This is an attempt to record shortcomings in products. I might feel like there is no proper channel for me to complain about the thing, so I attempt to record them here.
Some of these things might be fodder for my own attempts at providing solutions. When I feel like I have time to try to code for fun, I might try to hack things up with respect to these issues.
- Todoist
- Input fails on mobile web version due draft-js#1895
- Twitter
- Android app
- Does not support back button correctly. If you tap on a notification while in another app, view the tweet, then pressing back should return directly to the prior app (though I would be fine if it behaved like the Reddit app which returns to the app’s main listing screen prior to returning to the prior app). Instead, pressing back once returns you to the main Twitter screen and pressing back again exits to the home screen instead of popping the top activity off of the stack. https://twitter.com/ohnobinki/status/1534945846181126145
- Android app
- Discord: Discord gripes
- Roborock
- S4/S5 Max does not “try hard” to discover the correct map (if you moved it to a different floor) when pushing the Home button. reddit thread
- Android app currently has a 3.5s loading animation. reddit thread
- Google
- Calendar
- Synchronization frequency of external calendars cannot be controlled and is unusably low: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6313
- Tasks
- Task redisplification. If the Calendar or Tasks app installs updates or I reboot my Android, any notifications are lost because the app only attempts to display notifications when they become due. I’d like to have my entire backlog of tasks accessible through Android notifications. Various other feature desires depend on this.
- Prioritization. When tasks are displayed in notifications, some which I want to do but are not critical will push back more important/real tasks. I want to be able to have the real/important/critical tasks displayed first always.
- Completabiliy: It would be nice if tasks could be displayed and recalled depending on whether or not they are actually completable. This depends on recognizing external conditions.
- Location aware/geofenced tasks. I cannot water the plants when I am not at home. I would like some tasks to show up only while I am at home (e.g., notifications recalled when not home, redisplayed when at home). This is similar to the whole “remind me to do something when I get home” Assistant feature, but I’d like to manage it through tasks and be recallable and completable rather than one-time triggered and dismissable.
- Task displacement. If I work on something and realize something else is required first, I might want to make that a task and hide the original task until that other task is completed.
setTimeout()style recurrance. For example, once I complete my “check on the kombucha” task, I want another one scheduled for 3 weeks later after I complete the task. Not 2 weeks after the notification appeared- Task API shortcomings for using external applications like Provider for Google Calendar extension for Lightning (Thunderbird Calendar add-on)
- https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/166896024 Tasks API doesn’t support exact time, meaning Tasks show up as All Day instead of at the correct time in Lightning and I can’t set a time in Lightning (Thunderbird)
- https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36759725 Tasks API doesn’t support recurrence, meaning I can’t control recurrence information from Lightning (Thunderbird)
- Photos
- Rich tags/descriptions using arbitrary taxonomies with rich search. E.g., I want to be able to tag a photo as taken by of with or of someone and distinguish those when searching
- Calendar