#Nozbe weekly review mac#

If you wanted, you could get a task totally set in a project - complete with due date and context - by using only the single line in the Nozbe quick-entry panel.Īnd here is the Todoist quick-entry panel, which looks a bit more complex but really just exposes all the features that Nozbe decided to hide.Īll of the features are available from the keyboard and you can even just use their notation (like to apply contexts (Todoist calls them labels) to your tasks. Actually, it can hold more than just text, but that’s what’s readily available from the quick-entry panel. Use ‘ #’ and you get access to the notes field which can hold any text you’d like. Use the ‘ #’ symbol and you can add your ‘contexts,’ though Nozbe calls them ‘categories’. It looks pretty simple but really, that quick-entry panel holds a bunch of power if you want it. When you press your keyboard command you get a simple, single-bar pop-up to accept your task. You can tie it to almost any key command you’d like. Here we have the Nozbe quick entry panel. That’s not what I want, since it’s entirely counter productive to actually getting things done.īoth Nozbe and Todoist offer great system-wide quick entry panels that make inputting tasks much easier. The problem with emailing tasks is that you also get a great list of the things that other people think are important for your day. The fastest way I found was to open my email and email in a task. One of the big hangups with Redbooth was the fact that it’s solely a web application which meant that there was no real easy way to enter items while doing other projects. Really either one is awesome and you should try both to see which suits you best. That’s simply not available in Todoist without diving in to the custom filters and creating a filter for each context you want to evaluate. One big feature from Nozbe that I really liked is the ability to get into the ‘Today’ view and then be able to filter by contexts.

I ended up going with Todoist mostly because I felt more comfortable with the way it allows you to nest projects. Nozbe and Todoist both sync well and are available on pretty much any platform you use, and the web app is awesome with great keyboard support. TL DRīoth Nozbe and Todoist have features that address pretty much every complaint I had about Redbooth, with the exception of the awesome built-in review features available on OmniFocus. With that disclaimer out of the way, lets dig in. Both of them worked 1000% better than the Redbooth apps, in that they simply worked instead of acted buggy all the time.

#Nozbe weekly review mac#

In this post, I want to highlight the things worth noting in my decision to use one for the next year.īoth Nozbe and Todoist are available on Mac and iOS (and other mobile platforms, but I don’t own anything else to try them on) and they had comparable features in their desktop and web versions, so I won’t specifically call out the mobile versions here. I used them both for about 2 weeks and could have easily missed features they each have. So I needed to find a new tool that solved most of these problems, was something that fit my GTD mindset, and allowed team collaboration.Īfter a few weeks of searching, in December 2014 I found 2 viable options.īefore we look at each of these options, let me state that this is not meant to be an exhaustive review. annoying finished/not finished issues with iOS apps.no app-wide contexts (in the sense of a GTD context).

In no particular order, these were the ‘big’ problems for me:

Redbooth, my primary tool for 2014, was decent ( see my big review) but was missing a few things that I found more and more annoying as time went by. Going into 2015 I needed to make a change to my productivity and workflow tools.