today's video I want to talk about why about a year ago I moved from todoist to sansama after
nine years with todoist this will be all covered in today's video so welcome if you are new here
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what was with todoist for nine years and I had a whale of a time it was a fantastic application
they provided pretty much the flexibility that I needed but also the list management nature
that has become so predominant in the space over the last couple of years but about two years ago
things changed for me that I needed to look an alternative to-do list application now I want
to talk about why I switched over so Brokenness into three parts foundations band holding nature
and new toolkit so let's talk about that in this video so first things last a lot of change for
me about two years ago I became a new dad I've begun employing somebody my good friend Stephen
who probably is editing this video and also structuring my days they needed to be a bit
more different and flexible than they were before now todoist did serve a solid use for a good year
of that period of time and I was struggling I looked at inward at what I call foundations
I looked and said am I doing something wrong productivity wise and I learned a little more
about myself about calendar blocking and finding it a bit more effective so that was quite helpful
in terms of Foundations that's something I always tend to start with it's like is this a tool being
the problem or is it me being the problem and that's how I tend to stick with an application is
because I don't necessarily blame it on the tool it's sort of like when football we we blame like
football managers for losses when it could be the players sometimes we don't think about that but
we do need to because it helps us to really swap stop switching tools and looking at it so I looked
at that firstly and I went it's not my foundations it's not what's changing it I had a massive change
in the way that I was working but it definitely wasn't the way I'm doing things at least in terms
of setup of application the next thing I looked at was that I needed a bit more hand-holding and what
I meant by that is I needed more structure in my days and whilst todoist offers a pretty fine-tuned
experience it relies a lot on me to sort of micromanage it versus Watson Sam offered which was
more attractive was the hand-holding nature of it and I had also invested a lot more on my calendar
tasks and I wanted them in one place whereas I would have to have used two experiences in one to
combine that with todoist I also never used a lot of the filtering abilities inside of todoist and I
I needed a bit more assistant in terms of planning my day that to do is didn't really have which is
not its fault because it does a lot of stuff but it doesn't do everything like every other app can
do so at the same time I needed help with support in managing my day and I found a good balance in
that instance armor because when I opened since Arma it structures it where I open it it says
today and it gets me started planning that day and it helps me plan ahead without overloading
myself in terms of how many tasks I add to a day and it also helped with the calendar side of stuff
too and really simplifying The Experience whilst I could have done that with todoist I found much
more value in it with sansama so actually the handhold image was pretty fundamental because
I had limited timer and reduce time in my day a new different type of day where it was being
interrupted more and also I had taken on more responsibility in my sort of day-to-day routine
now now it was quite interesting because this sort of new tool kit that I was using it sort of felt
different because I loved to do it for so long but I found it instantly a change in the way that
I was working and that's because I was structuring my day completely differently focusing more on the
time versus the output which I was doing a lot in todoist so I did learn about myself a couple
of times and I sort of found that the new toolkit was quite helpful in that now interestingly at a
similar time I wasn't taking as many notes anymore but I was still doing journaling so I moved from
Evernote to man and I also was spending a lot more time in email because I was lucky enough
to have an editor who was doing editing so I was spending more time in negotiations and projects
so superhuman became a much more beneficial application so I saw a dramatic investment in
the tools I was using which is what I typically recommend when you come to a quite a big change
in your lifestyle is sometimes a lifestyle change can inherit new tools if you see this earlier like
for example if you go and choose a new tool today if you see it in a three to five year
window map to the tool that you need but I when I first got todoist and Evernote and all these
other ones I actually didn't see this lifestyle change of becoming a more more serious business
and becoming a more structured day that I needed I didn't actually have that Insight so using the
tools for that long was quite decent so now my my sort of new toolkit had evolved and that's I
didn't think it would before now in terms of use of sunsama I have a video about how I do that
but overall it became a much more just organized way of working compared to todoist but in a sense
todoist is a much more open plan experience while Santana is a much more closed system where you
sort of have to follow their guidance on structure which for me was a dramatic Leap Forward it and
how I was working so in in general I found it to be a pretty decent bet in terms of how I was using
to-do list applications if you have any questions about how I switched over I'd love to hear them in
the comments below but largely my recommendation is to go through a three-part process research
trial and finally optimization research is a period of time in which you should spend
finding the best application matching it to your needs working out what the potential issues will
be in the future that you've used for previous applications and what this one solves aside
from that making sure you invest in that time is important because getting the return will help you
trialing that application you find for 90 days consistently to really make sure it's the best
bet for you and then optimizing it once you have it learning how other people use it and really
trying to take more advantage of the experience and the features within it so all in all those
are the steps that I typically go through when I switch applications I did a considerable amount
of research when looking into sansama and other applications around it I then looked at the trial
period I spent a full 90 days using it and I found it was sticky with me and finally optimization is
where I really tried to learn more about how to manage your calendar and your tasks together much
more effectively and applied it to sansama inside the application so I hope you found this video
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know in the comments if you have any questions and I'll talk to you all very soon cheerio
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