Lukas Gregor When the traditional to-do list is no longer suitable, or even boring, it is possible to look for another way to store and sort individual "to-do" joys. How about using the famous Eisenhower principle, better said the quadrant?
This thirty-fourth American president divided his tasks into four squares, all of which were in one large one. The upper half (quadrants I and II) contained important items, the lower half (quadrants III and IV) unimportant. On the left (I and III) were urgent matters, on the right (II and IV) were non-urgent. Naturally, you should primarily devote yourself to quadrant II and, of course, to the first, on the contrary, the four should rob you of your time as little as possible. And actually a trio that looks important, but is actually just playing.
You can also find the principle of four quadrants in Stephen Covey's books, I myself mention it during trainings and draw attention to the fact that the second quadrant, paradoxically, receives the least attention from us, even though it is the most important. Eisenhower's principle makes sense, on the other hand, I can't quite imagine myself setting or accepting tasks that I perceive as non-urgent and unimportant to then work on them over time. Therefore, I completely understand the decision of the developers who in the application Quadrant they named the individual quadrants so that it hit us better/more (Do First, Schedule, Delegate, Really?!).
And as you can already deduce, Quadranto will be a task manager that does not use any project breakdowns, you simply pour items into individual quadrants and try to do the first and second quadrants as a priority. However, to avoid flooding one screen, you can create multiple lists in the program, perhaps by role (as I did), and have these four quadrants for each. And what more. You can name them differently, so actually an application built on the Eisenhower principle may have almost nothing to do with him as a result.
I tried to follow the principle and for a while used the application as the main task management service. I admit that it came in handy when I discovered it, I was just looking for something that would significantly simplify my system. Resp. I flirted with whether it was still possible. And probably yes. Quadranto looks very nice, it's easy to use, and at first glance you can see things divided into boxes according to those that are really burning, which are important, but which you have delegated and which you rather think about. The concept is excellent. The application also allows you to add reminders, so you can set the date and time when the item should be reminded.
Quadranto will integrate with Apple's Reminders. Here is a bit of a difficulty. The advantage is that you can see upcoming tasks right from the notification center. The disadvantage is that a single Quadranto list is created in Reminders, and you can see all the items from the Quadranto application that are divided in it in one pile. But it's actually a detail, because the application is not listed on Reminders. It has its own iPhone application, soon it will also have an iPad application. The iOS version is also very nice, I would say that new tasks can be entered relatively quickly (but not necessarily as I am used to from OmniFocus).
synchronization via iCloud. I still didn't fully understand this service. Sometimes it runs briskly, other times I wait a long time for data to be transferred. And I noticed it painfully often with the Quadranto. It would be a shame if it was handled via Dropbox...
When I have named the errors, I will also draw attention to the incorrect display of diacritics, or the font is not adapted to our language, which I have already pointed out, and we are working on a change.
And now some of my experiences.
First of all, I had to get used to writing notes for assignments (it's not possible and it's a shame). I'm also used to sending emails directly to OmniFocus and having a task from them. The only thing you can do here is to drag the mail to the Mac version of Reminders. The task will also appear in Quadranto, but without a link to the mail. To get to it from the quest, I would have to open the Reminders.
However, I did not feel any significant flaws during the process. If I want to discard something quickly, I usually put it in my main list and in the Consider folder. When sorting, I will already decide if I will move somewhere and where.
Quadranto is at the beginning and I think the application will continue to improve. I will follow her. I like the concept and believe that there will be those who are more comfortable with complex To-Do programs.
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On Wednesday, I used it as a high school exam :D
The Gneo application follows a similar principle, but it does not have a client for OSX.
I will write about Gneo. I'm still testing for now. It doesn't have an OSX client, however it does sync with Evernote.
Anyone using on OSX?
I use it on OSX and I am very satisfied. I like that it can use iCloud for sync and system reminders, so you don't have to have it on iOS and still the phone shows reminders.