Students want to maximize their time. Likewise, I, too, am on a quest to manage time smartly. I’m currently managing it without a plan, and it shows. I go out for a treat every night and then spend an hour cleaning to bring a loved one joy. I work full-time in my career, often spending five or more extra hours at work each week, and I swim and exercise regularly. Plus, I’m working on two projects for a loved one, one of which has a deadline, and I need to read a book in full within two months to secure an interview guest who is the author. I’m barely making a dent.
As a result, like most students with their extracurricular activities, I’m not finding time to work on my documentary film, finalize the film funding applications, register for Metis status (which has implications for arts funding), or write an exposé on the United Nations for The Voice Magazine (where each of the exposés take upward of twenty hours to research and write), although I’m super stoked about the UN topic. I start an academic course and swim lessons from a varsity swim coach this week, which excites me, but I’m falling behind.
Isn’t that the student or parent’s dilemma? There is a lot to do but too little time! A friend says the student dilemma is that we’re always behind and never catch up.
So, the first point of business is to prioritize, but I’m at a loss for how, as everything seems important. So, I asked ChatGPT to help me schedule tasks, and it takes a lot of work to get a half-decent answer and even more for it to make adjustments. And Android task manager apps just don’t cut it.
This past week, I opened an email from a Udemy course instructor, which provided a list of recommended AI services. And that’s when I discovered the limousine of task management apps, one built on AI that is a dream come true, useful in a business, education, or personal context. It’s called Taskade, and it’s superior to all conventional task management apps I’ve ever encountered!
It’s the ultimate task management program, where its AI can auto-generate editable logical steps, according to our direction; add start and end dates and times; do research for us; create topics and subtopics; and so much more, all of which we can insert into the outline. It’s like Microsoft Word’s outline feature, only on steroids (although Microsoft can be easily converted into an essay format), and each item can be checked off upon completion.
If we love our AI and love checklists, the Taskade Android app is worth considering. And if we haven’t had much experience, if any, talking to AI, no worries. Simply talk to it like it’s someone we love to get its optimal performance.
