Yeah, I don't love their communication / marketing as well.
Basically, it is a todo manager, but with built-in first-class scheduling. You input your todos, assign time estimates, and Sorted helps you spread them out in your day, keeping your calendar events in mind.
To explain the value in this, let me copy one of my comments in this thread:
[...] Sorted is really great for people like myself who tend to overfill their todo lists, and subsequently feel bad at the end of the day when they don't manage to complete everything.
Sorted pushes me to assign time estimates to the task, which helps me to keep my todo-list for the day more realistic and manageable. I like it more than managing my todos directly in the calendar [...].
> Basically, it is a todo manager, but with built-in first-class scheduling.
> You input your todos, assign time estimates, and Sorted helps
> you spread them out in your day, keeping your calendar events in mind.
Org-mode does present all the same information, but tasks are not automatically scheduled down to the minute. Though I would not be surprised if someone did write a script to micromanage every minute of the day.
If someone needs the tool to say "17:04 unplug laptop ; 17:05 place laptop in bag" then I think that they are spending too much time with their tools and need to spend more time doing the first thing on their list no matter if it has a timestamp or not.
Basically, it is a todo manager, but with built-in first-class scheduling. You input your todos, assign time estimates, and Sorted helps you spread them out in your day, keeping your calendar events in mind.
To explain the value in this, let me copy one of my comments in this thread:
[...] Sorted is really great for people like myself who tend to overfill their todo lists, and subsequently feel bad at the end of the day when they don't manage to complete everything.
Sorted pushes me to assign time estimates to the task, which helps me to keep my todo-list for the day more realistic and manageable. I like it more than managing my todos directly in the calendar [...].