Hi All,
A few of you know me from the Nirvanna forums. I had tried Doit for a bit, but I didn't care for the lack of manual ordering, which I understand is back if you go pro.
So for those of you using the changes, especially if you've got any Nirvanna experience, how do you like it? Worth considering making the switch?
I liked Nirvanna a lot, and I know no system will be perfect for me, but I'm terrified by their lack of caring, and looking at options. This was my #2 system, curious to see if maybe with the changes, it should be #1.
Thanks,
Rob
Hi Rob,
The app is in a big mess right now after the update, as you can see from the bug reports and discussions in the main forum, but hopefully they will correct the bugs and reconsider some of the poor design choices quite soon.
If you do not have your tasks here already you might as well wait a while, perhaps play with it a bit and see for yourself, and make suggestions on the main forum.
The manual ordering works, but they have implemented it selectively on the lists where you need it least, and not at all where you would have expected it most. For example, they still have only all-active (parallel) projects and they now let you manually reorder tasks within each "Box" (Next, Waiting etc), but you cannot order them manually into a mixed sequence (and you cannot inactivate the "tail" in any way, not even within each "Box" separately). And you cannot manually reorder the Today list, which might have been one of the more obvious possibilities. So I have mixed feelings about this. They have indeed developed some powerful and impressive sorting technology, but it needs a bit of polishing to become fully useful.
For me, Doit is still my #1 system, but they are playing a dangerous game. They need to fix a lot of stuff soon.
For example, Doit has always had a weird kind of starring/today functionality, where starring means that the task is physically moved away from wherever it was and onto the Calendar (for today). And I discovered after the update that they have now realized that having a star to accomplish that is totally unnecessary, which I fully agree with. So guess what their conclusion has been, apparently? To have no star at all! Holy Jesus! They seem to have removed the star completely already except in the web app, which will be updated later. This definitely needs to be changed! We need a star. We need a simple, normal star - a star that is just the typical "attention flag" that all apps have and that you can use as you please, not the kind of counterproductive "manipulation shortcut" we had before in Doit (and still have in the web app).
The app is in a big mess right now after the update, as you can see from the bug reports and discussions in the main forum, but hopefully they will correct the bugs and reconsider some of the poor design choices quite soon.
If you do not have your tasks here already you might as well wait a while, perhaps play with it a bit and see for yourself, and make suggestions on the main forum.
The manual ordering works, but they have implemented it selectively on the lists where you need it least, and not at all where you would have expected it most. For example, they still have only all-active (parallel) projects and they now let you manually reorder tasks within each "Box" (Next, Waiting etc), but you cannot order them manually into a mixed sequence (and you cannot inactivate the "tail" in any way, not even within each "Box" separately). And you cannot manually reorder the Today list, which might have been one of the more obvious possibilities. So I have mixed feelings about this. They have indeed developed some powerful and impressive sorting technology, but it needs a bit of polishing to become fully useful.
For me, Doit is still my #1 system, but they are playing a dangerous game. They need to fix a lot of stuff soon.
For example, Doit has always had a weird kind of starring/today functionality, where starring means that the task is physically moved away from wherever it was and onto the Calendar (for today). And I discovered after the update that they have now realized that having a star to accomplish that is totally unnecessary, which I fully agree with. So guess what their conclusion has been, apparently? To have no star at all! Holy Jesus! They seem to have removed the star completely already except in the web app, which will be updated later. This definitely needs to be changed! We need a star. We need a simple, normal star - a star that is just the typical "attention flag" that all apps have and that you can use as you please, not the kind of counterproductive "manipulation shortcut" we had before in Doit (and still have in the web app).