Strategr
Stategr helps you maximize your productivity, giving you the quickest and most effective way to time-box your day with strategies.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
Features
- Organization
Tags
- Productivity Tool
- organizer
- day-planner
- time-management
Strategr News & Activities
Recent activities
Strategr information
Developed by
Dmitry Khrykin Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
1 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
Office & ProductivityGitHub repository
- 336 Stars
- 38 Forks
- 16 Open Issues
- Updated
What is Strategr?
Stategr helps you maximize your productivity, giving you the quickest and most effective way to time-box your day with strategies.
• Activities: Make a color-coded list of your daily activities • Sessions: Organize your activities in time-boxed sessions • Arrange: Move session boundaries or drag whole sessions around • Stay Focused: Track current session, and get notified when next session starts • Export to Calendar: Use the power of your system's calendar
Strategr is available for macOS only. However, it is written mostly in cross-platform C++, and, although it is ready to be ported to various platforms, there's still a lot of work that needs to be done to ensure that its behavior is consistent and UI is top quality.
Strategr is free and will stay free, so any of your help is appreciated!
Comments and Reviews
This is a tool that was clearly created by someone who had their thinking cap on.
I have never been able to use digital planners despite many attempts; only paper. The developer of Strategr seems to have had a very similar experience to me with the difficulties. If you want to actually plan your day in detail, it's too awkward. It's hard to beat the ease of a pencil and eraser. But of course there are other disadvantages to paper planners.
This app is seems to be designed to mimic as best possible the convenience of a paper planner. I have tried many different apps for time management and none of them are as thoughtful regarding the real practical nature of the task as this one.
The presentation on the app is very modest; there aren't a bunch of button or animations or menus. But don't be fooled into thinking nothing is there. The design is perhaps intentionally restrained rather than lacking content.
If you go on AliExpress you can buy little items that are addressing the same need in totally different ways: washi tape with hours of the day so you can just make a planner anywhere; rubber stamps designed with a 24 hour schedule which can likewise be put wherever convenient. This app is basically the same idea, on the computer.
I think if you spend a great deal of you day on the computer (which, lets be honest, winter 2020 a lot of us are), and maybe bring your laptop with you when you go out, this could be a viable way to plan. If on the other hand you just get on the computer for a few hours after work it might be harder. I don't think I am going to use it on a regular basis but I will keep it around and probably use it once in a while. Even though it's not perfect for me, I am really impressed by it and I think there are defiantly others who this would be totally perfect for.
(I will note that in my use of this software, I did not investigate the ability it has to connect to regular calendars. They don't work for me and I don't have any. I think this would be really ideal to complement an existing digital planning system.)