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What are the note taking/task managing features you dont like or think they are useless?
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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 9, 2019 at 12:45 PM
I could live without the collaboration features many task management apps now have. But that’s not going to happen. Appealing to corporate customers is where these developers’ bread is buttered, because they can charge higher per user fees. I just appreciate it when they allow for us single-users.
I am back to using TickTick, and I can’t see any features I’d strip out of it. The ability to color-code lists is kind of a waste, but more due to the implementation, I think. The color-coding is so minimal as to be virtually useless.
Steve Z
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Apr 9, 2019 at 02:22 PM
I tried DropTask in an effort to get my team (4 people) to collaborate on projects. I was the only person who used it, so I discarded the idea.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I could live without the collaboration features many task management
>apps now have. But that’s not going to happen. Appealing to corporate
>customers is where these developers’ bread is buttered, because they can
>charge higher per user fees. I just appreciate it when they allow for us
>single-users.
>
>I am back to using TickTick, and I can’t see any features I’d strip out
>of it. The ability to color-code lists is kind of a waste, but more due
>to the implementation, I think. The color-coding is so minimal as to be
>virtually useless.
>
>Steve Z
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 9, 2019 at 02:26 PM
We tried using Asana in my office, but our boss never got the hang of it and we abandoned it. I also tried SamePage to coordinated with the board of a nonprofit I serve on. Maybe two out of ten of us used it… SamePage has gotten a lot better since then. It might be work a look if you’re still looking for a collaboration site.
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I tried DropTask in an effort to get my team (4 people) to collaborate
>on projects. I was the only person who used it, so I discarded the idea.
>
>
>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I could live without the collaboration features many task management
>>apps now have. But that’s not going to happen. Appealing to corporate
>>customers is where these developers’ bread is buttered, because they
>can
>>charge higher per user fees. I just appreciate it when they allow for
>us
>>single-users.
>>
>>I am back to using TickTick, and I can’t see any features I’d strip out
>>of it. The ability to color-code lists is kind of a waste, but more due
>>to the implementation, I think. The color-coding is so minimal as to be
>>virtually useless.
>>
>>Steve Z
Posted by Simon
Apr 10, 2019 at 08:26 PM
Digital task managers and reminders.
I find digital task manager collect cruft like nothing I know. The whole, “let’s put it into Todoist, Omnifocus, etc” and deal with it later is a real disaster. The easier it is to put tasks in the more you put in. The subtask feature then increases the cruft further. Instead of write letter we now have, get paper, find pen, write letter, put letter in envelope, stick envelope shut, find stamp, stick stamp, place letter in briefcase, then set a location reminder when I’m near the postoffice. Digital task managers can take 30 tasks and turn them into 300!
Reminders are an issue because the temptation to use them for everything means you can spend your life postponing 20 reminders a day.
I know this is a little bit exaggerated, but pen and paper, or in my case Apple pencil and Goodnotes, make me far more productive. One master list, daily tasks written down and crossed off has made me more productive than any digital task manager ever has.