Posted by zesfy 4 days ago
I’m the founder of Zesfy, a productivity app that I’ve been developing over the past few years. It’s designed to seamlessly integrate your tasks with your calendar, allowing you to transform your to-do lists into actionable events in just seconds. Here are some of its key features:
- Task Progress: Automatically update your progress based on subtasks completed
- Step: Create step-by-step breakdown of the subtask
- Target: Organize tasks with due date
- Session: Insert multiple tasks to calendar event
- Space: Filter event from specific sets of calendars
I recently introduced new features that often missing from other productivity apps: the ability to set both “Do” and “Due” dates. With these features, you can effortlessly plan your tasks for the day while keeping track the upcoming due dates. What makes Zesfy unique is it separates tasks you’ve planned and those that are already scheduled in your calendar, giving you a more organized and flexible workflow.App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zesfy-planner-calendar/id64799...
I also use Things as others have mentioned but for more ad hoc tasks and reminders. 2do is great for my daily routine tasks and others that are recurring.
- GTD, so I can keep track of Projects' tasks, and what I can work on next.
- Index
- Goals with due dates
- Projects with due dates
- Hierarchical Tasks with due dates
- Today with Time Blocking
- Timeline to visualize progressThe Today's time blocking and timeline visualization are critical, imo.
But I couldn't find an app that integrate all of that. I made a mockup of something I might build in the future: https://i.imgur.com/h0zDdOy.png
I believe you should try to have case studies or some sort of Customer Archetype/Profile on the landing page.
Who is this App for?
The interface (from the screenshots) does look clean, but in my experience, apps/software that help people “get things done” are better off with more contrast colors, prominent design differences between modules, etc. The low-contrast Pantone-blushed neomorphic-ish design becomes a slippery, harder target to hit when used in tools that should do their job and get out of the way.
I just keep a private repo called 'mylife' and everything goes in it, my private notes/journals/etc are just text file git commits in the same repo.
That said, if I was looking for a new system, outside of my control, I'd def. check this out.
I developed Zesfy because I needed a mobile app to manage all my work, but I couldn’t find one that met my needs. What the review process look like if you're on mobile? Are you using a specific app?
I use the actual issues system in the forgejo UX(or github.com or whatever VCS UI).
So in my forgejo instance, where most of my code is, I add projects for things even without code, if they will be a long-running project. For instance lets say I have a fabric arts(knitting,etc) hobby, I'll have a repo just for fabric arts. Issues/tasks/things I want to do will be issues in the knitting repo. I might or might not have many if any files in the git repo.
For instance, I was helping a friend with a home improvement project earlier this year, so I created a repo, gave them access to it and I documented what I was doing, etc. They could follow along or not as they saw fit and I didn't have to do anything other than document my work like I usually do.
I used to use Fossil-SCM for these things, but it's just annoying enough to setup when you have 100 fossil repo's and you can't easily tie them together with a global list,etc, so I recently moved to forgejo.
As for what I want to do today, they have due dates, so they will sort those due soon towards the top of the global issues assigned to me list. Likewise within each project. But I generally try to organize my life such that due dates for things are rare, and I can just work on whatever floats my boat that particular day. Hence why my Calendar app gets very little use.
Most of what I need the mobile apps are good enough. I don't do a LOT of mobile compute though. Mostly it's just seeing the latest errands/grocery issue(s) from my Forgejo instance while I'm in town.
If I think I'll need offline or something, I can use a git client and download repo's, but that's a very rare thing.
I love that you’re treating tasks as calendar events. Tasks take time, so that’s how it should be.
Each morning I create a daily agenda. I pull in my calendar entries. I also pull things I plan on doing from my todo list. I generally work off of my daily agenda.
When the day is over I put everything with doing back to the todo list.
** PROG [#C] Meeting with Bob and Alice
SCHEDULED: <2024-10-23 Wed 18:00-18:30>
That's a TODO item in the PROG state (TODO->PROG->DONE, I like 4-letter words to keep the columns aligned) with priority C, and the meeting is scheduled from 1800 to 1830.Clicking on the date or calling `org-agenda-list` which in my instance is bound to `C-c a a` will show something like this:
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Wednesday 23 October 2024
8:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
10:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
12:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
14:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
16:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
17:13 ┄┄┄┄┄ ◀── now ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
2024-10-21: 18:00-18:30 Scheduled: PROG [#C] WAF Updates
18:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
20:00 ┄┄┄┄┄ ┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄
2024-10-21: TODO [#D] Issues from deployment
Thursday 24 October 2024
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) this doesn't sync my work office365 calendar. I can sync Jira tickets though :) > I’m wondering if there are any apps that combine the functionality of a todo list and a calendar with the concept of a daily agenda.
Org mode (emacs)REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri SCANFROM [float(2024,10,21)] AT 08:45 MSG %"Complete that thing%"%
where float is: FSET float(y,m,d) trigger(MAX(realtoday(), date(y,m,d)))
When I finish it, I delete it, or replace the floating date with the actual date if I want to keep track of when I completed it.
Notion is great, but I too find the extra work distracting and unnecessary.
Not affiliated, just been trying it out for a month now. Developer has been very responsive as well.
https://www.sunsama.com/blog/time-blocking
More importantly, it offers a guided daily ritual to help through it gently, and make it a habit. This is shown in the second half of the blog post.
Not saying all SaaS = bad, but for the functionality it provides, there are boatloads of cheaper options out there.
Value is relative, so maybe I'm also just too poor.