I’ve written plenty about apps I use out of the scant writing I do on this site.¹

But while I love to think about my personal productivity system, there’s lots of good tools out there beyond what I use that are worth being on others’ radar.

The biggest reason why I haven’t so much as tried most of these options isn’t because they seem to have any particular flaw. But it’s been seven years since I last seriously considered leaving OmniFocus. I’m very, very, very satisfied. I’m not interested in even humoring the idea of moving task apps. And everything else in my productivity environment kinds of flows from my use of OmniFocus. But I can still appreciate when I see an appealing option in the task/productivity space.

I recently saw Godspeed recommended. It’s a pretty neat looking task app. I like the idea of it being totally keyboard driven. I think the hat tip on this goes to Robb Knight (though my recollection isn’t perfect).

I never kicked the tires on Wunderlist back when it was around, but the makers of it are back to make Superlist. It’s worth knowing the existence of.

NotePlan has been around for awhile now, but it seems to have more steam than ever lately from the people I see posting on forums, blogs, Mastodon, etc. I like keeping things in their own bucket, but if you’re looking for a do-it-all app, this has long looked like one of the best options.

When I was last looking at leaving OmniFocus, I was weighing it against Things. I actually bought Things on all platforms in hope of setting family members up on it (through Family Sharing). It’s a great app, it just turns out I find a lot of value in the ‘heavier’ features of OmniFocus. Also, the way I use projects makes a ‘progress bar’ an indicator I don’t want to see.

The most interesting app I’ve seen come around lately is Twos. I actually downloaded and tried this one (though I knew before doing so that it wasn’t going to have a permanent place in my life). To be honest, the gameifcation in it is weird. I feel like some essential feature (like trash!) being gated is bad too. But it’s an app that I could recommend pretty easily to students because of how featureful it is without paying any money.

There’s a category of apps that aren’t full to-do-lists, but are a lot simpler in their presentation. I’ve had Streaks for awhile (though I don’t actually use it a ton, and I’m not faithful about keeping any streaks on it right now). I recently saw Did I Do, an app in a similar vein that I don’t see a need for personally, but is interesting nonetheless.

As always, none of these are referral links; these are all just things I sincerely wanted to share that might be of interest to anyone who has read other productivity posts, but isn’t sold on the specific tools I’m using. There’s an overabundance of great productivity tools out there beyond these, but these have been on my radar as neat options the last few months.