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Everdo: VERY nice cross-platform GTD app
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Posted by thouqht
Oct 4, 2018 at 10:32 PM
tldr: Everdo is awesome: https://everdo.net
So I’ve been in the middle of a personal information overhaul and working through Tiago Forte’s truly fantastic Building A Second Brain course (https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/). That probably deserves a post on it’s own (serious knowledge workers out there might find the investment worth it), but I’ll wait until I’m further along in it.
The one step thing I was struggling with was picking an app to manage my tasks. I’d mostly been just managing separate lists in dynalist, but this was proving to be untenable and mentally quite “messy”.
I’ve really struggled to find a good full featured GTD app on windows. Apple users have Things and OmniFocus, but on windows the pickings are much slimmer (and I really just don’t like Todoist). I was about to settle on just using org-mode and accepting that I’ll spend hours fiddling with it, but then I came across Everdo.
I’ve tried almost every task manager out there available on windows and I’ve instantly fallen in love. We’ll see how I feel after I put it through it’s paces, it’s definitely worth a look.
Top Features
- Single purchase license
- Rapidly being developed
- Truly excellent “areas” feature for sorting your project views
- Full support of GTD methodology
- Strong keyboard shortcuts across the whole app
- Very good performance on my computer - combined with the shortcuts it feels like an app maximized for speed
- Can add due dates & metadata to projects themselves - something I LOVE but most task managers don’t allow
- Has a place for light notes
Potential Cons
- Only has network sync currently
- Android app is still in beta
- iOS app next year
Here’s the development roadmap: https://forum.everdo.net/t/everdo-development-roadmap-and-backlog/49
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 4, 2018 at 11:47 PM
Are you worried that the list of improvements is now nine months old? Are we sure that development is continuing?
Posted by thouqht
Oct 5, 2018 at 12:12 AM
Did you look at the roadmap?
Posted by NickG
Oct 5, 2018 at 07:57 AM
I signed up for the beta program about a year ago. It’s a nice app in many ways, but:
- No IOS app yet
- No encrypted sync yet
- Odd (to my eyes) UI on the Mac
- Limited import/export - I want my notes repository to have a *lot* of flexibility in how I export and use the notes
I like the fact that it’s non-subscription for the Pro level (free level has decent features). It’s similar in some ways to Agenda - attempting to combine tasks and note management in one app. I’m not sure it’ll earn a permanent place in my workflow yet - I’ll be able to decide when IOS and sync are in place. At present, it’s an interesting curiosity for me.
But - if you’re only concerned with desktop and you use different platforms, it could be helpful.
thouqht wrote:
Did you look at the roadmap?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 5, 2018 at 11:01 AM
Yes, but I didn’t quite get how it was laid out. I thought the list of Desktop improvements was from December of last year. I see now that it was from 12 days ago.
thouqht wrote:
Did you look at the roadmap?