![]() ![]() ![]() These are not limited to academic skills and include some of the most widely agreed-upon and most important SEL skills, like self-awareness, relationship building, and personal safety. When I first started blogging, one of the subjects I tackled was the rivalry between to-do apps Things and Wunderlist. I struggled to figure out which of them was best suited to my needs, and which offered the best balance between capability and simplicity.Īs it turns out, it wasn’t them - it was me. That entire system of task management isn’t aligned with how I think of productivity. Nevertheless, I like to keep my finger on the pulse of productivity software, and I do still use Reminders for the basic task management scenarios where it is superior to a Bullet Journal. In the hopes of finding a replacement for Reminders, I recently took some time away from my usual system to try out a few new task management contenders: GoodTask, and Clear. To be fair, Clear was actually released way back in 2012, where it held the #1 paid app spot worldwide, but I hadn’t given it a fair chance way back then. At the time, I found it simply too lean…too many missing features to justify a transition, despite its killer aesthetic and delightful interaction animations. In any event, my first priority was evaluating the core functionality of the apps. Both have iOS and Mac apps available, and both boast about seamless cross-platform sync, so the playing field would appear to be level. The reality was unexpectedly complicated. Clear provides its own sync via iCloud, and consequently it works and feels very seamless. To me, those represent a bare minimum of functionality without which I cannot manage my tasks the way I naturally want to in these kinds of apps.īeyond the basics, GoodTask ropes in limited Calendar integration, and a custom URL scheme for integrating with apps like Launch Center Pro.Ĭreating repeating tasks with custom schedule.Adding reminders for tasks, both time and location based.Creating tasks and organizing them into lists.GoodTask is an extension of Reminders, so everything you can do in Reminders can be accomplished in GoodTask as well. The calendar integration is functionally superficial in that you cannot add, remove, or modify calendar events, but visually it provides a great deal of satisfaction to be able to see both your calendar events and tasks in a single app. On either platform, GoodTask displays this info in either a Day, Week, or Month view, and there’s also a holistic Tasks view that contains everything, albeit not very usefully - more on that later. While I’m okay with the lack of editing/creation capabilities for the calendar events in the time-based views, I do wish that there was a way to at least open the Calendar app from GoodTask. ![]() ![]() As an overview, seeing those calendar events is terrific since it means I don’t have to keep two apps open, but clicking an event in GoodTask is a dead end: there’s no link to the event in your calendar app, or a link to Maps for finding the location.Ĭlear eschews almost every feature that Realmac Software considered extraneous to the process of managing tasks (for better or worse), which means that beyond creating tasks and lists, you cannot do much. Task reminders, for example, were added recently but can only be configured to trigger at a specific time, not a place. Recurring tasks of any sort are also absent. Sharing is entirely impossible, meaning that having a communal grocery list with your significant other/roommate/family/etc. is one task that cannot be accomplished with this app. More Reminders Benefits: Siri and Web Access To me, those ommissions make Clear functionally limited in a way that impacts my usage in very tangible ways - a shared grocery list is one of my most used lists, for instance, and I often set reminders for myself while I’m out to trigger when I get home. ![]()
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