ZinZen® versus Getting Things Done
How ZinZen® improves the GTD® method… Read more…

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GTD® just doesn’t cut it

Let me start by saying Getting Things Done® by David Allan helped a lot of people. It has valuable concepts like:

  • time blocking
  • next actions
  • a trusted system

That said, it just didn’t work for me because:

  • It’s not simple
  • It’s not easy to remember
  • It’s hard to keep it up
    • you need 📐discipline📐 for the weekly review
    • building the reflexes takes ⏳time⏳

I suppose I’m not the only one?
Do let me know if you disagree!

Is ✨ZinZen®✨ better?

Yes, it’s simpler!

1. One-time setup

  • You make a time budget per area of your life: work, family, sports, hobbies, etc
    • How many hours per week?
    • Any particular preference for
      • days of the week?
      • times of the day?
      • number of time blocks?
  • You organize your goals in a hierarchy
    • Start with your life goals
    • It’s totally OK to stop here if having the big picture is enough for you.
    • If you like a little more detail, keep adding sub goals in as many levels of detail as you like.

2. After that… when life happens:

  • Change your goals
  • Change estimated durations
  • Optionally add an order

That’s it!
🤯🤯🤯
Really… that’s it.

Here’s a picture illustrating the differences:
ZinZen-vs-GTD

Show - don’t tell

Here’s a little demo of a standard setup:
TODO

Bonus: you get collaboration on goals!

ZinZen® is designed for collaboration - but with a twist:
We don’t care about

  • organizations
    You can work together with people from work, customers, your family, friends, all from your single tool.
  • identities
    You can share ideas anonymously with the world - and get idea’s back. It doesn’t matter who they are or where they are. If they have good suggestions for you … why not?

Bonus 2: one overview

No more manual moves between projects, area’s of responsibility and someday/maybe. Everything is in one place - where you can find it intuitively using the single hierarchy.

What’s the catch?

ZinZen® isn’t finished.
I’m pouring all of my time and savings into this project, and we have some open source developers working for free, but we need a little extra financial help to go faster!

ZinZen® is:

  • open source
  • not-for-profit
    • a fully usable version runs for free on your phone - but we will charge for non-essential services that cost us money, like multi-device sync. We’ll add a little extra on top of the cost to pay back the loans we took for development of the app. We don’t have shareholders that eternally extract value. We only have regular market loans that end once they’re paid back.
  • private by design
  • secure by design

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