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Are you using Marvin? I considered it but it didn’t seem to have a visible community (as proxy for life expectancy).

jonwest 5y ago
Not the original poster but I’ve tried it a few times. Absolutely love the customizability of the methodology, but for me the interface was a bit sluggish feeling for quick entry and getting a larger overview of my tasks. Things like page loads were quick enough, it was more that I was never _quite_ sure how to do things. It would be kind of close to other task management stuff I’d used, but just different enough to slow me down significantly and that initial and immediate drop in productivity made me look for other alternatives.
- tchock23 5y ago
  Going to second this review. I loved the feature set and approach to customization, but the calendar in specific just didn’t ‘click’ for me. They do a lot of regular releases and are great about listening to users, so maybe someday I’ll go back.
  - pantulis 5y ago
    Totally agree with both of you. The feature set is very deep and the team keeps cranking out features at speed. There is also certain "cognitive behavioral" flavor on a lot of the capabilities, which I like. But the user interface, specially on mobile, is not the nicest and fastest and they struggle to keep it user friendly due to the overwhelming set of capabilities and possible workflows. It's like the Emacs of Productivity Apps, so Cultured Code's Things or even Todoist are much much more polished and fast. I came back to it because it's the only app that integrates well with more than two calendars, allows for timeblocking and has habit tracking.
mcrittenden 5y ago
I've used it heavily for a couple years now. I describe it to people as tinker toys for building your ideal todo list app. There's an active official Facebook group community, if that's helpful at all: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1927874704161821 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1927874704161821
pantulis 5y ago
It's somewhat unfortunate that the most active user group is in Facebook, there is also a Reddit sub -not also the greatest forum but wins over FB Groups.

Not the original poster but I’ve tried it a few times. Absolutely love the customizability of the methodology, but for me the interface was a bit sluggish feeling for quick entry and getting a larger overview of my tasks. Things like page loads were quick enough, it was more that I was never _quite_ sure how to do things. It would be kind of close to other task management stuff I’d used, but just different enough to slow me down significantly and that initial and immediate drop in productivity made me look for other alternatives.

tchock23 5y ago
Going to second this review. I loved the feature set and approach to customization, but the calendar in specific just didn’t ‘click’ for me. They do a lot of regular releases and are great about listening to users, so maybe someday I’ll go back.
- pantulis 5y ago
  Totally agree with both of you. The feature set is very deep and the team keeps cranking out features at speed. There is also certain "cognitive behavioral" flavor on a lot of the capabilities, which I like. But the user interface, specially on mobile, is not the nicest and fastest and they struggle to keep it user friendly due to the overwhelming set of capabilities and possible workflows. It's like the Emacs of Productivity Apps, so Cultured Code's Things or even Todoist are much much more polished and fast. I came back to it because it's the only app that integrates well with more than two calendars, allows for timeblocking and has habit tracking.

mcrittenden 5y ago

I've used it heavily for a couple years now. I describe it to people as tinker toys for building your ideal todo list app. There's an active official Facebook group community, if that's helpful at all: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1927874704161821 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1927874704161821

pantulis 5y ago

It's somewhat unfortunate that the most active user group is in Facebook, there is also a Reddit sub -not also the greatest forum but wins over FB Groups.