No Longer Powered by Llamas 2002

I stopped using Llamagraphic's Life Balance a while back and I want to tell you why. Though it touts itself as a tool for managing all your goals, from the practical to the daydream, in practice it doesn't distinguish well between them. I found myself demotivated by seeing a red "Oops!" next to a task which wasn't a to-do list sort of thing (scrub bathtub) but rather a wishlist item related to improving my life (visit a museum). The constant emphasis on the ways in which I'm not living my ideal life made me reluctant to use the tool and, frankly, if I'm only going to use it for mundane planning of things to do, there are easier tools.

A pity. I had high hopes for it, but it's not yet subtle and complex enough for what I want. Until I can distinguish between normal to-do items and suggestions (which should just disappear after a while if I don't do them instead of nagging me), it won't meet my needs.

(These comments apply to version 3.0x - since I've uninstalled it, I don't remember exactly the build, but it was their Mac OS X version).

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No Longer Powered by Llamas

I stopped using Llamagraphic's Life Balance a while back and I want to tell you why. Though it touts itself as a tool for managing all your goals, from the practical to the daydream, in practice it doesn't distinguish well between them. I found myself demotivated by seeing a red "Oops!" next to a task which wasn't a to-do list sort of thing (scrub bathtub) but rather a wishlist item related to improving my life (visit a museum). The constant emphasis on the ways in which I'm not living my ideal life made me reluctant to use the tool and, frankly, if I'm only going to use it for mundane planning of things to do, there are easier tools.

A pity. I had high hopes for it, but it's not yet subtle and complex enough for what I want. Until I can distinguish between normal to-do items and suggestions (which should just disappear after a while if I don't do them instead of nagging me), it won't meet my needs.

(These comments apply to version 3.0x - since I've uninstalled it, I don't remember exactly the build, but it was their Mac OS X version).

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