If I have things that need a certain delivery date, I will put that on my calendar. And I rarely have more than a couple projects going at once, so I can keep track of it without much assistance. My work is such that I can start and finish a project pretty much in order. I used OmniFocus, Things, ToDoist… and I spent more time managing them than actually getting my work done. I have found I am more productive by removing all the task managers from my life. But I will try to rely on Amazing Marvin for the next 30 days of trial period and then evaluate whether I am more productive and procrastinate less with it than with OmniFocus. I still have OmniFocus and might not immediately migrate all my tasks, checklists and templates to Amazing Marvin. I am so amazed right now that I am setting Amazing Marvin up as my to do-system of choice. It has a kind of playfullness without being distractingĪll this is so game changing for me that I have no issues with it being a web based system with (at the moment) an only very basic mobile app.It is based on a behavioral psychology approach.It has an animated “life coach” that looks like a toasted marshmallow.Optional weekly and monthly planning tool and preview.Daily Higlights (Make Time by Knapp/Zerapsky).On some days: Time blocking and agenda view (Cal Newport).Work from a daily list with morning, afternoon and evening sections.Lots of alternative strategies: can be easily applied like “templates” to existing tasks.Tracks how much each executed task contributes to overal goal.Optional goal setting with commitment strategy, optional trackers, linking to projects/tasks.Strategies for doing/executing the tasks.Estimate how busy your day will be based on the daily sum of the time estimate of each task (calculated automatically) and comparing that to your past averages.Time estimate (for executing all tasks of the day). ![]() Drag tasks from master list to your day.Focus on task execution, not tasks management.I have been pairing Omnifocus with Fantastical, a Pomodoro Timer and Toggle to implement a sort of time blocking strategy… using 4 different apps… but there is still a lot of friction in the process and as a result I still struggle on execution and tend to procrastinate on tasks. But it is not that easy and straightforward with a system that is focused more on task management than on task execution. But … I have always struggled with executing all those tasks! Yes, I know, I should just fiddle once a day with the system and simply do stuff during the day. I would consider myself an OmniFocus power user and I have been happy with its flexibility and iOS, macOS and watchOS integration. Inspired by this thread, I have been checking out Amazing Marvin and … am being quite amazed by it so far.
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