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Foreday vs a regular to-do list
A regular to-do list is a place to store tasks. Foreday is a place to decide what to do today. They solve different problems, and for some people a plain list is the better tool. Here is the honest comparison.
The problem with a long list
You add things all week. By Thursday there are thirty items, three of them are urgent, and the urgent ones are buried. You spend the first ten minutes of the day re-reading and re-sorting, and some days that is where the energy goes.
What Foreday does differently
- You do not organize. You type everything in one box. Foreday files it.
- It picks for you. The home screen shows 3 things for today, not everything you have ever written down.
- Nothing is lost. What you do not finish stays in your lists and is considered again the next day.
- It is calm. It is made to be opened once or twice a day and then closed.
When a regular to-do list is the better choice
- You already like your system and it works. Keep it.
- You manage a team or need to assign tasks to other people. Foreday is a personal app.
- You need complex projects with sub-tasks, dependencies and Gantt charts. Foreday keeps things simple on purpose.
When Foreday fits
- You get overwhelmed by a long list and end up doing the easy things instead of the important ones.
- You have a lot in your head and want to get it out without sorting it first.
- You want a daily answer to "what should I do today?" and then to stop thinking about it.
Price
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