Looking for a perfect Android app for TSW/GTD use
13th March 2015
I have recently realized that my planning habits are quite similar to what The Secret Weapon promotes. However, my planning is not as elaborate and detailed/structured as TSW, and I am using several tools:
- Google Keep, an awesome note-taking and to-do lists application with a really good web-interface, and free;
- Trello, convenient lists/projects/tasks management platform (especially for group work), and free;
- Google Calendar, the de facto calendar standard for Android phones, and free;
- my A5 format weekly paper planner, and… the only not free component.
It is easy to see that I am using too many tools.
In an effort to use less tools, and also to try some of the features of TSW, I’ve performed a brief search for GTD/TSW-compatible Android apps.
TSW website is built around the Evernote app. However, I am not sure if this would be a good solution for me, as I have been already using Evernote since several years for longer-term note-keeping, and thus already have a bunch of notepads, notes, and tags there. Moreover, Evernote’s website mentions something about “offline notes” in the Premium (non-free) tier for mobile apps; this hints at the requirement to have internet connectivity to be able to work with TSW+Evernote efficiently through the day.
Oh, before I forget: all the 4 tools that I am using have their purpose, with overlap between Keep and Trello.
My A5 format paper planner (weekview compact 2015) is not a simple weekly planner; it has a structure that stimulates goal-oriented planning.
More specifically, it provides means to plan:
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