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Looks extremely nice. One thing that I’ve had serious difficulty with though is keeping my Jira/Asana and Google Tasks all linked up somehow. I guess it’s a no

by dijit 3y ago

Looks extremely nice. One thing that I’ve had serious difficulty with though is keeping my Jira/Asana and Google Tasks all linked up somehow. I guess it’s a non-goal, but do you envision a future where you would integrate with those solutions? Of course any integration would hopefully sync lazily in the background instead of blocking the render…

kareemm 3y ago
Boy would I love an task manager to respect the fact that work happens in other tools, and provide a centralized layer on top of the tools I integrate with.
- conception 3y ago
  Sunsama is a tool like this if you use the apps it integrates with.
  - kareemm 3y ago
    Tried it. It doesn’t integrate with what I use and it has a whole other time blocking workflow. It’s a big change from a GTD style workflow.
  - Terretta 3y ago
    Saving people a click: Integrations: Todoist ClickUp Trello Asana Notion Jira GitHub Gmail Outlook Slack Also, they say it does timeboxing, but it's not evident they understand the notion of prioritization through pre scheduled and empty timeboxes, that tasks fill by category match, then do not overfill but spill to the next available timebox of that same category, allowing you to meta-manage your prioritization by category of task vs. amount of recurring timeboxes as a proportion of your week, rather than by task. EDIT/ADD: Upon review of the user manual, they seem to think "timeboxing" is the alternative to "playlisting", meaning, do you book actual time on your calendar for a task, versus, do you burn through a list of tasks when you are in task mode. They seem to miss that timeboxing is the opposite of calendaring particular tasks, it's a third way. If you have calendaring tasks, and playlisting tasks, timeboxing is calendaring big chunky timeboxes (not tasks) for "headspace" around sets of tasks, then playlisting the matching subset of tasks within that timebox. There seems to be a concept of channels (#hashtags) and an ability to auto-schedule within channels, and an ability to have per channel schedules. Depending how implemented, that combination of features might allow actual timeboxing, which, incidentally, could line up well with the legitimate timeboxing offered by SavvyCal, my favorite "meet with me at a time that works for you (and me)" tool. You should not, ever, be "dragging a task to the calendar" in timeboxing. The task should be in a class that you have a timebox for (their channels notion) and if you have unclassified tasks, you can playlist them in a "random tasks" designated timebox. To force a task to be in the next available timebox for that class, you prioritize the playlist. Unfortunately, as someone was curious about, this doesn't support Linear, though perhaps you could do it transitively through, say, GitHub.
blowski 3y ago
My local, private todo list serves a different purpose to Jira. Keeping the two in sync is manual but not difficult. Every morning I have a routine of selecting my tasks from Jira. During the day, I just try to keep Jira up-to-date. And then at the end of the day, I ensure Jira is up-to-date with my progress. I've tried multiple times to automate them, but the automation ends up with more costs than benefits.

by dijit 3y ago

kareemm 3y ago

Boy would I love an task manager to respect the fact that work happens in other tools, and provide a centralized layer on top of the tools I integrate with.

conception 3y ago
Sunsama is a tool like this if you use the apps it integrates with.
- kareemm 3y ago
  Tried it. It doesn’t integrate with what I use and it has a whole other time blocking workflow. It’s a big change from a GTD style workflow.
- Terretta 3y ago
  Saving people a click: Integrations: Todoist ClickUp Trello Asana Notion Jira GitHub Gmail Outlook Slack Also, they say it does timeboxing, but it's not evident they understand the notion of prioritization through pre scheduled and empty timeboxes, that tasks fill by category match, then do not overfill but spill to the next available timebox of that same category, allowing you to meta-manage your prioritization by category of task vs. amount of recurring timeboxes as a proportion of your week, rather than by task. EDIT/ADD: Upon review of the user manual, they seem to think "timeboxing" is the alternative to "playlisting", meaning, do you book actual time on your calendar for a task, versus, do you burn through a list of tasks when you are in task mode. They seem to miss that timeboxing is the opposite of calendaring particular tasks, it's a third way. If you have calendaring tasks, and playlisting tasks, timeboxing is calendaring big chunky timeboxes (not tasks) for "headspace" around sets of tasks, then playlisting the matching subset of tasks within that timebox. There seems to be a concept of channels (#hashtags) and an ability to auto-schedule within channels, and an ability to have per channel schedules. Depending how implemented, that combination of features might allow actual timeboxing, which, incidentally, could line up well with the legitimate timeboxing offered by SavvyCal, my favorite "meet with me at a time that works for you (and me)" tool. You should not, ever, be "dragging a task to the calendar" in timeboxing. The task should be in a class that you have a timebox for (their channels notion) and if you have unclassified tasks, you can playlist them in a "random tasks" designated timebox. To force a task to be in the next available timebox for that class, you prioritize the playlist. Unfortunately, as someone was curious about, this doesn't support Linear, though perhaps you could do it transitively through, say, GitHub.

blowski 3y ago

My local, private todo list serves a different purpose to Jira. Keeping the two in sync is manual but not difficult. Every morning I have a routine of selecting my tasks from Jira. During the day, I just try to keep Jira up-to-date. And then at the end of the day, I ensure Jira is up-to-date with my progress. I've tried multiple times to automate them, but the automation ends up with more costs than benefits.