Legend

Lots of competitors in this space it seems. I had a similar idea, a todo list + calendar app listed below, but it&#x27;s interesting to see ideas converging on the idea of timeboxing your tasks.<p>Ever since Cal Newport wrote Deep Work, it seems like everyone wants to get on the deep work productivity train. I wonder who will win eventually though.<p>- www.getartemis.app (disclosure, my app)<p>- www.akiflow.com<p>- www.oltra.io<p>- www.levelteams.com

A decade or so, I did _everything_ in emacs. I was never more productive and I attribute it partially to the sort of flow that Legend seems to be trying to make.<p>Smartphones are what killed it for me. As I switched to using my smartphone + tablet more, it broke my emacs setup. I&#x27;m still trying to get it back.

99% of my incoming work happens in a combination of Slack, an SCM, Zoom and Jira. Maybe 1% of the time I get a task in from email (do this training, etc).<p>Overall it&#x27;s a cool idea, but I wasn&#x27;t able to quickly determine if any&#x2F;all of those things had support for task import.<p>Of course, I can just type in the tasks and schedule them that way too.<p>(I&#x27;m an SRE, not a founder or PM, so my workflow is likely a little different than most)

I started an account, but felt it wasn&#x27;t very compelling to actually get started using it. I&#x27;ve synchronized my email and calendar, but it isn&#x27;t jumping out at me how this will be superior to my current workflow (I use Things and Calendar on MacOS&#x2F;iOS, and they integrate very dumbly but well enough).<p>At the risk of sounding dumb, what is this supposed to offer that my workflow doesn&#x27;t have? I see it can support contacts and files as well, but I&#x27;m not sure if&#x2F;why I&#x27;d need that. I have all of that on MacOS&#x2F;iOS already, so when I add contacts or references to files it&#x27;ll come from iCloud or whatever. That&#x27;s fine for me. Is this for people with more disparate and less integrated systems? Am I missing out on something?<p>The main appeal to me is having task lists working more like documents; Things doesn&#x27;t support this and it&#x27;s fairly inflexible in that regard. I do wish I could plan projects and take notes a little more freely in there. But I&#x27;d also worry that having this freedom might be a distraction, too.

I wanted to try out the Linux app on Ubuntu (downloaded the .deb file), see how it compared to Obsidian (which is sadly a little awkward in terms of sync and config).<p>Unfortunately the desktop version is unusable - it automatically maximises itself and then gets stuck in a loop, constantly trying to resize. Trying to make the window smaller makes it go similarly crazy and it will just revert to filling the screen again.<p>That&#x27;s unfortunately a non-starter.

From the quick demos on the website this seems like something I would absolutely love.<p>However, after signing up, I&#x27;m presented with a big, blank, white document and have no clue where to begin or how things are supposed to link together. I closed it in less than 1 minute.

Interesting approach! Building an &quot;all-in-one&quot; workflow tool is difficult because as the feature list grows the app becomes bloated with user-facing features in form of buttons, dropdowns etc.<p>It&#x27;s cool to see a new design approach where user gets just about what they need at the time.<p>I&#x27;m building yet another workflow tool but with NLP doing the heavy lifting for the user. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acreom.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acreom.com</a><p>Excited to see where this all goes.

I gave this app a spin today and I really like what they&#x27;re going for. Unfortunately, I use Fastmail for email and calendars so I can&#x27;t take advantage of one of the key features. I hope they add support in the future. It&#x27;s a fresh take and I&#x27;d be willing to give it a serious try if I could sync my email and calendar!

All I want is a way to add tasks as items in my gmail inbox just like Google Inbox had, before they killed it. Does anyone make a Gmail plugin that adds that? I don&#x27;t want to use a whole different email client or add tasks to a separate task-only list off to the side.

That cost hurts<p>Still prefer Dendron, I get to own my data if it dies (please keep funding them ycombinator). Plus it looks like its going this direction already with api&#x27;s that are local first for people to build it in if they don&#x27;t.

Does anyone use notion and legend that can share if they are similar?

I would like to try this out on Android but the link goes to Google Play and I don&#x27;t link my phone to a Google account.<p>Any chance of an APK download?

Why is it so common to bunch email, todos, and calendars together? Is this based on some memory of a desk from the 1980s, where one might sit down to write a letter to one&#x27;s friend, check the calendar to see what date you should suggest meeting, and then mark on a sticky note that you need to get milk when you&#x27;re at the grocery store?

Is that org-mode for Android?

Here is a free tool that I made for better time-boxing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crushentropy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crushentropy.com&#x2F;</a><p>(markdown for planning your day)

Shit... I had something similar in my side project ToDo List...<p>It always happens, that some other guy had the same idea and already realized it before I started :-D

I am seeing &quot;deep work&quot; used more and more often, with many apps promising to help you achieve it. Is deep work the new GTD?

Seems interesting! Thinking of trying the free account once I get some spare time this week. Anyone here have experience with it?

I don&#x27;t get it. Is it a calendar? If you want to have no distractions. The phone has an off button.

Obligatory xkcd: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;</a><p>But also, I applaud this effort at simplifying workflows, recognizing how difficult it is to program around productivity where everyone seems to have a different way of doing things :)