![]() ![]() There are also some rules for how things flow through the GTD workflow, which are kind of dogmatic: If a next action has a specific time it needs to happen on, or happen by, it goes on the calendar. The contexts are defined by you, but the list shouldn’t get out of hand, because you’ll need to remember them.Ĭalendar records appointments and things with due dates. The tasks are organized into contexts like etc. These are usually organized on list of things you need to do when you get a chance, called the Next Actions list or task list. \"NextActions\" are discrete actions that can\'t be completed at the moment. This could range from little things like \"Plan picnic on yyyy-mm-dd\" to big things like \"Successfully complete merger with Company X\" \"Projects\" are goals that require more than 1 step to accomplish. \"Stuff\" is everything that life throws at us that requires or demands our attention, like mail, email, text messages, memos, notes, thoughts, ideas, bills, etc. This is not an original thought, as many people have found this to be so, and GTD methodology is extremely popular. If either isn’t the case, then little bumps on the road that were fine when driving at 5mph suddenly become car-flipping bumps at 100mph.Īmong the many productivity and schools of thought on how to keep our mental house in good order, I found David Allen\'s Gettting Things Done methodology to be most applicable to me. If your car and driving skills are in good order, speeding up isn’t a problem. ![]() I’ve heard it likened to a driving a car. There is some control imparted by actively deciding for oneself what to do among the sea of things to do, instead of letting emergencies dictate what’s going to happen now. Managing what to do – writing them down, looking at them to decide what to do next, or now, or tomorrow – at some point becomes almost as important as doing the work, as efficiency has to be brought in somehow (in addition to working harder) to get everything done on time to the degree that they need to be done.įor me, thinking about and deciding what the best thing is to work on right now was the first step towards gaining some perspective, or having some ideas about what\'s important (although that in and of itself doesn’t impart perspective). I also opened up OmniOutliner for the Mac and the templating and weird font-level formatting just made me angry at it all over again.When workload becomes large enough, it becomes entirely possible to work really hard on the wrong thing for that time/situation. (But I don’t want to scratch the surface to find out.) Dynalist seems a more comprehensive (and complicated) product, but I think that Workflowy was easier to work with, and faster, so for now I think I like it a bit more.Ĭheckvist still seems uglier and more ungainly, though perhaps that’s only skin deep. I pasted a TaskPaper document as well as an OMPL file from my clipboard. I have free accounts on both services and just decided to try them out again in the web versions on my Mac. Check out their monthly blog to see what they’ve been doing: Having said that, they are making constant improvements. If they did, I’m sure the mobile experience would be much better. It has been clear from the beginning that the Dynalist developers don’t really use their own app on mobile, and certainly not on iOS. I prefer Dynalist, but agree that if I were just selecting between the two iOS apps right now I might use Workflowy instead. I don’t think I could do all this with Workflowy. Dynalist is a great way to pick up a file needed for a task and quickly move it over to another machine. ![]() The web version in Edge on Windows 10 is great for me at work, where I do not have a Mac-I can drag emails from Outlook, files, etc., and set up tasks as calendar events with the Google calendar integration. I use Dynalist mainly on Mac and Windows 10, and find I’ve been using it more. Workflowy’s big strength to me is the single tree idea, and the way it really handles extremely long outlines very, very well. I’ve used both, and other tools like Checkvist. Would appreciate any thoughts on others who have used both. My calendar does diary, my files are in icloud. In the end I miss the simplicity of Workflowy. I also found the line change from normal to edit mode extremely annoying when editing a lot of entries. The dates option is more problematic than useful as dated things usually need export, which is another major problem for me with Dynalist. I’ve also come to realise that I don’t use the wiki-links, or attach files much. As this is my mobile tool it creates a lot of friction. I think the main reason for my switch back is that dynalist on an iPad Pro is woeful. I then switched to Dynalist for the last year and hardly use it at all. I used Workflowy for a few years and it was my goto app. ![]()
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