Inspiration
As a student, I am constantly looking for ways to keep track of all of my assignments and commitments. The problem I face with traditional reminder applications is the lack of flexibility and simplicity for my specific needs. Recognizing this, I decided to act on my problem and create a solution.
What it does
ToDo.it allows users to add tasks in a simple and easy manner and sends daily digest emails reminding users of their pending tasks.
How we built it
Using the MERN Stack, we created a full-stack web application for this idea. With the help of Material-UI, we created a simplistic and visually appealing frontend for our application. We utilized SendGrid to handle the email correspondence for users.
Challenges we ran into
Being fairly new with MERN, we struggled with figuring out how to get the various technologies to work together. Through a series of YouTube videos and documentation, we pulled through and were able to create our application.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of the fact that we were able to figure out how to integrate an API into our project. Having no experience with API's prior to this project, we were genuinely shocked at the simplicity and ease of implementing an API and how beneficial it can be to a project.
What we learned
With this project, we learned a ton about different technologies, frameworks, and languages. Being able to parse all of this together taught us about the synergy and workflow of creating a project such as ToDo.it.
What's next for ToDo.it
In the future, we plan to expand this project to other platforms with inter-compatibility with the web app. Some of the things we have planned are to implement Google Assistant in our project in order to ease the addition of tasks to one's account. We also plan to explore iOS development and how we could possibly make our web app into a full mobile application.
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