The further off, the more likely they are to to change. You can want to do things in a far off time, but things change. Objectives? Above the next 2 weeks, it's hard to schedule. Gantt? Perhaps for team projects but I am freelance. Tasks are not isolated things, they have to be integrated around meetings and the visit to the vet.įurther thinking on this leads me to wonder what is effective though above the ten day horizon. It is, but now I just use the Google Calendar. So initially I thought that the 'upcoming' screen on Todoist was great. I've found that the absence of labels is also encouraging me to schedule on the calendar. However, I'm finding that the absence of labels is 'forcing' me to putting important and urgent tasks at the top of the list. Gtasks does not have labels that you can view easily like in Todoist. Now I love labels as much as anyone, and I've experimented in Todoist with many configurations like 'Now', 'Next' and 'Soon', 'Urgent' and 'Important' (although Todoist has a priority field). Perhaps it will get there one day to be a 'real' task manager, rather than an email fielder. I tried Sort for a good while, which is excellent as it allows you to regroup threads, but sadly the android companion app is lacking. Gtasks does this seemlessly, by opening the Gmail app. In both cases, the key is to click on the link to get back to your email quickly from the task. Todoist does this by email forwarding, Gtasks by 'add a task'. It's all very well having strategy and objectives, but if you can't win the incoming fire fights of email, you'll never get a real zero inbox. I think managing your email is a key task. This may sound like a small thing, but it feels intuitively better to me. The task is created automatically, you can view it straight away and put it in the right project list. But in the Android Gmail app you get a pull down menu item 'Add to tasks'. So in Todoist pro you can send emails to the inbox (or any other project). In gtasks, you see the top line and the response. They're excellent because you can insert media, inline links (v powerful) but they are 'behind the screen', you need to click on to see them. I've debated with myself over comments in todoist. If you want more detail you need to use comments. So internally I have the challenge of the task, perhaps an objective, with a suggestion of how to go about it.Ī task in Todoist is just one line. Say I set up a task 'Comment on Todoist', the tagline can say 'Write something clever on Reddit'. You set up a task with a heading, but in Gtasks you have a text line underneath, the beginning of the task detail, so you can visibly see what I call the beginning of the solution. While I love Todoist, I'm being pulled into using Google Tasks for 3 small reasons.
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