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A while back a reader was asking me for suggestions on planners for repetitive tasks. At the time I couldn't recommend any because I wasn't using anything for those types of activities. (Writing blog posts, writing articles, create a new product, vacuuming, etc…) I'm terrible at doing repeatable, repetitive tasks and will put them off forever, if I can.

I went searching and I found a very simple, intuitive, cheap program for those tasks that you need to do periodically. It's called Sciral Consistency. I've been testing it out for the past couple of weeks and it has proved to be all that it claimed to be. It keeps reminding me of the things that I need to do.

There's no frills or bells and whistles for planning in the future. You just go Task->New Task to open the New Task window. Enter the task name, the minimum number of days before you need to perform the task again, the maximum number of days that you can let the task go for you and the start date. The task appears color coded and sorted according to priority in the main window. Tasks that were supposed to be done in the past are sorted to the top followed by those that need to be done now and on to the ones that will need to be done in the future.

It's really simple to setup. The hardest part would be figuring out how to get it to come up automatically whenever you start your computer, which I would recommend so you don't have an excuse for ignoring it. It's not annoying, it doesn't cause pop ups to appear or disrupt your other work.

All in all, I give it a thumbs up. If you need reminders to do certain tasks in your professional or personal life, then give Sciral Consistency a try. There's a free trial version that is limited by the number of tasks you can have in a single file (you can have many files though) or you can have unlimited tasks per file for $25.

Sciral Consistency

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