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I've tried using Acreom for a couple of my projects. The app defo has potential. However, I could not wrap my head around their concept of "inbox". In Acreom, the "inbox" means all the unscheduled tasks. However, in my workflows, I often juggle multiple projects at once, and not all tasks have a set date yet, or I just want to do them "sometime in the future". The inbox is cluttered and useless as I see the same tasks repetedly until I schedule them.

In my head (and, I am sure, in the heads of other GTG users, too), inbox is just a parking lot for all the not yet organised tasks. Once a day, I go through my inbox, assign all the tasks to the coresponding projects and MAYBE schedule them. In this sense, Acreom does not support my workflow :(

However, as I see the upsides of having tasks intercalated with project notes, I'd consider giving Acreom one more go once a better task organising system is implemented.




That’s exactly what I think of as inbox as well. As a (I’ll admit, ugly) workaround, is there someway to have the default date set sometime in the far future?

I guess I’m just wondering if that’s technically possible since this app does look very nice, aside from your main feedback.


you're right that's something we need to improve. Thanks for the extensive feedback.




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