Most of it has this weird "Friends" but with a "rich millenial from SF" flavor marketing to it. Everything is made to feel super-important and productive, yet casual.
It feels like they have a single persona:
"[Dave/Alice] lives in SF. After a busy day hustling, they chase their side gig doing [photography/art/music production]. Later on in the evening, they contact all of their friends using [platform] to go downtown for a [coffee/sushi/craft beer]. While on their [Uber/Lyft] ride, they check the [stock market / sport scores / wikipedia trivia].
Back home, they use the voice assistant on [platform] to dim the lights in their studio apartment and watch the newest TV show on [streaming service]"
Before bed, they finish the day by [meditating / reading a self-help book / listening to a self-improvement podcast]."
Is this silly? Yes, but it beats aspiring to work all the time.
Homechart is similar to sorted but adds more "household" features like budgeting and recipes. Unlike sorted, you can self host it.
* i don't see a demo, it'd be nice
* is it US specific? seems like it is from the descriptions, but I'm not sure
The entire idea of multiple calendars is a poor abstraction. People (you, me) have upcoming events that they care about; other people want to schedule events that don't conflict. Some events are public, some are private, and some are so private that they are transparent and nonblocking.
Somehow we made it way harder than it needed to be.
My fear is that marketing to regular people won’t work, but I suppose the data will eventually reveal that.
> hyper scheduling
Um.. what?
I was a lot more interested in this product until I started reading the marketing copy. To me it reads like the worst of breed of Silicon Valley “solution looking for a problem speak”.
Basically, it is a todo manager, but with built-in first-class scheduling. You input your todos, assign time estimates, and Sorted helps you spread them out in your day, keeping your calendar events in mind.
To explain the value in this, let me copy one of my comments in this thread:
[...] Sorted is really great for people like myself who tend to overfill their todo lists, and subsequently feel bad at the end of the day when they don't manage to complete everything.
Sorted pushes me to assign time estimates to the task, which helps me to keep my todo-list for the day more realistic and manageable. I like it more than managing my todos directly in the calendar [...].
> Basically, it is a todo manager, but with built-in first-class scheduling.
> You input your todos, assign time estimates, and Sorted helps
> you spread them out in your day, keeping your calendar events in mind.
I've used a notebook exactly like this project, sort of a hybrid bullet note system. Eventually when work got too complicated I started doing the same thing in an RTF notes program.
But the biggest thing for me though is being able to add info VERY quickly without more than a few taps. Otherwise I'm just not going to bother with it.
My notes, I have a full keyboard and dedicated "open notes" button on my touch bar. Works excellent for me.
Probably the two biggest peace-of-mind boosts in my life have been this, and blocking of large chunks of time for deep/focused work.
If this was a webapp, I'd skip it.
Apart from the nice privacy policy, Sorted is really great for people like myself who tend to overfill their todo lists, and subsequently feel bad at the end of the day when they don't manage to complete everything.
Sorted pushes me to assign time estimates to the task, which helps me to keep my todo-list for the day more realistic and manageable. I like it more than managing my todos in the calendar, as for example the Make Time people would probably like me to.
Plan (https://getplan.co/) is also very similar.
I try to get everything I do as a TODO item. Add the link to the Jira item in the title. When it is marked as DONE, it adds a journal entry into Org-Roam/Daily file automatically.
Still haven't figured out how to use org-roam idiomatically.
I like the idea though, I like scheduling some things in calendar and others in reminders and like someone else mentioned; could be nice to work with both at once.
I know someone else mentioned Things, and I do own a copy but stopped using it as I didn’t like having tasks outside of the default Reminders app.
Hmm, importing reminders marks them as done in reminders? That’s no good. Also only limited to one reminders list?
Things now integrates with Reminders.
In contrast, I've been using GoodTask specifically because it integrates with Reminders (and keeps the tasks inside of Reminders too), mostly for the sync using my DAV server
I've been looking for an Android implementation for forever, but 1soft apparently doesn't care about platforms beyond Windows. A true shame.
Having worked with A&B when I used to be desktop bound years ago, it's almost painful to see some very few others stumbling around in the dark and almost getting to A&B's full algorithm.
I wish I had the confidence and tools to go ahead and build the Android version I want!
[0] https://appcenter.elementary.io/com.github.alainm23.planner/
Basically, it is a todo manager, but with built-in first-class scheduling. You input your todos, assign time estimates, and Sorted helps you spread them out in your day, keeping your calendar events in mind.
To explain the value in this, let me copy one of my comments in this thread:
[...] Sorted is really great for people like myself who tend to overfill their todo lists, and subsequently feel bad at the end of the day when they don't manage to complete everything. Sorted pushes me to assign time estimates to the task, which helps me to keep my todo-list for the day more realistic and manageable. I like it more than managing my todos directly in the calendar [...].
See www.1soft.com, Above & Beyond does this rescheduling the real way, but it's only on Windows.
Tasks often require materials and procedures, kind of like a science lab. If you're going to cut the lawn, you might need more than the lawnmore. You might need canister of gas, hedge trimmers, gloves ... and so on. But it will also depend on the weather, if its rained or it rained the previous day, you might not be able to cut the grass. or the time will increase how long it takes you. If its too late in the day, it might be too dark, or you might not want to disrupt your neighbours, and so on. You might be out of gas and have to go buy some. You might not know where you left your trimmers last time. It just explodes into possibilities.
So I think an app with good task management, would make the user write out a check list of materials, and repeatable procedure like a science lab. Then at the end have the user write set reminders what they need to buy/do for the next time.
And then I do it.
All these apps try to sell you on "if only you use me you will gain focus", however a piece of paper forces one to think about what is going to happen next. You can write a lot. Or nothing. Your choice.
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In reading the comments, I have already learned a lot. There are some mentioned apps that we didn’t know. We also get inspired by some other ideas.
We’re a small remote team, but we’re doing our best to move fast. I appreciate the honest feedback and look forward to pick up your brains. Putting my comments in each thread.
Of course, this looks a lot smarter with proper calendar integrations and nifty time adjustment controls, but I actually just needed a Calendar view of things and with the rest working like a to-do list with the occasional power to backlink with existing pages.
Maybe I should give this a try.