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Intend philosophy & paradigm

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Intend is an intentionality app, and it's also a philosophy/paradigm. This page, by founder Malcolm Ocean, outlines that paradigm. Virtually all to-do list software on the internet, whether it knows it or not, is based on the GTD philosophy (David Allen's "Getting Things Done") or some similar underlying assumptions. The main paradigmatic differences of Intend, compared to GTD-based systems are as follows: Keep reading and we'll explore each of them... Here are some taglines from various to-do list sites: All of these either talk about organizing tasks or “to-do lists”. Intend is, by many appearances, a "to-do list app", in the sense that it is an app (✓) where you make lists (✓) of things you intend to do (✓). But with Intend, the focus is on doing things, not on making and organizing lists. The main way that the app currently embodies this philosophy is by not offering any place in the app to write down a bunch of stuff that you're not planning to work on yet and may never work on. I

Intend is an intentionality app, and it's also a philosophy/paradigm. This page, by founder Malcolm Ocean, outlines that paradigm. Intend helps people realize what their goals are, and make their goals a reality Virtually all to-do list software on the internet, whether it knows it or not, is based on the GTD philosophy (David Allen's "Getting Things Done") or some similar underlying assumptions. The main paradigmatic differences of Intend , compared to GTD-based systems are as follows: choosing & doing , over organizing aliveness , instead of exhaustiveness goals as fundamental, rather than t

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