could make Simple Todo even better! I'll be adding a "privacy mode" which will blur out the contents of the todo items. I also share my screen a lot and I will also personally need it at some point. This is the next thing that I'll be working on. I'll consider adding quick links to some Google apps (I think Gmail, Drive, and Calendar would be the minimum ones needed?). This will most likely be disabled by default to keep the interface simple. I'll think about how to best implement this. In the meantime, Simple Todo is also available as a Web app (instead of a new tab replacement) at https://simple-todo.arnelle.me/. Unfortunately the todos are not yet synced across the two, so you'd have to manually migrate your todos from the new tab into the site (or if you know your way around DevTools, you can copy-paste the todos data from LocalStorage). Again, thank you very much for the feedback! And stay tuned for these upcoming updates!

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4yr ago

Edita Dermontaité

Leadcamp

@arnellebalane the quick links I use the most are docs, sheets and drive (I always have gmail and calendar open by default), but that would vary from person to person for sure. I actually love the idea of blurring it out and adding quick links. Congrats on a cool app and looking forward for updates!

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4yr ago

Arnelle Balane

Simple Todo

Maker

@edita Hi! I've just released the privacy mode feature! Your browser should update your extensions automatically at some point :D

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4yr ago

Edita Dermontaité

Leadcamp

@arnellebalane weird, I see the rocket with "what's new", but the setting don't have this option.

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4yr ago

Arnelle Balane

Simple Todo

Maker

@edita Oh yeah that was my bad, I prematurely released the "what's new" changes before the extension was approved in the Chrome Webstore. So your version picks it up even though it's not in the latest version yet. I've handled this so it doesn't happen in the future anymore, but for now you'll have to wait for the extension to be updated in your browser. Sorry for the inconvenience 🙇‍♂️

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4yr ago

Arnelle Balane

Simple Todo

Maker

Hi, Arnelle here 👋 I'm the maker of Simple Todo. I built this app mainly to have an app that manages my todos the way I currently do with physical sticky notes. I want my todo list to be visible as often as possible (because when it it out of sight, it is out of mind) so the browser's new tab seems like a good place to put it.

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4yr ago