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It's not "AI", but Motion's (not to be confused with Notion) algorithm is pretty good. When you add a task, you specify an urgency, time estimate, and what "sc

It's not "AI", but Motion's (not to be confused with Notion) algorithm is pretty good. When you add a task, you specify an urgency, time estimate, and what "schedule" it belongs to (e.g. work, personal, etc). Schedules are different categories with their own "slots" of time that a task can fill. You can also specify whether to use chunking, which lets the algorithm break a task into multiple events based on the "minimum chunk duration" you set for that task. For example, let's say you create a 9-5 "schedule" for work. It's currently 3pm. You add two tasks: - 3h, Task A, low priority, set min chunk duration to 1h - 1h, Task B, high priority Motion will schedule this as follows: - 3-4pm today, Task B - 4-5pm today, Task A - 9-11am tomorrow, Task A If you were to swap the urgencies, it will automatically reschedule those tasks (and any tasks that follow it, assuming they are marked as "auto-schedule") Tbh the only problem is it's price. I use it quite a lot but I'm not sure I'll renew my annual subscription next month. There's also Reclaim.ai, but I found Motion was faster to use and had a better UI

smeej 3y ago
These are on the way toward what I mean for sure. They're still missing the element of, "Your last meeting was with Alice and Bob, who are in Marketing. You have half an hour before you have to leave to get to a client meeting, so you can probably knock out this marketing-related task because you're in that headspace, but this equally involved task planning the details of an event in a week might require too much of a context shift to get done right now." Those are the types of little time blocks I lose all the time because I can't switch fast enough, whereas if a tool could figure out my contexts well, it might really be able to surface things when I'm already in the right headspace. It's not going to be perfect. Maybe Alice and Bob are part of the event for the next week too, because they're also on the company softball team with me and the tool wouldn't necessarily know we were actually meeting about the event, but even switching to the task of "review task list to choose a task I might be able to get done now" is one context shift too many when I have a short gap.

smeej 3y ago

These are on the way toward what I mean for sure. They're still missing the element of, "Your last meeting was with Alice and Bob, who are in Marketing. You have half an hour before you have to leave to get to a client meeting, so you can probably knock out this marketing-related task because you're in that headspace, but this equally involved task planning the details of an event in a week might require too much of a context shift to get done right now." Those are the types of little time blocks I lose all the time because I can't switch fast enough, whereas if a tool could figure out my contexts well, it might really be able to surface things when I'm already in the right headspace. It's not going to be perfect. Maybe Alice and Bob are part of the event for the next week too, because they're also on the company softball team with me and the tool wouldn't necessarily know we were actually meeting about the event, but even switching to the task of "review task list to choose a task I might be able to get done now" is one context shift too many when I have a short gap.