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Rituals: weekly options
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Matt Trifiro
One of the biggest opportunities for Akiflow is to provide longer-term planning tools. Most task managers (including Akiflow) divide the world of tasks into, basically, today/tomorrow/this week/someday.
Sure, Akiflow has the "plan" feature where I can throw a task to the following Monday or whatever, but requiring a task to re-appear on a specific date is not always what you want.
Often, you want to look at different time horizons: this week, next week, the next few weeks, next month, next quarter, this year, etc. and bucket tasks into those general categories where you can hold them for future review and triage.
Functionality like this, which lets me plan/manage different time horizons would be game-changing and would make Akiflow the best choice for "single source of truth" for all the things I want to get done.
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Teivian Raj
I think another useful feature to include in Rituals would be as the name states, a daily reminder/journal before you start to plan for your day.
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Peter Harbour
I believe this can be a break-through feature. Akiflow has a great UI and the ability to organize tasks into different time horizons (this week, next week, the next two weeks, this month, next quarter, this year, etc.) will make the utility even better. I also tested Routine but the Postpone feature is not really handling this the way I like because it move the task to a specific date - it disappear and I loose the overview. I think Timestripe's approach is better inspiration for this specific feature. Looking forward to see how Akiflow implement this !
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Francesco Tisci
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Francesco Tisci
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Miguel
Yes, I'm looking for this as well. My mind works in this way. As I progress through the week, I have a list of tasks I need to do this week, but I may not know which day I'll complete them. Having a separate view, I go to to see and focus on all the tasks I intend to work on this week is immensely helpful. The Routine app does a great job of this.
I think it's important to note that when you start to think about tasks this way, the "Snooze" feature doesn't work as well anymore. You need to think about it as "Postpone.” instead. Because the goal isn’t to resurface tasks on a specific date, it’s to move it to a different week altogether.
For example, it’s the middle of the week, and I recognize that there’s a task I know I won't get to this week, so I decide to postpone it to next week (or the week after and so on). In doing so, it disappears from this week’s view. I would then see that task when viewing all the tasks I plan to work on during that particular week.
It might seem like I'm requesting a postpone feature here, but I'm not. I mirely want to convey how this weekly planning view feature might work.
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Kai
Miguel : highly agree!
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Francesco Tisci
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Francesco Tisci
Hi, Andrè, thanks for your feedback:) Would you like to tell me more about the features you'd like us to add regarding this? Francesco
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André Pinção
Francesco Tisci: Hi! In addition to the daily tasks, I would like to have a set of weekly tasks that I allocate to each day during the week. This management becomes much easier. For example, right now it is easy for me to think about next week's tasks, but I still don't know on which day they will be accomplished. So when I get there I start dragging tasks to specific days. When I see that something can no longer be completed that week, I postpone it to the next. This allows for a two-level (week/day) management that is more effective and avoids overloading the day's tasks so much. Noteplan has recently incorporated this. Timestripe has a more sophisticated approach (day, week, month, year) that I think it's too much. And Routine is the most similar app with this idea implemented.
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Francesco Tisci
André Pinção: So kind of an Inbox, but just for the week? Could this be achieved by setting up the last day of the week as a deadline for those tasks and the sorting by deadline while in the Inbox? Let me know if it makes sense for you:)
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André Pinção
Francesco Tisci: I'm not sure if it is the best way to implement it. I'd like to see this tasks in Today view. I want to see what I'm planning for today, and what I'm planning for week. So, I can drag and drop for today or for any day in the calendar. I can have the option of show/hide week tasks. I think it isn't enough to set the last day of the week as a deadline. But I agree that it should have a simple solution so as not to disturb those who prefer not to use.
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Francesco Tisci
André Pinção: André Pinção: Thank you so much, André, I'm merging this request with another one that I think will address your need:)
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Yann Schmidt
André Pinção: Hey André, I like those screenshots. Do you mind telling me where is the last one coming from ? I like those subtle progress bars at the top for each columns.
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André Pinção
Yann Schmidt: Timestripe