

I make changes in this regard much faster than I did earlier in my career. I learned, sometimes the hard way, that if I cannot confidently delegate to my senior team members then I have the wrong senior team. The ONLY thing I miss in OF is the review feature. Reminders does some things better than Things (pun intended ) and some not as good. I’m also learning to use Siri much more effectively for creating tasks. Once Monterey is released Reminders will be much better across my devices. Frankly, to my surprise, I’m finding that Reminders is now up to the tasks now that it has Smart List (OF Perspectives “Jr.”) and Tags. For what it is worth, I have a large number of projects varying in complexity across seven divisions and 200 employees.I probably have 30 or less project related tasks with real due dates. Of those, several are repeating tasks (“repeating maintenance tasks) due each day, e.g., log meals in MyFitPal.

You will notice that I only have 62 tasks with a date out of 154. I review the Today and Flagged every morning (others could do it the night before) to map out my day.Īs you can see below, I keep the number of tasks due today and/or flagged to a minimum. For projects that I want to start on (the equivalent of Things “when” date) I flag them (and they may have a due date).I created a “Due this Week” Smart list using the relative date filter.I add dates if needed during this process. Make sure I review all projects once a week without fail (weekly review).This means I have a lot of tasks without dates. I don’t add due dates unless the task really really must be done by then (except for what I call “repeating maintenance tasks-see below). I’m always more concerned with tasks that have an actual due/drop dead date. I have a couple of thoughts (probably worth what you’re paying for them ) that may be of some value depending on your needs. Apple Notes for business and personal notes.Combined with Apple Mail and Reminders, the three together offer a powerful, though not perfect, productivity suite. AN has the advantage of system integration, the ability to handwrite notes, type notes, Live Text, insert documents, scan documents, checklists, and more. Craft would be the better option for exporting to plain text but it lacks tables and I don’t like writing in a block-based system. While I don’t like the export limitations I can live with it. If the sync proofs reliable I’ll stick with AN. I’m giving AN another try for meeting and personal notes. Obsidian will remain my default app for all writing and research. Craft is a good solution but I’d rather stick with default apps IF possible. Using transclusion, while workable, is clunky and not efficient. The main reason is that I found Obsidian to be clunky to use for taking meeting notes that need reference to key documents. With iOS 15 I decided to give it another try. I’ve written several times that I abandoned AN.
