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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.

May 24, 2022

Andriy Pelykh

I like this idea. Right now, I created recurrent event with todo list in description. But, it makes a total sense to have it in the Akiflow

Patrícia

omg i need this!!

Dodge Rea

Yes, an absolutely FANTASTIC suggestion! Routine is the only app even close to doing this, but they associate only to certain weeks. I love your idea of variable time horizons like this. This is vaguely possible by just creating Projects and Tags as is done in the Time Sector System, but then you have to manually move all the tasks over and over as "Next Month" becomes "This Month" and "Next Week" and "This Week" etc. How amazing it would be to have those time horizons shift as part of the planning! We'd be able to see something planned a ways out get closer.

This would be great all by itself but perhaps that much more meaningful if we could connect those planned tasks to larger long-term objectives. Might be as simple as creating a project with an outcome, but to know we (for exmaple) aim to have a house bought in three months or a book written in a year, we could lay out some tasks and interim goals associated with getting there and see how those tasks of "This Month" "Next Month" and "Next Quarter" line up in that direction. I think TimeStripe does something similar here but leaves a lot to be desired in terms of UI. Akiflow, you have an opening! :)

Peter Harbour

Dodge Rea: Does anyone in this forum have experience or knowledge of an application that is easy to configure with the Time Sector System? 
Like Dodge mentions where tasks are automatically moved between the different time sectors so for example "Next Month" becomes "This Month" "Next Week" becomes "This Week" etc.  
I love the Akiflow UI and I dream that the team behind the app would support the Time Sector System.
It should be possible within the context of providing such a feature where we as users can add customized and personal time sectors to the "Upcoming" menu. So, for example, add columns like "this week", "next week", "this month", next month", "this term", and "future", etc. And then add some behavior for each time sector including the automatic move to next "time sector" when the time horizon shift.

Dodge Rea

Peter Harbour: Yes, I’m familiar with the TSS but find it more laborious than helpful purely because one has to rework the folders all the time. You’re right that Akiflow could do this and do it really well. Right now the Routine and Timestripe are the only ones who really understand the benefits of thinking in buckets of time rather than buckets of topics — something Akiflow leans heavily toward in pushing us to schedule, but misses in considering larger blocks like weeks or months. I so much hope Akiflow looks into this!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nate Friedman

Peter Harbour: I was not familiar with Timestripe but it captures this need perfectly.

Dodge Rea

Peter Harbour: I agree that Timestripe is on it conceptually, but the UI is really hard for me to navigate. I'd really LOVE to see a planning tool designed around the short term take on the longterm ideas like this. The best of both!

Stefania

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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)

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 Foley, 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.

Dodge Rea

Serge Bibauw: THIS!! Yes, the snooze feature that has old ideas reappearing with new, unprocessed ones drives me a little crazy. Especially when I already know the week/month/quarter I want to work on it but don't know the exact day.

Philip Powis

any updates on how soon we an expect this? I'm so excited!

Wadi Hawi

Single source of truth! Love this!

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