Sunsama and the overall experience summarised

 

I Tried Sunsama for 7+ Days

The pros, cons & the overall experience summarised

Over the last 20+ days, I’ve been trying Sunsama. As a Todoist user, and coming from a manual to-do list app — I wanted to try this out to give you my thoughts on how it works.

This review is a balanced overview of the application — posing the good, the flaws and overall use case in context to other productivity apps.

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🧠 Current Situation

• Right now, a Todoist user — combining Google Calendar for my recent push for time-blocking to do more deep work.
• Sunsama interested me — as I was looking at daily planner type applications, curious about daily planners, we have an article here to read!

➕ Pros

• Kanban layout — seeing a fan of the week ahead is something I’ve never really used before. I like it. Seeing the week’s tasks in one view is nice!

• Focus Mode — blocking out everything and focusing on the task at hand is something I’m bad at. With Todoist I’d see all my other tasks and get worried about how the others were going. I love this view.

• Planning — Hand-holding is not something new but becoming much more popular in the world of productivity. This is why you pay the premium with Sunsama I think.

• Objectives — I like the week objectives. Although I didn’t discover until week 2, the approach to connecting tasks to targets makes much more sense in context to getting the major hitting stuff done first.
• Calendars — I connect both Google calendars — work and personal, this is a life saver, to be able to see two types of work and social in one view.

All of these features have impressed me to date.

➖ Cons

• Mobile App — Not overly impresed with their iOS app. You have to download via TestFlight and once in, the app is very basic — more of a viewing experience. For me, this is fine — as I use Desktop mainly.

• Small Bugs — Teams are always squashing bugs, but I noticed some minor frame drops as I was reviewing each time I switched between calendar and task view — only 1–2s drop outs and chances are they’ll fix this in each tweak.
• Meeting Notes — I’m not sure I’m a huge fan of the meeting notes layout. I think the premise is nice, just the multiple locations to input text — agenda, action items, discussion topics and notes feels like they need to all be filled. Is this just me?

• Capture — Sunsama has a feature called Backlog. Backlog captures things, but nothing like Todoist’s perfect capture on iOS — it was fast, sleek. In comparison Sunsama does stack up.

🤔 Opinion

• Focused Sessions — I must say, since using Sunsama the quality of work sessions have been better. I’d probably say this is due to the hand-holding planning features inside the app and the focus mode, those in combination have helped centralise what matters.
• Less Meetings — Collectively I try not to have meetings, but since using the time-blocking methods in Sunsama, front-and-centre, I seem to be reducing the meetings I have and doing more deep work.
• Dilemma — How will my Todoist come into play? I’m in a little dilemma, as I like the role of a daily planner for keeping me focused — but I’m still in my old ways with Todoist, that might hinder me. I’m going to see how things go and see where Todoist sits in my system.