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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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Dom Ioanna
I can't hit the +1 hard enough on this! I'm coming from a bullet journalling method with a pen and notebook, and migrating tasks to a specific week, month, quarter or even year was a huge part of short/med/long term planning.
I get that we can choose a specific date, it all that means is that all tasks drop in on the 1st of next month, or next Monday, rather than there being a list of tasks for that week which we can then assign to days or keep in a This week's tasks" section.
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Nick Clark
Absolutely love this request.
Sunsuma made a good start towards something like this (plan out your weekly goals, and then you can link tasks towards that goal).
Would love to see something similar implemented here.
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Nate Friedman
I think the current snooze and someday attempt to address this but IMO fall short.
Akiflow is my planning tool. I don't plan "somedays". Those are nice to have's. Everything I put into Akiflow I intend to do. I may not know exactly when, but I do have an idea. As Matt mentions, we think in terms of weeks,months, quarters, etc. I would really like to have weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly buckets where I can stick items AND do plans on those time periods.
Daily planning is nice to figure out what I need to do today, but it is very tactical. Having higher levels of planning can really make this tool even more powerful.
See Tony Robbin's RPM planning method.
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Peter Harbour
Nate Friedman: I fully agree with Nate.
In my view, Timestripe is the only app that has cracked the code on a concept that makes it possible to plan in this way where tasks / items can be thrown into different time horizons: this week, next week, the next few weeks, next month, next quarter, this year, etc.
However, I love the Akiflow UI and user experience. I wish they would implement this planning concept.
Strange actually that it is only Timestripe that has understood this concept in the right way. It is really surprising to me that no other tools like Sunsama and Routine, that also have absolutely beautiful UIs, but in my view, struggle with the same conceptual issues as Akiflow.
It is also possible that Timestripe up its game and optimize its UI to the same level as Sunsama, Akiflow, and Routine. I guess others would say that Timestripe is just fine and maybe even better. UI and UX are truly personal preferences. I just feel that Timestripe (for now) lacks in this area.
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Nate Friedman
Peter Harbour: I was not familiar with Timestripe but it captures this need perfectly.
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Trevin Chow
Would love this feature to be added. It's one thing that routine.co does really well (but lacks all the other good features of Akiflow)
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Serge Bibauw
Trevin Chow: I second this. Routine's system of weekly buckets for postponing tasks is much better than Snoozing to a specific date. I think both Routine & Timestripe options make sense (postponing to a specific week [Routine] or postponing to increasingly larger buckets of time [Timestripe], as Matt, Nate Friedman and Peter Harbour are suggesting) and would be MUCH BETTER that the current "Snooze to see it reappearing in the Inbox in x days" system.
Especially, I really don't like mixing new incoming, unprocessed tasks that arrive in the Inbox, with processed but simply snoozed-to-a-later-date tasks. Planning on a specific date is good, but snoozing should be to a specific week/longer stretch of time.
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Philip Powis
any updates on how soon we an expect this? I'm so excited!
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Wadi Hawi
Single source of truth! Love this!
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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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