Re: Above & Beyond and TimeTo

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Posted by graham.smith
2005-07-31 05:20:47

>I must say that the screenshot on the TimeTo page depicts one of the >most unattractive—to me- workscreens I’ve ever seen; everything seems >to be thrown in as an endless list of things to do

Yes that is new, and I agree a bit scary !

Have you used A&B ? It is one of the worst interfaces going and David has been stuck with most of it becase of the underlying code. It is however, a lot more attractive than A&B is.

However, this endless list is how A&B/TimeTo works, so your comment suggest that you haven’t used A&B.

New items are either fixed (eg appointments) or floating (ToDos) you specify the earliest start and latest finsh dates for ToDos along with how long they will take. This together with the priority that you assign a ToDo allows A&B/ToDo to use its “dynamic scheduling” engine to shuffle all your Todos around until the one that you should be doing “Now” ie Next Action in GTD speak, is at the top of that never ending list you have described.

In fact there are lots of ways of viewing, colouring and filtering the list, which make it a lot less daunting. The view that David presented on his web site is not the one I woudl have chosen.

In use however, it is very fast and you can dump absolutely everything into it, without thinking to hard about it and then when you have a moment tidy up the entry details to provide the info that TimeTo needs to keep your task list dynamically re-scheduled.

I have used it off and on for over 10 years now and I find that whenever I try something new, my productivity noticeably drops.

Having said all that, Achieve is a new one on me, and having downloaded it, it looks very good and I am giving it a try.

Graham

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