So have you been curious of what task manager Matt D'Avella uses
Well, it is an application called to do and this is felt slightly weirdly
I actually had to ask Thomas Frank for this one because I actually didn't know the
Application which may come as a surprise to many of you guys, but thanks to Thomas for pointing me in the right direction
Now today I will be checking out to do and going into a bit more detail about how this application works
And I guess why Matt may have gone with this application
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Okie-dokie folks, so this itself is to do now as I said to do is spout teUX deux
so it's slightly differently spelling and the first thing that you'll notice is this very clean interface
Now this is available through web and it's also available on iOS and this application really tries to do what?
Week plan does this is another more sort of I'd say specialist application
But as you can see it has your sort of week ahead
Allowing you to in items. You can also create lists down here. Let's start with this element up here
This is obviously your week plan
So you can actually go and scroll through your next week ahead. So for example
This is Monday. So I may say Easter Monday
break
So it's very simply just adding text inside of here
And as you can see, you can tick off items and you can even have this
Flying cat appear so it's very simply just by clicking them then you get rid of them
So no checkboxes nothing, too
Extravagant here, but if I went to press edit
You wouldn't even get an option to add anything like a due date because you obviously on it
so if I wanted for example to add a
recurring task I could
So I could say take out bins
every week and when I press ENTER
That is now a recurring task and as you can see, it's got an option
For the recurring task where you can actually see the task
You can edit the title of it and you can see that it's going to be every week on a Wednesday
Now you can do this for every day every week every two weeks and every year and you can use that natural language input
To create that task now in the top right hand corner, you can go and find your recurring tasks at any given time
So that's obviously something that quick access allows you to do
Now one of the things before we move on is there is a subscription
I'm counting on their 30-day free trial now the 30-day free trial is
obviously gonna get you up until for me here at least May the 10th, but then you get a
Skeptic plan, which is $3.00 per month
Roughly the same prices tick tick and a believer plan, which is $24 a year, which is $2.00 a month
So a fairly reasonably priced to do list application as you can imagine it can get a lot more expensive
But I see this application being very minimal
So I don't think it's it's it's dramatic use is going to be there and I'll compare it to another abrogation
I'm actually reviewing later this week and
Terms of the pricing because I see these more sort of clean interface applications coming out
so one of the things that a lot of people like to do is have a little bit of focus time and for example
Let's say you don't want to see an overwhelming
List of tasks for the week
I can go and minimize this and if I go into a smaller window I
Can shrink it and you can actually see per day and any of the list below
So that's one way to make this a little bit smaller
now one of the things you can do to customize this is actually go into settings and
As you can see you can see all of your details. You can see your email and where the data is being used
So for example, you can request backups, but you can also change the color as well
so for example
I can actually choose a very specific color of blue maybe trying to get closest to
Our key productive blue and that's where you can enable the flying cats
and if I press save that color comes into play and you can choose from so many different colors, obviously and
That makes it look a lot neater now
If I press this home option it obviously brings it back to the Friday
And if I go to this option over here I can skip forward a long time. So for example, I could say the 26th
27th and I could say baby arrives here
So you can even add your calendar items in here and as you can see, it's actually bringing forward the takeout bins as a grade
Recurring task. So one of the things I wanted to point out is this experience down here and this is just very simply lists
So for example if you wanted to have an ongoing
shopping list
You could do right down here and you could start adding items straight away
And you can add many more lists if you want just by double-clicking on each of the list titles and at any given point if
I want to hide this away
I can and just have the focus up here and I can even go ahead and press this plus button to add additional
List and I can scrub all the way across them
And this is something that might be useful if you have static checklists that are becoming useful as you need to access them
You
So as you can see here you can naturally start adding as many lists as you like
Which means it's really easy access
To be able to get all the stuff you need when planning now
One of the cool things you can do is you can start dragging between different items
and this is what a lot of people like so I can for example drag this one here and I could for example
Be able to add and attach any things I was planning to go to the shops with and if I take them off
I can naturally get rolling on it. Now one of the things you may want to do when you're sprucing up
these list titles is on the Mac at least go ctrl command space and
Add a shopping cart to it. So you can maybe make any of these lists look a little bit more colorful
And as you can see the update here allows you to scrub all ahead and find any of the other lists that you have
now one of the other applications that I wanted to mention is an application called Claro now as I said
I will be reviewing this separately
But as you can see, it's a very similar experience to this although a lot more minimal now
Maybe mat would probably like this one a little bit more
But as you can see, it works in a very similar fashion
without the actual ability to go ahead and add lists below now as you can see you can start adding things like
You know take bins out
Etc. However, this application is still very early days. It actually doesn't have any recurring tasks
It doesn't have any lists and it only has an ability called highlights
But I'll probably do a full feature on this soon
So you guys can get a better understanding of it
But that one is a lot more expensive at five dollars if you want my opinion
I think the reason that map uses this one is because it's a clean interface and it works very well in being able to create
These lists below and being able to drag them above
Maybe I wanted to create a list called projects
Said I could see any of my projects at any given time I could go ahead and do that
I could even add an additional list for any tasks that I wanted to go ahead and do at any time
but obviously there may be like
Second-rate tasks and I can add them here
And what I could simply do is keep it tally of them and then when I need to drag them up the top here
So really love the fact this is a really simple application and actually isn't too intrusive
And keeps it not too complicated
but I guess for the same price of three dollars you could get something like tic tic, but it doesn't have this sort of very
Holistic or overview, but I can imagine with an update it probably would
Anyway, folks. I hope you found this overview useful
As I said, this sounds a 30-day free trial included in the link in description
But I can definitely see why Matt uses something like this as a minimalist. It's keeping it simple
It's maybe not going to overwhelm with the larger to-do list application
And definitely this is something I'll probably look to review more of in the future
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