The Finishing Touches: Keyboard Shortcuts, Task Editing & Delightful UX

this is the fourth post of Building a Minimalist Task Manager series part 1 - Setting Up the Bare-Bones Task Manager with HTML, CSS & JS part 2 - Adding the Three-Task Focus Rule (And Making It Feel Good) part 3 - Making It Stick: Adding localStorage and Task Persistence Welcome to the grand finale of our vanilla JavaScript task manager series! We’ve built something genuinely useful - a task manager that enforces focus, persists your data, and lets you prioritize with drag-and-drop. But you know what separates good software from great software? The little details that make you smile while using it. ...

May 24, 2025 · 9 min · me

Adding the Three-Task Focus Rule (And Making It Feel Good)

This is the second post of Building a Minimalist Task Manager series part 1 - Setting Up the Bare-Bones Task Manager with HTML, CSS & JS part 3 - Making It Stick: Adding localStorage and Task Persistence part 4 - The Finishing Touches: Keyboard Shortcuts, Task Editing & Delightful UX Welcome back to our vanilla JavaScript task manager series! In the last post, we built a solid foundation with basic add/delete functionality. Today, we’re adding the star of the show: the three-task limit that gives our app its personality and purpose. ...

May 10, 2025 · 7 min · me