The Perfect Time A new year ⭐️ … the perfect time to reflect, reset, and set new intentions. Of course, it’s always the perfect time to be intentional about our actions and choices. (And as practitioners of GTD we already have 52 opportunities built-in — the weekly review!) So what matters most to you? What actions will bring you closer to where you want to be? Embrace the tasks and activities that bring joy and fulfillment, and maybe release the ones that don’t. Photo by Francesco Gallarotti on Unsplash Are there items on your lists that are needlessly cluttering up y ..read more

What’s been cookin’? Fast FilteringThe ability to quickly drill-down to the most relevant and actionable to-do’s has been a powerful capability on desktop. We’ve now brought the same “filter bar” to mobile, making it quick and easy to filter lists based on available time, energy and context. iPhone screenshot: Focus list filtered for to-do’s related to the kids, doable within 1 hour Top or bottomSequencing to-dos in the optimal order to be completed (placing more urgent items at the top, for example) reduces the mental overhead of deciding which action to take next. Just pick th ..read more

Over the weekend we released a mobile app update (v3.7.4) with some significant performance issues. Many of you contacted us to report that the Nirvana app was acting sluggish, or would continually reload itself or sometimes outright freeze. Thank you everyone who let us know about the problem so quickly. We were able to isolate the bug and submit a fixed version to both GooglePlay and the AppStore within hours. Android version 3.7.5 is available now in GooglePlay. iOS version 3.7.5 is still “pending review” by the AppStore. Perhaps they have fewer reviewers? We are crossing our fing ..read more

Happy New Year! ? ? At long last we’ve brought Reminders to Nirvana’s mobile apps. Set a date/time to be reminded of a pending to-do, and you’ll receive a push-notification when that moment arrives. A Reminder Notification (shown on an iOS lock screen and Apple Watch) Yes yes, long time users know we’ve resisted implementing this for a long time as notifications are one of the biggest disrupters to flow and productivity. That said, having finally added the feature, we must admit they have their place, when used judiciously, to be gently nudged at a specific moment to pay attenti ..read more

Nerd alert: this post is technical. We’ve spent the better part of the past year reworking the underpinnings of our mobile and desktop apps. It’s been quite a slog but worth it. Nirvana was one of the earliest proponents of the Progressive Web App movement. In fact, the term hadn’t been coined yet when we dove in! And as is often the case with being on the bleeding edge of early adoption, we’d accumulated quite a bit of cruft that needed clearing out. But clear away we did and prevail we have. Our mobile apps are now built on Capacitor. And our desktop apps are leveraging the la ..read more

A few weeks in now, we hope you’re settling in to the new year. Nirvana is looking to make some headway on our backlog of features and updates. We could use some help. If you have skills in any of the following areas we’d love to talk. Engineering Building Android and/or iOS Widgets React / Next.js / Firebase / FCM Capacitor and/or Electron Marketing Marketing Strategies GA4 Content Mindful Productivity think pieces Podcast interviewing chops If you’ve got some spare time and would like to help, please and introduce yourself! It’s 2022! We’re Hiring! w ..read more

A quick maintenance release for the web app to fix an issue on Windows 10 where pressing the windows key was triggering the left nav to run up towards the Inbox. image from unsplash You should now be able to windows+tab around (as one often does) and still find Nirvana as you left it when you come back. Thanks to all who reported this. Shift+reload your browser (or logout/login) if you are still seeing this bug. February 2021 Update was originally published in Free Your Mind on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this ..read more

Reflection and gratitude — what a year Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash Well that was certainly a year like no other. I wanted to take a moment to reflect on a challenging year, and express my heartfelt gratitude to all of you. In an odd way the pandemic made our world feel smaller and more intimate — not just because we seemed to be in each other’s living rooms over Zoom, but perhaps the collective struggle of this pandemic helped many of us rediscover our commonalities, our vulnerabilities, our humility, our humanity. We were blessed to have been able to continue doing w ..read more

Sneaking these updates in just under the wire — Dark mode comes to iOS and Android, as does a handy new feature: Today’s Calendar Events listing at the top of your Focus list. oh hai, that’s nifty And our apps for Mac and Windows are now generally available for all who wish to give them a spin. ✌? August 2020 Updates was originally published in Free Your Mind on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story ..read more

We hope you’re doing OK in these crazy times. It’s been a difficult few months for us all. They say to focus on what you can control—so we’ve pushed out some new goodness to the web app. Keyboard navigation enhancements Select tasks with up / down arrow keys; shift+up / shift+down to select multiple tasks; option+up / option+down to move selected tasks; With tasks selected, right arrow to show notes, left arrow to hide notes, enter to edit, then enter to save changes; n key inserts a new task just below a selected task; Traverse the lists in the left nav with br ..read more