No more waiting for OneNote to open, navigating to the right sheet, etc… Extremely fast apps on every platform and the web.Karma system for keeping you accountable and for maintaining a record of what you’ve accomplished, which is like Bullet Journal but with a gamification angle.Natural language processing for blazing fast task entry.Phew, that was easy…article over, right? Actually Though Then I found Todoist and it’s absolutely perfect. If I’m being honest, Bullet Journal has more than one flaw (collaboration is also rough) but the overall system worked really well for me for longer than any past approach to task management had, so it was with reluctance that I embarked upon yet another journey to find an alternative. The workarounds that exist (yes, I tried them) just feel awkward and tedious. Unfortunately, it had one critical flaw: Bullet Journal (even a digital version) sucks at planning for future work.Ĭarrying over unfinished tasks to new dates, scheduling tasks for distant dates, and offering a customizable overview of what’s coming up are things that Bullet Journal just isn’t good at.

The flexibility to add tasks, ideas, notes, and other miscellany into the same bucket rather than scattering them across different apps/services.As a byproduct, I ended up with a growing journal of what I’d done without requiring actual journaling (which I suck at).A focus on things I’d done instead of things I had left to do, resulting in a sense of accomplishment instead of dread when looking at my tasks.I did a lot of switching between apps in the past, eventually settling for a year on my own digital version of the Bullet Journal system. My personal productivity system has been remarkably stable over the past two years.

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