Notion is good at first, but quickly gets out of hand. At least it was my case. You can consider Routine (routine.co). It does everything that you mentioned.
You're right, TickTick is another tool in the space. We are trying to provide more speed through our keyboard shortcut and console but the idea is the same indeed, to have tasks and notes.
Apple Calendar is something we are obviously considering.
As for console which is hard to exit, we get that feedback all the time. Unfortunately, even though it looks trivial, it is actually not super simple to do. I suggest you re-hit CTRL+SPACE to hide it, it is the easiest way. Otherwise, you need to reput focus in the console and hit CTRL+ESC.
As for the dependence on the Google ecosystem, we understand but, as discussed through other comments on this post, we had to start somewhere. We will expand later but it just made sense to start on Google given that we are going after professionals and that there are 400M Google Workspace accounts.
Hi. Indeed, it's far from perfect. We haven't had time to work on the offline/sync yet. You need to reload to get the new state. It's on the roadmap. Will be done soon.
Thanks for your message. You're not the first one to report a blank screen. Very strange. We didn't see that before. You can send us an email at [email protected] and we'll try to dig deeper. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Relating to your last comment, I would be great to chat. I'd love to get your input: [email protected] if you want to reach out directly.
No inspiration from sorted3 but similarities with the circle on the logo indeed. The same could probably be said of many other productivity tools, like Sunrise :)
We are not trying to say that Routine has been built around privacy like Protomail could say. We do not make such claims on our website.
But since we are asking users for their Google credentials, we thought it was more transparent to explain, for each service, why we needed it and what it meant. We prefer to be transparent than just ask for a bunch of permission without explanation as other services do.
And yes we are tight to Google because it was simpler for us to start this way. Again, most of the professionals we target use Google Workspace. In the future, the service could evolve and support other services like Outlook.
We could have released on the macOS App Store but there was no benefit at first. We want to control how many people use it at first to make sure that we fix the bugs as they come. We've been working on this for only a few months.
Let us check the problem regarding your 401 and come back to you. Sorry about that.
Hi Brajeshwar. Indeed, we need access to Google Tasks because all the tasks created in Routine are stored in a specific list in your Google Tasks account. We do not store the tasks on our server.
Recurrence is something we will improve. But you have pretty specific ones :)
We will actually add a planning view with a full week. We are definitely aligned on that. Stay put.
For the future dates, yes indeed it's not ideal. We are in the process of fixing that. Well spotted.
For the navigation, again, need to improve you are right. You need to ESC to come back to arrow navigation for now.
Clicking out of the console is not easy to solve unfortunately. We are on it as well. What you can do is either focus on the console and press ESC. Or you can hit CTRL+SPACE once more and it will hide the console.
We do support "do something on DAY at TIME for DURATION" but it's still a bit buggy. We need to improve it :)
We prefer to warn users instead of just using their Google Account.
As for why we use Google services. It's because most professionals do use Google Calendar. Some don't, we understand. We might serve them in the future but we have to start somewhere.
We advertise the desktop app (instead of the Web app) because Routine is intended to be used through a desktop-wide keyboard shortcut so you can capture thoughts and tasks from anywhere. A Web app requires that you switch to your browser, then find the right tab and click it to then be able to interact with the Web app. We believe it is too slow for a productivity tool. But some people do not have a choice (Windows) this is why we've answered them.
If you do not trust our service, we understand. We don't force you to use it. It's obviously your right.
But just to make things clear (which we explain in the Privacy section), all tasks are stored in your Google Tasks account. All events are stored in your Google Calendar. And all your notes are in your Google Drive. This means we store no data on our servers (for now at least).