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promotingunity

Still Looking For One Tool To Do It All

Software

Still looking for one app to do everything related to my personal productivity:

Projects Tasks Goals Reminders Calendar Scheduling Notifications

Anyone found a good one?

I want to see: My life’s goals All the projects related to them All the tasks in each project Ideally a timeline view (Gantt Chart) so I can see how long projects will take A calendar to add meetings and appointments, and time block my day each day Task and Calendar notifications on phone Something to help me prioritize tasks

I’m open to analog methods, but I assume this would be an app.

Is there one app that’s really good at handling all of these?

Posted Mar 7, 2023, 3:42 AM UTC

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Cyntaric•

Amazing Marvin is the closest I’ve found to what you describe.

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promotingunityOP•

I started a trial of that one a week ago.

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promotingunityOP•

It’s a pretty good tool, but man they made it so difficult to add and schedule tasks on the fly.

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Cyntaric•

Yeah, it isn't easy to do stuff on the fly. Hope when they get their mobile app going that will improve this functionality. (I saw on r/amazingmarvin that they hired one recently.)

For me, since I'm coming from Todoist, which has no internal ability to view activities on a calendar, Marvin's "Day Calendar" view, where you can drag/drop items to plan your day, is a huge win. So, I've been willing to give up some of the easier ways apps like Todoist provide for capturing new content for this functionality.

Best of luck on your quest to find the ultimate app. I see others looking for such an app from time to time. Hell, David Allen, father of GTD, has discussed what his ultimate app would look like.

I have looked as well from time to time for this holy grail. But I have to watch myself. I procrastinate in multiple ways, which includes things like typing long replies to comments in reddit, and overplanning. So, it would be easy for me to spend days/weeks in search of this unicorn.

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promotingunityOP•

Yes, I am the exact same way. And thank you for your replies. I’ll just say… Amazing Marvin is pretty amazing! I’m super impressed with all it can do. That list of “Strategies” you can turn on and off is mind blowing!

I literally did a face palm though when I saw how hard it is to schedule tasks. Even on a laptop. I was like D’oh! Why did they not do it similar to todoist? That system is so slick. Probably the only thing keeping me from using Marvin more. But… I’ll probably find a workaround for that and use the sh^t out of Marvin. It is so impressive on so many levels.

But… you raise the ultimate point. Let’s use what we’ve got, get done what we need, and make the progress we crave.

Thanks again.

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seashoreandhorizon•

Is there one app that’s really good at handling all of these?

Short answer? No.

Long answer? Some apps do some combination of these things with mixed results, but there's nothing that does it all, and certainly not well.

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Lbishop1213•

I’ve heard of people doing with with Obsidian.

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promotingunityOP•

Hmm… Obsidian. It’s like Evernote. Can check that out. Thanks.

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red-daddy•

this fits in: please watch carl pullein's video on 1 fits all solution. short answer: not possible.

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promotingunityOP•

It’s absolutely got to be possible.

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red-daddy•

any professional will tell you this is not possible. this is like saying: how can i be the world's best by far in any sport that exists? short answer: not possible.

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promotingunityOP•

I think ClickUp actually does everything I’m mentioning already. I just didn’t like their interface too much. But it might be the solution. Amazing Marvin is dangerously close as well, though they don’t have as much of a documents creation ability to write about and visualize my goals which ClickUp does. (That I’ve seen so far anyway).

In the other hand… I’m starting to think maybe two apps could be better. One app for goals creation and visualizing, and tracking all the tasks required. And another app for simply scheduling daily tasks. Might be best to just look at the daily task list and not be distracted by all the other projects.

But then… nope. I don’t want to re-write the tasks from the first app into to the second. And then mark them done in the second app and have to also mark them done in the first app. Nope. Nope. Nope. I want this streamlined. Not redundant and duplicated.

Search continues! (Marvin is in the lead right now).

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RyderEastwoods•

Planning, organizing, and progress tracking are important to be productive, which is why utilizing SaaS solutions is important. Connecteam is one of the best software for these kinds of needs because it has the necessary tools to utilize like time clocks, task management, checklists, scheduling, etc.

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