What I love about Tyto.
by Ivan Jenkins, co-founder
Before Tyto, I lived in Boomerang. Every important email went back in the queue for later. The problem: when I actually hit inbox zero and had time to breathe, I'd just sit there. I couldn't easily find the next most important thing to do. An empty inbox is not a plan.
Tyto fixed that. Then it fixed a lot of other things too. Here, in no particular order, is what I love about it after using it every day for years.
Catch every idea before it escapes.
"I no longer lose good ideas."
A good idea has the half-life of a goldfish memory. Tyto is wherever I am when one strikes — email, web, the iOS app — so I can fire it into a project before the moment passes.
It became my ubiquitous capture tool. Ideas, reminders, repeat tasks, the half-formed plan for next quarter. They all land in the same place. No mess, no fuss.
- It's my ubiquitous capture tool — ideas, reminders, repeat tasks
- I can quickly add tasks without being distracted by all my previous projects
- It allows me to offload ideas. No mess, no fuss
- I can flesh out my tasks and get as detailed as I like
What's the next right thing?
"It shows me what I should do next — no matter where I am."
A list of everything I have to do is not the same as a plan. Most apps just hand you back the list you gave them. Tyto adds value: it surfaces the next most important thing, not the loudest thing.
I get a quick health check on my life and business — what's overdue, what's stale, what's actually progressing. Then I pick the one task that matters and start.
- It helps me easily decide on what to do next
- It provides a quick health check of what is going on in my life and business
- It helps me manage me
- It allows me to hide projects until they interest me again
I'm allowed to be both a doer and a manager.
"It lets me choose my level of interest."
That one line, for me, is the whole posture of Tyto. Delegate a task without dropping out of the loop. Stay in the loop without micromanaging. Pull every conversation about a task into one place so nobody has to ask "wait, where did we leave that?" ever again.
The alerts earn their keep. I get pinged when a project's health deteriorates, or when my team aren't on the ball — not for every reply, every reaction, every shrug. Signal, not noise.
And the bit I quietly love most: I can invite an external client or contractor in, give them a task, and they don't have to pay anything to participate. The team is whoever the work needs, not whoever has a licence.
- It's an easy way to create and delegate tasks
- It allows me to invite external people to join my projects
- It allows me to allocate tasks to external people without them having to pay
- It allows me to see all communication around a certain task
- Great alerts — when a project deteriorates, or when the team aren't on the ball
- It saves me time when I am quoting
- It saves me time when I am planning
What changed when I committed.
- I get through more work.
- My company gets through more work.
- Happier customers.
- Projects on time, and more profitable.
- Everybody is in the loop.
- A tidy inbox.
I'm not impartial — I helped build it. But I also use it every day to run my businesses, and most of the bullets above came out of a doc I wrote for myself before I knew anyone else would read it. If a couple of those lines made you nod, give Tyto a fortnight. You'll know by then.
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