Pagico review 20165/3/2023 There was one more, but I cannot read my own handwriting… I am happy to give Pagico 6 a ‘tick’ against all of these features (except handwriting recognition). I came up with these: structure, ease of use, flexibility, reliability, informative, completeness, collaboration, portability, tracking, visually attractive. I decided to start things off with a one–minute brainstorm about features that matter to me in selecting an app for managing complex projects. Now I have never met Ryo, but the persona emerging from his emails is a kind one, with a commitment to excellence - not the sort of person I would want to disappoint. ‘Lift your game, Ozengo’, I thought, and share the news about Pagico 6 with the bloggerocracy. So what spurred me on to put mouse to wordpress again? An email from Ryo, my software developer pen pal in Japan, who politely enquired how I was going with my review of Pagico 6, the latest upgrade of their productivity flagship for desktops, which was launched on 20 February 2013. Maybe it was Leo Babauta’s zenhabits injecting a healthy dose of productivity agnosticism into my life. Maybe it was quitting my job and setting up a little business of my own. Maybe the Christmas pudding was too heavy. As Shakespeare (almost) wrote: ‘I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth ’. I have had a serious case of blogger’s block. Granted, my illustration is a bit of a spoiler, but please read on if you want to find out which other apps made it into my top ten. My ranking is exactly that: a personal top ten, reflecting my preferences (I like a nice UI), my approach to productivity (David Allen’s GTD®), my hardware (I am a Mac user), my needs (as a sole operator I have no need for team collaboration features or enterprise–based software) and my experience (I have tested ~30 task management apps over the past two years). Only ten apps will fit into a top–10 after all (I was reasonably good at maths at school). Despite meeting those criteria, Things, a sana, FacileThings and several other pretty solid apps did not make the grade. They are all compatible with David Allen’s Getting Things Done® (GTD®) methodology, capable of supporting basic to complex project management and with at least one mobile app (iPhone or iPad, ideally both). This time around I am opting for an unashamedly impressionistic approach: these are the task management apps I like best. The first time, in a quest for ‘objectivity’, I got bogged down in a treacly mix of scoring apps against criteria that were of my own choosing anyway. This is my second attempt at writing this post.
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