I think the core issue is that:<p>- Calendars are good at appointments but bad at everything else.<p>- Day planners are good for jotting down what you're working on and for revisiting what you did last week/month, but if you put anything with a deadline in your day planner you're bound to forget it. And if you have a ton of notes that relate to a single project, where do you put them?<p>- To-do lists tend to accumulate tasks and then you declare TODO bankruptcy, delete everything, and start over.<p>I'm convinced it's possible to merge these concepts intelligently, in a way that hasn't been done before. An app that has a free-form day planner, but you can still tag items with a due date, tags, etc so you can still see which deadlines are approaching.<p>You want to be able to zoom-in and zoom-out in your "tree" so you can do high level planning but you also want to be able to indent and add as many notes/ideas as you want without losing track of the bigger picture. With real-time multiuser editing and end-to-end encryption. That's what we're building with <a href="https://www.thymer.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.thymer.com</a>
Heads up that "diary" isn't used in the US ("calendar" is). In the US diary is something someone writes like "Dear Diary" or the "Diary of Anne Frank"
having 1 go-to tool / system never worked for me.. My favourite setup for years used to be plain text files which I'd use for brain dump, tasks etc. as it was flexible, simple and I owned my data. Though it had its own shortcomings and I still ended up using some other tools on top of it, not to mention the tools your team requires you to use.. Your whole information / time management setup becomes a mess very quickly.<p>Why not integrate these systems into 1 lightweight interface and make it collaborative and integrated? I'm trying to scratch my own itch with building <a href="https://acreom.com" rel="nofollow">https://acreom.com</a>.
I’ve ditched traditional productivity tools in favor of visual tools like Bleep (<a href="https://bleep.is" rel="nofollow">https://bleep.is</a>) or Kinopio (<a href="https://kinopio.club" rel="nofollow">https://kinopio.club</a>). Haven’t looked since.<p>It’s so liberating not to have a mountain of tasks that I’ll never get to and instead enjoy time creating a visual space for things I care about.
I do like that page that's shown in the article. It looks like it has a nice flexibility between putting meetings/events at specific times on days, blocking out periods, to-do lists that can be sketched out for the week, and a catch-all space for things without times.<p>Does anyone know what planners have a layout like that?
That's not a great approach.<p>I'm in a client facing role, so my calendar ("diary") is busy. I couldn't give that up.<p>Obviously my inbox exists, and some things get handled straight out of there without ever hitting my inbox or my notes/todos.<p>Planning and executing specific tasks/deliverables is all handled in OrgMode, which is God's own to-do list.