Rituals: weekly options
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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Jun 23, 2024
Dodge
Jun 23, 2024
Stefania So happy to see this. Thanks for making time for it! How long does it normally take to move from Planned to In Progress? I’m sure it’s in a queue with many big items.
Peter
Jun 26, 2024
Stefania Finally. We cannot wait for this feature to be released. Thanks Akiflow team for prioritizing this feature that can, in my view, be a game changer for Akiflow and help to distance it even further from the many competitors in this space. I have tested the new calendar function from Todoist and it was a disappointment to me. I wish Akiflow can crack the code on this.
[Deleted User]
Dec 28, 2022
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.
[Deleted User]
Jul 13, 2023
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
Jul 18, 2023
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.
[Deleted User]
Jul 18, 2023
Peter: I was not familiar with Timestripe but it captures this need perfectly.
Dodge
Dec 12, 2023
Peter: 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!
Oct 10, 2024
Peter
Oct 11, 2024
Stefania Amazing. Just saw this update to “In progress”.
Thanks Stefanie and team.
We cannot wait!
[Deleted User]
Oct 11, 2024
Peter: Just a couple of weeks to go:)
Peter
Oct 14, 2024
We have designed this inspiration for the user interface
Nickie
May 9, 2024
I think having this functionality as an extension of the snooze feature would be a great way to upgrade the usefulness of snoozing and might make the use of these time horizons more intuitive.
When it comes to where to store/display these tasks, you could either have a whole separate pane like you would with the projects, and/or you could have it figure as the current snooze functionality does, allowing you to be able to see which tasks are upcoming during those time frames for each project separately as well.
[Deleted User]
May 17, 2024
Nickie Vandenbrouck: Thank you so much for sharing Nickie, we are actually considering something very similar to what you are suggesting! I'll keep you posted :)
[Deleted User]
Dec 26, 2023
omg i need this!!
[Deleted User]
Sep 5, 2023
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.
Peter
Dec 20, 2022
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 !
Peter
Oct 7, 2024
Cannot wait to see this implemented.
Robert
Jul 11, 2024
A really good measure to probably consider with the weekly options is being able to see the Statistics on your review, and think there is two parts to this -
Review of week
Planning for next week
Jeson P
Jul 18, 2024
Robert: Thank you for sharing your idea about how we can improve and implement this in the future!