Superlist

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 24, 2024 at 06:08 PM

I have tried a ton of task and project managers. So many of them are very inviting, but I find myself getting overwhelmed by all the tasks and projects I end up putting there… and it doesn’t take long. It is most likely a failure of my brain in some way, and not a reflection of the apps themselves.

But I have just started using Superlist, and a strange thing happened. I got into a workflow and time buzzed by. I actually feel I may have found the solution—for me—for managing tasks and projects.

There are two features that together make Superlist unique, I think: Each task is also a page, in which you can put notes and many other elements (not as many as an app like Notion), including sub tasks. And each sub task is also a page, in which you can add sub tasks. As far as I can tell, you can nest tasks infinitum. It’s this task-nesting ability in combination with being able to surround tasks with notes and files and whatnot that makes Superlist stand out.

Instead of crowding the sidebar with each of my projects, I can create “task” lists, where each task is a project that has its own set of tasks, notes and documents. I am sure that this is more than doable in an app like Notion, but I’d have to build it and fiddle with the build until I got it right. Superlist works this way “out of the box.”

Superlist isn’t fully developed yet. There is no facility for putting a table in your notes, for instance. And it doesn’t yet use natural language for date assignments. I am confident that these and lots more features are to be added. In the meantime, it still seems to work great for me.

You can learn more here: https://www.superlist.com/

Steve