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Posted by nathanb
Jan 10, 2019 at 02:41 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
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>That’s an interesting idea, though. An app that combined notes and tasks
>without making one totally dependent on the other, but allowed
>structured references etc. There are a couple of apps that allow such a
>mixture on the Mac App Store; the only one that looks more or less
>capable is Informant.
Toodledo might be a possibility here. A while ago they added a notes, outlines, and goals modules to their task platform. I can’t speak to how well the different notes and tasks can be cross-linked as I never got along well enough with toodledo to test that out. Come to think of it I kind of miss that site, maybe it’d be fun to switch back to it for a while.
For the spirit of the thread: I currently use Todoist for personal tasks, mostly for the great outlining and easy capture. At work I’m really warming up to Microsoft ToDo, the desktop outlook integration is solid.
Posted by Ken
Jan 10, 2019 at 04:06 PM
nathanb wrote:
>
>Toodledo might be a possibility here. A while ago they added a notes,
>outlines, and goals modules to their task platform. I can’t speak to
>how well the different notes and tasks can be cross-linked as I never
>got along well enough with toodledo to test that out. Come to think of
>it I kind of miss that site, maybe it’d be fun to switch back to it for
>a while.
>
>For the spirit of the thread: I currently use Todoist for personal
>tasks, mostly for the great outlining and easy capture. At work I’m
>really warming up to Microsoft ToDo, the desktop outlook integration is
>solid.
>
I used Toodledo many years ago, but moved on. The UI is greatly in need of a major overhaul, but that does not seem to be ranking high on their new CEO’s many emails of late. I thought it had great potential, but it kind of stalled out, and it does not seem to have come that far since then. I am using todoist for personal use today, and while it has a few issues, its UI is much easier on me than Toodledo’s.
—Ken
Posted by Beck
Jan 10, 2019 at 08:24 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>just get this feeling there is a better option out there. (I mostly use
>Dynalist right now.)
Steve, I downloaded Dynalist today and find the difference between it and Workflowy, which I’ve used for a long time, much vaster than I’d assumed. I’m wondering if you might elaborate on where it’s falling short for you. Thanks!
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 10, 2019 at 11:07 PM
Hi, Beck,
I think I gave the wrong impression about Dynalist. I love it. What I was refering to is that it doesn’t have automated options the way a full-blown task manager would. Functions such as showing today’s tasks, or tasks by priority (yes, you can tag the items and view them that way, but it isn’t part of the structure of Dynalist as it would be with OF or Things). I fully intend to use Dynalist along side whatever other task manager I adopt. I actually use DL as a bullet journal. I paste a text file into Dynalist that parses out to be an outline of the months and days of the year, then keep bulleted notes. See this screen shot:
(If you want to try this, I’d be happy to share my text files that you can paste into DL. Send me an email to stephenjzeoli at that google mail place.) It works great. The only thing it doesn’t do is make me break with my computer. So I still use a paper notebook for more personal notes.
The one function I wish Dynalist had—and which they say they are working on—is the ability to email items into an outline, the way you can email a task into Things and many other apps.
Steve
Beck wrote:
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>>just get this feeling there is a better option out there. (I mostly use
>>Dynalist right now.)
>
>Steve, I downloaded Dynalist today and find the difference between it
>and Workflowy, which I’ve used for a long time, much vaster than I’d
>assumed. I’m wondering if you might elaborate on where it’s falling
>short for you. Thanks!
Posted by rafael costacurta
Jan 11, 2019 at 01:14 AM
I’m currently using Omnifocus again. I think its the third time I try something else e come back to it. Bafore it i was using Todoist. I like both.
Omnifocus is a joy to use. Its outlining capacties are great, Very keyboard driven, And the guys at Omni Group are Always implementing the lastest tecnologies Apple offers. The iPad app is great too. And also has a lot of keyboard shortcuts and almost all the functions of the mac version. The downside is that it is Apple only. But as i’m currently living in the Apple island, where every thing is shiny (and expensive) I can, for now, live the dream.
Todoist is universal, great web app, in fact, using todoist on a full browser is the best experience. Great integration with google calendar and other web services like IFTTT. The sync is a lot faster than with OF.
But using Todist was never as pleaseruble as using OF. I know we are talking about productivity here, so features like start dates and Perspectives and the bult in Review mode in OF are great and help me a lot.
As mentioned here, I also miss the ability to mix tasks and notes the way Bullet Journal does. The Taskspaper app allows it. It’s adorable, by the way. I’m saving some OF project templates in Taskpaper. When a I need, just copy and paste.
For reference material, I’m using a Devonthink after almost 10 years of using Evernote. Another Apple only.