This is an electronic version of a "bring forward" filing system that has been around for many decades. An older friend of mine showed me his "bring forward" file: it has a file for each month and also a file for each of the coming four weeks (labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 because some months have five weeks).<p>He just puts things - like bills, for instance - in the appropriate folder depending on when they're due. And then once a week or month has passed, it gets rotated to the back of the box. It's a great approach; a digital version would replicate the same concept and would be particularly useful if it incorporated the notion of attached documents such as invoices.
Looks like an interesting idea, I'll give it a try.<p>My first thought is this a perfect concept for family planning type stuff. Not planning TO HAVE a family, but planners FOR families or small groups or whatever. It's a perfect place to drop things like vacations or other stuff that will happen in a few months, but we all need to know about.<p>Could use something like "This Weekend" in that list as well. Maybe between "Today" and "Tomorrow" and before "This Week" or maybe after?<p>OK, tried it out already (because I'm procrastinating). Good concept I like it, simple and clean. I don't love the colors. Also when I go to add something to one of the things I'd rather just click in the lines rather than have to hit the big + at the bottom of the screen.
The concept is very appealing to me. I have always avoided the use of planners that expect you to set exact times for completion. It just seems so unreasonable that anyone would be able to be that precise all the time about everything.<p>I did find two typos under the FAQ that you will probably want to correct.<p>"Why use Stongweek?" needs and "r" in there and in the answer to the question you also make the same spelling error. Purely coincidental or maybe cut and pastey.
This is alright but Todoist (and likely others) more or less already has ways to do this sort of thing. The typical procrastinator simply keeps pushing the unsavoury todos until they accumulate and then it’s game over.<p>In the end, my problem is not really prioritisation, but the anxiety and inner conflict that comes from feeling the <i>external obligation</i> to do something. I’ve dealt with it with meditation at times but it’s a continuous struggle, like dieting.<p>I wish there was a way of <i>selling</i> tasks to my brain. Something that could turn items from “YOU HAVE TO DO THIS!!” to “hey, wouldn’t it be cool to do this?”
About the app itself, I would love for it to be available also as a widget so that I can see the next few upcoming tasks in the pull-down menu.<p>To be most useful the widget should allow you to select what to show. E.g. can choose just next upcoming thing, or next n number of things or whole day etc
Can U suggest a feature that I’ve been looking for in a TODO app for a long time. Tasks that are periodic but not urgent. Like changing the filters on your heating system every 6 months, adding fertilizer to the garden every 3 months, etc. Then when you have some time to spare you can easily see these kinds of tasks that you normally forget.
It looks like the Bullet Journal but simplified.<p>I found the paper version of the bullet journal very effective because every day you have to think about what you can really do. Organizing with daily, weekly, monthly prevents mixing deadlines which is the root for me of pushing back on tasks because I don’t have clarity to decide what can be done now.<p>I made an app out of this concept
<a href="https://bulletweek.app" rel="nofollow">https://bulletweek.app</a><p>Obsviously there could be as many app as ways to get organized so every system and apps requires to adapt and change habits.<p>Edit:
On iOS 14 I can’t get back on the main screen clicking on the top left home icon with StrongWeek
While it's tempting to think "mmh, another todo app?" - I must say that as a professional procrastinator and prolific never-to-be-read-again note taker, I'm drawn to the concept. Clear and concise. Might just work!
This looks pretty good and I'll give it a shot, I've been fairly keen on disabling notifications in general so the lack of them here is more of a selling point because I don't feel like I'm handicapping myself.
For anyone interested here is the TOS[0]. I always like to read them before I install/use something, especially if the something is free.<p>The support email is a gmail account, which I guess is fine. The TOS looked rushed/boilerplate with little updates. Apparently the app may collect your location, and there’s also errors like:<p>> Our servers are located in. If you are accessing our Services from outside<p>And<p>> No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than __________.<p>At least these issues can be fixed:<p>> 11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary<p>As an aside, I’d be interested to know if the tasks/user entered data stays local to the device or if it is sent/synced to some server(s)?<p>Edit:
As another aside, my adblockers prevented the TOS iframe from loading and it appears they were blocking this, apparently WIX related, url: www-strongweekapp-com.filesusr.com<p>[0] <a href="https://www.strongweekapp.com/tos" rel="nofollow">https://www.strongweekapp.com/tos</a>
This is an interesting concept and reminds me of some of the best parts of Covey and Michael Hyatt planners.<p>Two small suggestions: let me add a new task by tapping anywhere on the screen (e.g., tap Today than tap anywhere in the middle of the screen), and support swiping back. It feels a little claustrophobic. The data model makes a lot of sense though.
Wow, I thought about it the other day, I never understood why we organize our work in tasks or todos and so on when we fundamentally try to organize what we're going to work on in the next days, months, sprint, half, whatever.
Reminds me a bit of TeuxDeux (<a href="https://teuxdeux.com/" rel="nofollow">https://teuxdeux.com/</a>), specifically the rollover feature. But the addition of “next week” or “next month” is cool.
I like the idea. I have some personal preference on the interface:
1) rather than having to click to see all my todos, I prefer to have them on front page (Today: ..... Tomorrow: ......This week:......) either collapsed list or a flat list; or Have a tab to switch between today/thisweek/thisyear.
2) need to have swiping for going back. Swiping is so much better than click.
3) when 'add new', the large proportion of screen is showing a selection user will mostly not going to interact. It was a bit confusing at first sight.
I don't know if that's really a either/or question with scheduling timespans and due dates, and warrants a separate app.<p>When I add a task to Todoist, the suggested due dates are "Today", "Tomorrow" and "Next week", which already fills my need for rough grained due dates (since as a procrastinator I rarely even think about next month or next year in terms of todos). I highly suspect that it's not the only to-do list app that does it like that.
This is a great idea, and I wonder if there is a complementary product of a calendar that has a similar scale - detailed by the hour for the next three days, then by the day, week, and month as things go out further. It would be an interesting way to see your future calendar at the right level of granularity (though of course with the ability to zoom in).
as someone that uses the "notes" app built into my iOS and OSX devices, what utility would I get out of this?<p>I just go and write "ok" as a prefix for every bullet point that I complete<p>I <i>feel</i> like I procrastinate, but I mean not really? My ideas are converted to money within weeks, which is the general goal for me, whereas most people I know squirrel around for months or years on just the name of their website or brand or limited liability company, or do some other completely ineffective thing with ineffective people and can't tell.<p>Whether its money, administrative, or other goals or juggling family or other obligations, what benefit would I get from this app, or other note taking apps?<p>Can anyone relate to what I wrote and also gained outsized benefits from structuring their notes in one of these other ways?