What is Reddit's opinion of Nirvana?

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I use Nirvana. It’s free to start and only like $60/year if you decide you want all the features. I think the free version only allows you to have five projects and three reference items at a time, which works well for me.

It’s based on the Getting Things Done model, so you have a variety of ways to nest tasks and notes under projects and tags. You can also assign a time block (e.g. 15 minutes for a simple task so that if you find yourself with time to kill before a meeting you can knock it these types of tasks) and location (e.g. podcasts to listen to during your commute or things you can research from your phone when waiting in a doctor’s office).

As for a paper planner, that serves as a way to jot things down during meetings because it’s seen as rude to use a device. When I get back to my desk, I enter the info into Nirvana immediately and throw the paper away. This prevents me from using the paper version (with to-do items mixed with reference items and god knows what else) as a task list. I’ll end up cherry-picking the items that are the most fun instead of tackling them in the order of priority.

/u/MindOfMetalAndWheels I recommend you give Nirvana a shot. You mentioned that you've somewhat drifted away from GTD, but this application feels a lot more smooth and relevant right now. If anything, give it a try and let me know what you think.

I was in a similar situation a week ago. I've tried out a ton of GTD/Task management software (Todoist, Remember the Milk, Omnifocus, Evernote, etc) and by far the best tool I've come across was Nirvana. However, not only has there not been much development on the app for a while, but as you've said it isn't the most secure because it stores everything in the cloud.

That's when I found (as far as I know) the only "privacy-centered" GTD software out there: Everdo. Everdo is basically a carbon copy of Nirvana, but I've been pretty happy with it.

Long time (4yr+) OmniFocus user here. Since I had a career change half a year ago and now almost exclusively use Linux during the day, I recently searched for a tool to replace OF2.

I tried everything web-based I could find, but most solutions didn't work well for me. Todoist, Nozbe, RTM, and other well recommended tools often lack more advanced GTD functionality like starting dates, sequential vs. parallel projects, good filtering and other ways to unclutter your projects/focus views (which is the main reason, I use GTD anyhow, so these functionalities are essential for me). Toodledo seems to be one of the oldest and most advanced web-tools for to-do stuff, but I couldn't stand the clunky UI.

I settled down with Nirvanahq https://www.nirvanahq.com/ two months ago and couldn't be happier. There's a free version, but I directly upgraded to Premium after a couple of days for extra functionality. It was the only tool, where I felt it wasn't a downgrade compared to OF2 (rather, an upgrade). It is mainly a webapp, but also supports iOS/Android apps for mobile. It very strictly follows GTD though, so it might be a tad more overwhelming than most To-Do list apps without such functionalities.

Hi. I realize I'm bumping a 2 year old thread and not sure if you are even in need of an app still or have found something, but this is more or less a web app version of Things 2/3: https://www.nirvanahq.com

There's My Life Organized, too, which you can customize a lot, but having no left-hand project list is too overwhelming for me and I don't do well with it.

Hey, Nirvana HQ does this. One of my favourite functions. It pushes the task into your focus list on the day you set. You can have a "due date" as well as get it to push to your focus 1/2/3/4.. days prior, or just on the due date. Very flexible.

A great program/app I have found that sticks to GTD in the truest sense is NirvanaHQ https://www.nirvanahq.com/.

They are slow to make updates or changes, but the product works. Not a whole lot of bells and whistles, just streamlined and will help you with GTD.

This problem used to kill me. My email inbox was like a crime scene. I had a paper-based GTD system and then started using Nirvana (https://www.nirvanahq.com/). These definitely helped me focus on what was important but it didn't solve my inbox problem. A few months ago I started using a new tool called LifeStarr (www.lifestarr.com). It has messages integrated. I got the people I work the most with to start using it and it's tamed my inbox because I only get task related stuff in the LifeStarr inbox. My email is still a mess but it's not a big problem now. It took a little while to get comfortable but once I did, it made things so much better.

Try the nirvana GTD service out or that second one that was recommended a while back. Its harder to get back into GTD when you dont have the shell that organises the whole thing. Nirvana and other services like it does the organising for you. https://www.nirvanahq.com/

Currently I am using Nirvana:

https://www.nirvanahq.com/

It's simple, very streamlined for GTD (if that is your thing), and has the scheduled tasks thing done really nicely...

The downsides are...

1. it is a not a very flexible tool in terms of customizing your own workflow
2. it's not really meant to be a general purpose list tool that can handle everything from tasks to grocery lists.
3. It also has one tiny annoying problem for me which is that it does not give you any metadata for each task (like CreationDate, etc..). I need those sometimes to dig up related data on the task (like emails, etc..).

But ultimately I have stuck with it for a couple of years now.

Hope that helps.

I use Nirvana - inspired by David Allen's GTD method and book Getting Things Done

If you're still looking, I've found that Doit.im and NivanaHQ are both excellent Windows-based GTD task-managers.

My preference is doit.im because it allows for time estimates and did-take time comparison, and a daily, and weekly review. Nirvana has the option of colorizing your tasks and tags, which I found interesting, but not as powerful as the integrated did-take time and daily/weekly reviews.

Nirvana 2 is my favorite by far. It is all accessed through the browser but it is available offline. If you have a tablet, the desktop version on the tablet browser is fantastic, though the mobile version on a phone is pretty good too. It supports projects as well as GTD.