Deadlines change, things get moved around, and for me it’s easier to manage all these in one centralized place, with the option to group by Project. And these are part of various project’s next action lists. I need to track multiple deadlines: review estimates, send requests, follow-up on trades. I always keep it open so that I can be on top of everything. All team meetings/discussions/reviews with co-workers/managers and all deadlines are scheduled on Google Calendar. I realized that I live inside Google Calendar because of my work. Strictly speaking, what goes into the Calendar are things that must be done that day. There must be a clear separation between your Calendar and your next actions list. The first time I used Todoist I went crazy with scheduling tasks. That’s something to avoid because it can create stress about “wishing” to get several things done in a given day and then getting frustrated because the plan didn’t work. I will pause here to mention that the GTD framework does not require you to have your tasks scheduled in your Calendar. I identified that a critical Nirvana’s limitation to my system was: lack of calendar integration. How easy it is to add something to my Inbox? Am I getting a trusted list of my next actions? Are there things falling through the cracks? How can I track them? Is it easy to coordinate my next actions and my calendar events? Do I like to see my lists? Am I avoiding my lists out of fear? Latest updates changed the project's behavior, but Calendar integration and total flexibility is its highlight.Īfter a week testing these apps I tried to understand why Nirvana was not cutting it for me anymore. One of my all-time favourites for task management. I like the way it organizes and filters by context, but the interface was not my favorite. Facile Things: it’s strictly GTD-based, but for me it has a clunky interface and too little flexibility.So, as any good-old productivity nerd, I looked back at some apps. Those bugs were addressed in a later update, but that week dealing with the app’s hiccups got me thinking about other apps for my GTD tasks system. Nirvana’s development is slow and I got a little bit upset about an update released back in July with a few bugs. A few things discouraged me to continue relying on the app. I still think it’s the best out-of-the-box implementation of GTD on a multi-platform web-based app. I was excited about the Nirvana app as you can read here.
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