Can you (in Things) move tasks from one day to another (or other list) just by dragging. So wish Reminders has this feature.
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No one is downplaying AI. Every GenAI tool literally says that surprises, mistakes, and hallucinations are possible. That is not "reliable." Doesn't mean you can't use it.
But if you downplay the warnings the providers themselves make, you are entirely missing a key piece of using AI that these tools are bringing to your attention.
The one feature I wish 1 Password would bring back is local vaults and syncing over local network.
I do have some good uses for ChatGPT. I also find that the dumbest things trip it up. I asked it to calculate the number of business days between two days. It recognized that there were weekends and then proceeded to not exclude them in the calculation. That’s what I mean when I question the reliability.
It's possible, but not necessarly through dragging on all devices. But you have a move-function that do the trick on iPad and iPhone. You also can have more than 1 window open of the app in Mac for instance.
Like 1 window for Today, and another for Upcoming. Lots of choices how to use it.
That will never happen. They faced backlash when they ditched it and rightfully so.
Doubt strongly it will come back, as they removed it as they can't guarantee the safety of that, which was the reason they removed it in first place.
BusyCal - Because it offers better views and integrated reminders
AlDente Pro - To save my battery
Magnet - Because it should be in the OS
Bartender 5 - Because Apple f'd up the menubar with the notch
Lulu - Because you should be told when an app you don't know wants to network (free)
Hazel - Cleanup and proper uninstalls
CopyClip - Everyone should have a clipboard history (free)
StrongBox - Password manager that won't bend you over (true freemium, perpetual option)
And I wrote my own Shortcut for taking note scraps.
AlDente Pro - To save my battery
Magnet - Because it should be in the OS
Bartender 5 - Because Apple f'd up the menubar with the notch
Lulu - Because you should be told when an app you don't know wants to network (free)
Hazel - Cleanup and proper uninstalls
CopyClip - Everyone should have a clipboard history (free)
StrongBox - Password manager that won't bend you over (true freemium, perpetual option)
And I wrote my own Shortcut for taking note scraps.
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Thanks - will also look at some videos as £49.99 for the Mac App seems like a big investment.
I used them in the past and still use them on my Macs. But on the iPhone I like the month view with the month on top and the events for the selected day below. As Apple removed this view a few years ago I switched to Calendar 366 on my mobile devices.
If you want to get productive with your health this year, I highly recommend Heart Analyzer. It is the best I have seen with tracking your health. It has great widgets for iOS and WatchOS. It has a one time fee. I also highly recommend the app Workoutdoors. It puts the Apple App to shame. Like Heart Analyzer, Workoutdors has a one time fee.
Absolutely!
I didn't pay that much, it was a cheaper upgrade transition price if I don't recall wrong.
Since we're going there, mine are not entirely dissimilar:
- Things: For pretty much the same reason; clean, simple and keeps me organised.
- 1Password: Looked around when they moved to electron and subscription, but didn't find anything close; despite being an electron app it's really good (one of the few).
- Apple Calendar: Simple and does the job.
- Apple Notes: For all the admin related nodes (contracts, invoices etc).
- Apple Journal: Replacing Day One; super barebones but hope it improves at a similar rate to Reminders/Notes!
- Bear: For the rest of the notes and general rambling.
Assuming you're talking about Things, that's not a particularly outrageous price. It's the same as about 1 years of Omnifocus (non pro) or Todoist.
If Things were a subscription for a similar price I'd have paid $432 for the time spend using it
Really hope they never go subscription...TBH since I started using Bear, Notes has added a lot of functionality. On the whole not so much that Bear gives you that much different features, but how they work is. Obvious features are:
- Code blocks with syntax highlighting
- Tags for organising notes rather than folders (this is probably the big one)
- Ability to easily export / backup notes
- Backlinks / Table of Contents
- Markdown (if you like that kind of thing)
- Pretty formatting
- Quick open (just added this, and is great).
Yes, but on macOS it's a menubar app. I find it only slightly annoying not to have the window persist. A keyboard shortcut can be set to open it. Pretty good natural language input too. And duplicating events, which I use all the time.
Thanks for the suggestion. After looking more into it, I bought this app.For Pomodoro, I use Focus all the time:
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You can drag the widow off the menu bar to make it persistent. Bit clunky but could help.
While I agree it is doubtful, I’m not sure they can guarantee the safety of the cloud services. At least on my own system it’s my responsibility to secure the storage of it.
I have to correct myself here re Things.
Sometimes we don’t even think about what we do automatically 😌
It works great btw to drag a post to another area on iPad Mini as I there's 2 columns visible on Things.
On my iPhone Mini there isn’t, only 1. But I can of course drag posts to other areas as they show up down below. I had forgotten that. Don’t do most planning on iPhone. Just check offs.
People with larger phones might have 2 columns on that device too, then there’s no problem to drag posts around as I do on iPad and Mac.
Sometimes we don’t even think about what we do automatically 😌
It works great btw to drag a post to another area on iPad Mini as I there's 2 columns visible on Things.
On my iPhone Mini there isn’t, only 1. But I can of course drag posts to other areas as they show up down below. I had forgotten that. Don’t do most planning on iPhone. Just check offs.
People with larger phones might have 2 columns on that device too, then there’s no problem to drag posts around as I do on iPad and Mac.
damn maybe I’m boring / having nothing to do 😂, but I have no need for any task/organization apps outside of the default Notes and Calendar app.
I am fairly busy, but the last third party app like these I used was Evernote a decade or so ago.
I am fairly busy, but the last third party app like these I used was Evernote a decade or so ago.
i get targeted for motion all the time but can't bite the bullet on the cost. how long have you been using it for? what do you like most about it?
The price covers the app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. On the other hand, you could use the subscription model and pay a monthly fee instead. If you don't want to sync your data, I don't think you need to. Also, I believe you can set up your own WebDAV server if you prefer to have it sync to your own servers or other servers.
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Confirmed that you can indeed use your own sync server. You don't have to rely on Omnigroup's own server.
Source: https://support.omnigroup.com/docum.../welcome-to-omnifocus/#updated-in-omnifocus-4
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Way better than Siri, and getting better every day. For programming tasks, I barely have to modify it anymore when checking the code output. It has become a critical part of my workflow in key moments throughout my daily and weekly routines, but like any tool, it is just a tool, and it's up to the person who wields the tool to use it properly and responsibly. For me, it's more like a pair programming buddy that has taught me how to be a better programmer over the past year, it's handy at diagnosing esoteric error messages and giving me an itemized list to check against, and it's also really great at putting together complex regex and find commands. It's also a handy tool for jumpstarting research and finding a lot of good resources for various types of information.