Only ten apps will fit into a top–10 after all (I was reasonably good at maths at school).ĭespite meeting those criteria, Things, a sana, FacileThings and several other pretty solid apps did not make the grade. My ranking is exactly that: a personal top ten, reflecting my preferences (I like a nice UI), my approach to productivity (David Allen’s GTD®), my hardware (I am a Mac user), my needs (as a sole operator I have no need for team collaboration features or enterprise–based software) and my experience (I have tested ~30 task management apps over the past two years). Granted, my illustration is a bit of a spoiler, but please read on if you want to find out which other apps made it into my top ten. Continue reading →įools rush in, they say, where angels fear to tread. I thought I would create a diagram, using XMind, a free mind-mapping program, to ‘shortlist’ selected task management programs from a couple of user perspectives. There are no winners: most of the listed apps have the capacity to boost your productivity enormously. Choosing a productivity app is largely a matter of personal preference – you have to feel comfortable with how data are entered, with the views on offer, with the workflow and the colour scheme. Some of that takes time an app that dazzles you in the first week may feel suffocating and uninformative once it needs to handle a couple of hundred tasks. You can question many aspects of my diagram. For example, most of the listed apps support various degrees of customisation I have only listed omnifocus, gqueues and toodledo as being extraordinarily versatile in that area. For ‘bug free’ I have set the bar equally high. I have not included apps that I have never explored (call me traditional), nor apps that are primarily geared towards note taking (such as evernote, that swiss army knife of productivity) or team collaboration (such as basecamp or flow). I have not included other parameters, such as whether file attachments are supported. There is only so much that will fit on a page. My aim in posting this is not to provide complete or authoritative advice, but to provide a couple of pointers for people who are trying to find a task management app that may work for them. I would appreciate constructive feedback! Posted in productivity | Tagged asana, evernote, firetask, GQueues, nirvana, nozbe, omnifocus, producteev, productivity, RTM, things, to do app, todoist, toodledo, zendone nozbe launches desktop versions Most to-do lists nowadays provide the capacity to attach a note to a task. These notes can vary from a couple of lines to extensive web clippings or file attachments. The gold standard these days seems to be whether the productivity app provides integration with evernote. I will look briefly at four that do: omnifocus, nirvana, nozbe and zendone – although ‘integration’ seems to mean something quite different in each case.Ī word of warning: this is a rather dry, technical post and if you would rather bail out now I am happy to direct you to a very funny post by a fellow blogger who recently shared his anxieties about niches, target audiences, flagging readership and the like. Here we go: Continue reading → Posted in productivity | Tagged evernote, nirvana, nozbe, omnifocus, productivity, zendone ozengo’s productivity principles I can relate to that – my WordPress country stats show me I am yet to make headway into South America, China, Africa and Iceland. Zen is not commonly associated with productivity. In both cases I am ready to cooperate (in particular, if somebody drafted some PyGTK or PyQT GUI, I'd be glad to integrate and test it).Īt the same time I still plan to work on map and algorithm improvement.However, as a western buddhist working in a large organisation I was able to draw on the clarity, simplicity and integrity that characterise zen in refining my work habits. I don't need GUI and I don't have plans to develop it, so I don't expect to work on it in foreseeable future.as I don't use Windows anymore, I won't work on binary Windows distribution, sorry,.I am open to patches and to issue reports. mekk.xmind - XMind files generation and parsing,.CSV export has been factored out to separate nozbetool script (part of mekk.nozbe package).Īll project sources are published on BitBucket:.project libraries are published on PyPi, so simple easy_install nozbe2xmind should install everything,.
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