I think that Doit.im is the best option out there for GTD but it seems to get so little press. I learned about it from a friend and even in the several months since then I have never seen it mentioned on the blogs I read in this area, not even Lifehacker (I only see this one post http://lifehacker.com/5933376/the-revamped-doitim-is-a-powerful-yet-intuitive-and-attractive-gtd-to-do-app-for-all-platforms).
Does anyone know why that is? Differences in workflow? Too complicated? The Chinese location? I just don't understand why it is not more popular.
I have thought about making a video about how I use the program and submitting it to Lifehacker to see if I can get them some credit. Any thoughts on this? Has it been done well already?
Doit claims to have 4 million users, which is 4 times more than Toodledo, one of the more popular and well-established cloud apps. But probably this figure includes mainland China, which makes it difficult for us Westerners to verify the figure heuristically by reading blogs and articles etc. If you check Doit's popularity among members of David Allen's forum the numbers are actually quite small.
Why does it get so little press? Well, maybe it does, but it seems to me that most of these apps get quite little press - Nirvana, Zendone, MyLifeOrganized etc. Does Doit really get less? It seems to me that the only apps that are unequivocally associated with GTD, and often mentioned in connection with GTD, are Omnifocus and Things, even though their adherence to by-the-book GTD is no higher than that of Doit, Nirvana, Zendone, Getitdoneapp, FacileThings and so on. Perhaps this is due to the fact that Omnifocus and Things have been "officially recommended" by the David Allen Co. What their terms are for granting such "recommendations" I do not know, but I suspect it is not purely based on app features.
Among the factors I have sometimes heard mentioned by Westerners on other forums as speaking against Doit are:
- Chinese (hacking, piracy etc, generally not trusted)
- no backup
- inconsistent and half-baked and buggy
- not GTD; alien paradigm (heavily based on time planning and monitoring)
- poor communication (non-fluent and alien-minded; despite their very good efforts)
I have never heard anyone say that Doit is complicated per se, just that it is indirectly difficult to use because of all its inconsistencies between its apps, its weird interpretation of the Today star, its non-approach to task flow within projects and so on and so on and so on, and its recent anticlimactic v4 launch with tons of bugs, few if any new useful features, and outright removal of established useful features, such as the removal of automatic priority sorting and the removal of grouping options for projects and contexts.
Like yourself, I have also decided that Doit is my preferred app, so I use it. I agree with much of the criticism, but I think all other apps (or manual solutions) have just many downsides all in all.
Why does it get so little press? Well, maybe it does, but it seems to me that most of these apps get quite little press - Nirvana, Zendone, MyLifeOrganized etc. Does Doit really get less? It seems to me that the only apps that are unequivocally associated with GTD, and often mentioned in connection with GTD, are Omnifocus and Things, even though their adherence to by-the-book GTD is no higher than that of Doit, Nirvana, Zendone, Getitdoneapp, FacileThings and so on. Perhaps this is due to the fact that Omnifocus and Things have been "officially recommended" by the David Allen Co. What their terms are for granting such "recommendations" I do not know, but I suspect it is not purely based on app features.
Among the factors I have sometimes heard mentioned by Westerners on other forums as speaking against Doit are:
- Chinese (hacking, piracy etc, generally not trusted)
- no backup
- inconsistent and half-baked and buggy
- not GTD; alien paradigm (heavily based on time planning and monitoring)
- poor communication (non-fluent and alien-minded; despite their very good efforts)
I have never heard anyone say that Doit is complicated per se, just that it is indirectly difficult to use because of all its inconsistencies between its apps, its weird interpretation of the Today star, its non-approach to task flow within projects and so on and so on and so on, and its recent anticlimactic v4 launch with tons of bugs, few if any new useful features, and outright removal of established useful features, such as the removal of automatic priority sorting and the removal of grouping options for projects and contexts.
Like yourself, I have also decided that Doit is my preferred app, so I use it. I agree with much of the criticism, but I think all other apps (or manual solutions) have just many downsides all in all.
