![]() 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. Zen is not commonly associated with productivity. 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. 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. The gold standard these days seems to be whether the productivity app provides integration with evernote. These notes can vary from a couple of lines to extensive web clippings or file attachments. Most to-do lists nowadays provide the capacity to attach a note to a task. 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 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. ![]() There is only so much that will fit on a page. I have not included other parameters, such as whether file attachments are supported. ![]() 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). For ‘bug free’ I have set the bar equally high. 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. You can question many aspects of my diagram. 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. 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. There are no winners: most of the listed apps have the capacity to boost your productivity enormously. 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. Continue reading →įools rush in, they say, where angels fear to tread. 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. #Nozbe free vs paid macMy 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). ![]() Only ten apps will fit into a top–10 after all (I was reasonably good at maths at school). Despite meeting those criteria, Things, a sana, FacileThings and several other pretty solid apps did not make the grade. They are all compatible with David Allen’s Getting Things Done® (GTD®) methodology, capable of supporting basic to complex project management and with at least one mobile app (iPhone or iPad, ideally both). This time around I am opting for an unashamedly impressionistic approach: these are the task management apps I like best. ![]() The first time, in a quest for ‘objectivity’, I got bogged down in a treacly mix of scoring apps against criteria that were of my own choosing anyway. This is my second attempt at writing this post. ![]()
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