Rituals: weekly options
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Matt
One of the biggest opportunities for Akiflow is to provide longer-term planning tools. Most task managers (including Akiflow) divide the world of tasks into, basically, today/tomorrow/this week/someday.
Sure, Akiflow has the "plan" feature where I can throw a task to the following Monday or whatever, but requiring a task to re-appear on a specific date is not always what you want.
Often, you want to look at different time horizons: this week, next week, the next few weeks, next month, next quarter, this year, etc. and bucket tasks into those general categories where you can hold them for future review and triage.
Functionality like this, which lets me plan/manage different time horizons would be game-changing and would make Akiflow the best choice for "single source of truth" for all the things I want to get done.
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Jessica Darling
+1 for this. WOuld love to be able to add something to a "backlog" or "to do someday list"
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Robert
A really good measure to probably consider with the weekly options is being able to see the Statistics on your review, and think there is two parts to this -
Review of week
Planning for next week
Jeson P
Robert: Thank you for sharing your idea about how we can improve and implement this in the future!
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Sjors
Maybe to add, Akiflow is a productivity workhorse it combines all your tasks in one which is amazing. However, I daily reflect on my day, how it went etc. So I journal / reflect. Also, if correctly my tasks contribute to my long term goals or are just simple todos. Currently you can only convert tasks into goals. However these smaller goals/important tasks contribute to bigger goals. It would be nice if you offer this goal hierachy option. And also be able to daily reflect with some notes, and do a weekly / quarterly / yearly reflection aswell. So you have all data in one. I can then go to a certain week and look what went wrong, why I did not achieve my weekly goals for instance and I can read through some of my notes how I felt etc.
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Sjors: Thank you for sharing your ideal approach regarding this feature!
Stefania
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B.
Stefania So happy to see this. Thanks for making time for it! How long does it normally take to move from Planned to In Progress? I’m sure it’s in a queue with many big items.
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Peter
Stefania Finally. We cannot wait for this feature to be released. Thanks Akiflow team for prioritizing this feature that can, in my view, be a game changer for Akiflow and help to distance it even further from the many competitors in this space. I have tested the new calendar function from Todoist and it was a disappointment to me. I wish Akiflow can crack the code on this.
Stefania
B.: it depends, I put "planned" when it'll be done in the next couple of sprints. This is planned for the sprint after the next one, and one sprint is usually one month, but it really depends on how long is the biggest feature we're releasing and other factors. :)
Stefania
Peter: Thanks Peter! I can wait for you to test it out and share some feedback. We're working on the UI/UX right now:)
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Nickie Vandenbrouck
I think having this functionality as an extension of the snooze feature would be a great way to upgrade the usefulness of snoozing and might make the use of these time horizons more intuitive.
When it comes to where to store/display these tasks, you could either have a whole separate pane like you would with the projects, and/or you could have it figure as the current snooze functionality does, allowing you to be able to see which tasks are upcoming during those time frames for each project separately as well.
Stefania
Nickie Vandenbrouck: Thank you so much for sharing Nickie, we are actually considering something very similar to what you are suggesting! I'll keep you posted :)
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Andriy Pelykh
I like this idea. Right now, I created recurrent event with todo list in description. But, it makes a total sense to have it in the Akiflow
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Patrícia
omg i need this!!
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B.
Yes, an absolutely FANTASTIC suggestion! Routine is the only app even close to doing this, but they associate only to certain weeks. I love your idea of variable time horizons like this. This is vaguely possible by just creating Projects and Tags as is done in the Time Sector System, but then you have to manually move all the tasks over and over as "Next Month" becomes "This Month" and "Next Week" and "This Week" etc. How amazing it would be to have those time horizons shift as part of the planning! We'd be able to see something planned a ways out get closer.
This would be great all by itself but perhaps that much more meaningful if we could connect those planned tasks to larger long-term objectives. Might be as simple as creating a project with an outcome, but to know we (for exmaple) aim to have a house bought in three months or a book written in a year, we could lay out some tasks and interim goals associated with getting there and see how those tasks of "This Month" "Next Month" and "Next Quarter" line up in that direction. I think TimeStripe does something similar here but leaves a lot to be desired in terms of UI. Akiflow, you have an opening! :)
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Peter
B.: Does anyone in this forum have experience or knowledge of an application that is easy to configure with the Time Sector System?
Like Dodge mentions where tasks are automatically moved between the different time sectors so for example "Next Month" becomes "This Month" "Next Week" becomes "This Week" etc.
I love the Akiflow UI and I dream that the team behind the app would support the Time Sector System.
It should be possible within the context of providing such a feature where we as users can add customized and personal time sectors to the "Upcoming" menu. So, for example, add columns like "this week", "next week", "this month", next month", "this term", and "future", etc. And then add some behavior for each time sector including the automatic move to next "time sector" when the time horizon shift.
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Peter: Yes, I’m familiar with the TSS but find it more laborious than helpful purely because one has to rework the folders all the time. You’re right that Akiflow could do this and do it really well. Right now the Routine and Timestripe are the only ones who really understand the benefits of thinking in buckets of time rather than buckets of topics — something Akiflow leans heavily toward in pushing us to schedule, but misses in considering larger blocks like weeks or months. I so much hope Akiflow looks into this!
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Dom Ioanna
I can't hit the +1 hard enough on this! I'm coming from a bullet journalling method with a pen and notebook, and migrating tasks to a specific week, month, quarter or even year was a huge part of short/med/long term planning.
I get that we can choose a specific date, it all that means is that all tasks drop in on the 1st of next month, or next Monday, rather than there being a list of tasks for that week which we can then assign to days or keep in a This week's tasks" section.
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Nick
Absolutely love this request.
Sunsuma made a good start towards something like this (plan out your weekly goals, and then you can link tasks towards that goal).
Would love to see something similar implemented here.
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