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a scary thing to undertake when you do not know fully what you're getting in to.For anyone that has ever moved/switched anything (houses, jobs, etc.), it can be: So your mileage may vary.Įntering things into your new TMS is easy getting tasks out of your current system is a way more difficult task.

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I don't use a Mac for much of anything, except to upload something to iTunes every once in a while. I want to make sure I state that I'm coming from an iOS-only perspective (and primarily my iPhone). And this, as they say, is where things started to get interesting. So now, I needed to move things from OmniFocus to 2Do.

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What I came to realize later is that I just didn't take the ownership to learn it like I should have, and I didn't understand its full potential. And aside from some UI elements that I would like to see changed, it proved to be the system I wanted.

I looked at other options, but each had limitations that I couldn't handle and didn't have multiple integration points into iOS.Īnd that's when I saw it: 2Do. Remember the Milk hadn't been updated in a long time. Things didn't have enough reminder options for me. So with all of the apps that I currently had, I started looking at what each one could do. It's a bit of productivity addiction, but as long as I set aside the time to review how this works for my life, then I'm happy to do it. If I use a product and I'm unhappy with a feature (or lack thereof) or I'm not compelled or excited by it, I won't use it. It took time and effort that I could've devoted to other things, but I found it necessary to help me hone in on what I wanted and needed from a TMS on a daily basis. I spent a lot of time moving around in different systems, trying them out to see what did and did not work. Around this same time, I could see that work was going to be picking up and I needed to get a handle on things fast. The system I was looking for needed to be flexible, to handle the small task to the large project, and help push my TMS to the next level. For as much as I wanted to make my system fit OmniFocus, I didn't stop to think about what I needed to fit into my system. I even reached out to friends who had used OmniFocus for years to see what I was doing wrong. 2 It didn't integrate in the way I thought it should and I had difficulty conforming to a set system. I started wrestling with the looming feeling: while OmniFocus is great for some, it's UI design is stunning, and comes highly recommended: it just wasn't for me. My task management system was now three apps, which is far from ideal. About 2 months in, I found myself using not only OmniFocus, but also supplemented it with Due and Reminders. There were also things that I wish would have been incorporated from other apps to use in my system. And while OmniFocus is great at many things, there are several things that don't have feature parity between a Mac and an iOS device in their apps you almost need both to accomplish everything needed for task management. I was added to the beta program in TestFlight, which gave me basically a 'free trial' to see if I could make this work for me. So, in the fall of 2015, I started to dive into OmniFocus as my new Task Management System (TMS). There are many in the tech community that considered OmniFocus as the killer to-do app, and I had a bit of a curiosity based on all of the people I respected that were using it. I started thinking I needed to try something new. My brain wasn't thinking how the app seemed to want me to operate. After a short while, I was overwhelmed by all of the options and features. I wanted to see how well that worked, so I moved everything there.

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I first stumbled upon 2Do during its Free App of the Week promotion on the App Store in June of 2015.

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It's not in the same format as my site yet, but when I get more accustom to the app, I'll likely update it to the same format. Thanks to the power of Ulysses, I was able to create an ePub version of this post. I’ve tried a bunch of them- Reminders, Clear, Due, Wunderlist, Trello, Things -and through that journey I’ve found 2Do works best for me. Every person has their own idea of how they'd like to organize their life, which is why there seem to be as many task managers as there are people. Task management is a very personal choice.