I like this cheap app. I find the scheduling feature extremely simple and intuitive: much better than any of the todo apps I have tried. Just drag your task to the day of the week.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJBDkXRHwvQ


have u tried it?

Yes, I used it for a while, but became a little discouraged by the lack of development. But I recently received an e-mail saying that development is ongoing; the developers are also considering the possibility of progressing through a Kickstarter project. It's a nice concept!

Yes, I've tried it. Did I find it useful? Yes, and no. I very much like the principle that Daymap uses of planning tasks in a task manager, and then transferring them to a calendar. I find such a schedule an essential discipline, even if I frequently abandon it. (I'm an Eisenhower-ite, in that respect: "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable"!)

But for my purposes, Daymap missed a big trick . When I tried it, you could not schedule tasks in it hour by hour (even as an option), but only day by day, and I think that's still true, unfortunately. The task planning is also more rudimentary than it is in Things, Todoist or Omnifocus. So more recently, I've returned to a combination of Omnifocus, Fantastical and drag-and-drop. More expensive, it's true, but as someone pointed out here (I think), Fantastical now adjusts to the task duration that the user has set in Omnifocus.

I've also dabbled with a couple of pencil-and-paper models, based on the same idea: list tasks, then schedule them. One was The Emergent Task Planner from Dave Seah (http://davidseah.com/productivity-tools/ I found it useful, and as always with me, pencil and paper embedded thoughts in a way that typing and drag-and-drop do not.

Oh, and if Daymap ever allows hourly scheduling, it will also need to allow the sync-ing of "hard landscape" commitments with Apple's Calendar. Just as GTD says that you can't have more than one trusted to-do list, it follows that you also can't have more than one trusted schedule!

Omnifocus. So more recently, I've returned to a combination of
Omnifocus, Fantastical and drag-and-drop. More expensive, it's true, but
as someone pointed out here (I think), Fantastical now adjusts to the
task duration that the user has set in Omnifocus.

You are right. After playing a bit, your combination of OF and Fantastical is much better for planning a day. Thank you.