Is this only meant for work tasks?

[finn-matti]

I just installed this and my first impression was that this is a very nice app, but that it is meant to only track work/job related tasks. Is this correct?

This article also seems to suggest this.

I guess you could use it without the scheduling feature?

When thinking about it, having two nested schedules seems to be needed: One for the actual work day and then another for the time I am awake on a given day. And then I would need to somehow assign tasks to either schedule (or both) so that tasks could flow to appropriate places.

Only tasks assigned to the work schedule would be used to reflect at the end of the workday, etc.

In this way you could have your cake and eat it, too: Handling work tasks and personal tasks within super-productivity...

... or I am just simply missing something in the setup phase.

[johannesjo]

There is a focus on work from a computer, but you can also use it for private stuff. Personally I use it for both.

[finn-matti]

How do you do that in practice? E.g. I have a couple of routine tasks - like cooking and taking out the dog before bed - that are not strictly scheduled but happen later in the day. Obviously, both of these tasks are also happening hours after I've ended my work day. But I can't really finish my (work) day either. And reflecting about my workday at midnight seems quite late.

(Sorry, I am normally not this dense, but understanding how people (like the dev of this very nice app) is using sp to deal with "tasks after/before work", would really help me. So thanks in advance for your time!)

[johannesjo]

I have a project called "Daily" that I use for these everyday things. I just finish the day before that and plan all work stuff not done for the next day. I usually plan non work related stuff for later the same day. Sometimes I do the reflection part twice a day if i worked on my side projects for longer, sometimes I just quickly click through the finish day stuff.

[johannesjo]

But I am curious to hear if you have any suggestions on how to make this appear smoother.

[finn-matti]

I liked the idea of @tobiasvandriessel: Make projects be part of areas of life and make them have their own schedules and maybe allow to toggle certain features on/off, like "end of day review".

This is a big task, I think, but maybe starting with hard coded work and life areas would work? The work area would retain all the bells and whistles the current app has and the life area would be somewhat simplified - if that makes sense.

Without any changes to the app, I think using it for personal stuff will always slightly work against its design. But I'll give using it as is a try, before judging it further.

[tobiasvandriessel]

I'm also curious, because I'd love to have multiple 'areas of life' or something so that all projects are located in one of those areas and you can easily filter all private things out when you're in the office, and vice versa.

[Rots]

Assuming the different contexts do not overlap, an "obvious solution" is to use different "workspaces" for work and for home. Currently though I don't think SP has an option to switch the configuration and data locations, so it would have to be done via export/import or externally to the app e.g. close SP, switch symlinks to different workspace, open SP loading the "other" configuration and data.