I think my longest term reminder is for renewing my secondary citizenship passport (~10 years I think), though I do have this backed up with a Google Calendar event just in case.
It would be super helpful to me to have a calendar reminder that succinctly said "you said you wanted to do this every 6 months, and now it's 23 days overdue" (and then when I finally do the thing, schedule the next one for 6 months after that day, not 6 months after I was supposed to do it in the first place).
Various "habit tracker" apps do this pretty well, but they don't fit in with my calendar.
He just puts things - like bills, for instance - in the appropriate folder depending on when they're due. And then once a week or month has passed, it gets rotated to the back of the box. It's a great approach; a digital version would replicate the same concept and would be particularly useful if it incorporated the notion of attached documents such as invoices.
My first thought is this a perfect concept for family planning type stuff. Not planning TO HAVE a family, but planners FOR families or small groups or whatever. It's a perfect place to drop things like vacations or other stuff that will happen in a few months, but we all need to know about.
Could use something like "This Weekend" in that list as well. Maybe between "Today" and "Tomorrow" and before "This Week" or maybe after?
OK, tried it out already (because I'm procrastinating). Good concept I like it, simple and clean. I don't love the colors. Also when I go to add something to one of the things I'd rather just click in the lines rather than have to hit the big + at the bottom of the screen.
Even if it was a thing I could turn on for me as a bonus timeframe. Or not. I like software with opinions. :) Nice work!
Btw are you suggesting different colors or just fewer colors overall?
I actually think this could be valuable for you:
I also think the website design needs a bit of work. The typography is a bit all over the place, the "dissolving" clock at the bottom (with stains on top of the app) is a good idea not well executed, and the page itself is quite overloaded, compared to the simplicity of the app's interface.
But it seems they have launched very recently so there is definitely room for improvement. I would mostly simplify things, which is the core idea of the app anyway.
And I say this not to be particularly rude, but as someone who literally did exactly this on a website once. The draft landing page had a bunch of multicolored drawers with text in them, and when I was done, I was like, “wait..... dammit.”
Went with a more standard landing page layout for the next draft and felt a lot better.
In the end, my problem is not really prioritisation, but the anxiety and inner conflict that comes from feeling the external obligation to do something. I’ve dealt with it with meditation at times but it’s a continuous struggle, like dieting.
I wish there was a way of selling tasks to my brain. Something that could turn items from “YOU HAVE TO DO THIS!!” to “hey, wouldn’t it be cool to do this?”
Keep an eye out for future updates! I know what you mean.
I actually had to-doist and it was one of the things that inspired me to want to make this app. I hate pushing to-dos back over and over again.
If I know I'm going to push something back a bunch, I'd rather just mark it "This Year."
Pick up sponge
Instead of:
Clean my car
Picking up a sponge is a lot easier! Once it’s in your hand well you’ll be more motivated.
Or “clean car driver side mirror” which is a one minute job. Try to stop yourself cleaning the car after doing that!
The support email is a gmail account, which I guess is fine. The TOS looked rushed/boilerplate with little updates. Apparently the app may collect your location, and there’s also errors like:
> Our servers are located in. If you are accessing our Services from outside
And
> No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than __________.
At least these issues can be fixed:
> 11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE? In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary
As an aside, I’d be interested to know if the tasks/user entered data stays local to the device or if it is sent/synced to some server(s)?
Edit: As another aside, my adblockers prevented the TOS iframe from loading and it appears they were blocking this, apparently WIX related, url: www-strongweekapp-com.filesusr.com
Obviously, they want to be taken semi-seriously, or they wouldn’t have gone to all this effort. But they haven’t even bothered to proof read their TOS
I just go and write "ok" as a prefix for every bullet point that I complete
I feel like I procrastinate, but I mean not really? My ideas are converted to money within weeks, which is the general goal for me, whereas most people I know squirrel around for months or years on just the name of their website or brand or limited liability company, or do some other completely ineffective thing with ineffective people and can't tell.
Whether its money, administrative, or other goals or juggling family or other obligations, what benefit would I get from this app, or other note taking apps?
Can anyone relate to what I wrote and also gained outsized benefits from structuring their notes in one of these other ways?
Using the app from this post or others could help because they are build this way but you could do the same thing on paper, structuring tasks from deadline ranges in mind help you to make faster choices and actually see what have been postponed and since when.
Between the family obligations, what you have to do for friends, administrative paperwork, things that pop in your mind and disappear 2 minutes later to come back in mind once it's too late, tasks or ideas for work, all of that have different context and may not be mixed in the same list, with the same deadline on even in the same app.
I found that everything work related like bugs and features etc goes into trello for example or a simple .txt file sometimes.
Personally I saw a clear improvement in the amount of things that I got done before using Bullet Journal method and after. I struggled for many years and I adapted it to make it my own and I rarely postpone things compared to before and it makes me feel less crappy as well ...
I found that the "notes" app for the iPhone is perfectly suited for what it is, to takes notes. It surprise me that you don't even use the "reminder" iOS app for the checkmark built-in instead of writing "ok" when it's done.
After all the most important thing is finding a system that fit us and make us more productive and we might have different needs and ways we like to get organized (judging by the number of app for productivity in the App Store ...)
The part that stood out to me was getting stuck on what to do next!
When I worked for other people as a programmer I loved it when the product manager would queue up tickets for me and I could just knock them out within two weeks. I dont have that now.
In the game Dead Rising, it is open world-ish, in a mall, but all the tasks and side quests have time limits on them, really helping prioritize
> we might have different needs and ways we like to get organized (judging by the number of app for productivity in the App Store ...)
or it is an unsolved problem
or it is too easy of a problem to develop for. Isn't this every mobile app tutorial ever, swear I’ve seen them creep into system design prep too
or all of the above
I did find two typos under the FAQ that you will probably want to correct.
"Why use Stongweek?" needs and "r" in there and in the answer to the question you also make the same spelling error. Purely coincidental or maybe cut and pastey.
To be most useful the widget should allow you to select what to show. E.g. can choose just next upcoming thing, or next n number of things or whole day etc
I found the paper version of the bullet journal very effective because every day you have to think about what you can really do. Organizing with daily, weekly, monthly prevents mixing deadlines which is the root for me of pushing back on tasks because I don’t have clarity to decide what can be done now.
I made an app out of this concept https://bulletweek.app
Obsviously there could be as many app as ways to get organized so every system and apps requires to adapt and change habits.
Edit: On iOS 14 I can’t get back on the main screen clicking on the top left home icon with StrongWeek
Sometimes I think of things to do that should really be done before a few other items in the same day
Two small suggestions: let me add a new task by tapping anywhere on the screen (e.g., tap Today than tap anywhere in the middle of the screen), and support swiping back. It feels a little claustrophobic. The data model makes a lot of sense though.
> The checkbox (Ok, check circle) will be read instead of light gray.
Where it says “read” should probably say “red”.
When would you like reminders? Would you want reminders for "This Week" to show up every day, or just Mondays?
When I add a task to Todoist, the suggested due dates are "Today", "Tomorrow" and "Next week", which already fills my need for rough grained due dates (since as a procrastinator I rarely even think about next month or next year in terms of todos). I highly suspect that it's not the only to-do list app that does it like that.
