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There's this blog post about why Nestful was rewritten in Gleam:

blog.nestful.app/p/why-i-rewr...
December 17, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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The wonders of software development is we make our own tools
December 1, 2024 at 9:46 PM
The wonders of software development is we make our own tools
December 1, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Even if you decide Nestful is not for you, the approaches behind it can be taken to many other apps, for a bit more hassle.

Use it to your advantage!
November 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM
We keep managing projects but we forget they all compete for _our_ time, which is what we should really be managing.

Nesting and bubbling up items allows separate tasks competing for our time to be directly compared and prioritized according to their urgency indicators.
November 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM
That's where Nestful comes in, by doing Spontaneous Productivity accounting on your behalf.

Instead manually handling a list, Nestful has, well, nesting.

Nesting is an extremely powerful tool because it allows you to compare the urgency indicators of unrelated tasks.
November 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM
The best example for UI is a due date, the comparison of tells us the relative urgency of tasks.

There are many possible other indicators. For example, task completion percentage. A task that is mostly done is less important than one you haven't even started.
November 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Well, there isn't really a way to achieve a perfect list. We can, however, get pretty damn close by:

1. Offloading urgency (UI) indicators to task creation
2. Automatically order list according to urgency indicators
3. Be able to update said indicators

A UI is information comparable between tasks.
November 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Whenever you reach Spontaneous Productivity time, you open your evergreen list of priorities and do the top item.

No planning, no worrying, no rescheduling.

We can't just list our tasks in any order, that's a lot of friction. So how do you achieve that evergreen list of priorities?
November 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM
To achieve said goal, we need an _evergreen_ list of priorities, in which task are always positioned correctly*.

With that list, instead of planning every little thing, your calendar will look like this (see attached picture).

Every non time-restricted even is SP time.

* more on that later
November 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM
That universal truth makes the meta-timespend that is scheduling a mostly useless endeavor.

Except for time-restricted events (going to a movie, client meeting, etc), wouldn't it be better if you'll just immediately know what's next, the moment you are free for another task?

That's the goal.
November 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Spontaneous Productivity is an approach to maximizing one's own time by avoiding scheduling almost completely.

Scheduling is time spent in order to spend more time later. Ask any software developer and they'll tell you the unavoidable truth of the universe:

People suck at estimating the future.
November 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM