Balsio vs Intentions

Balsio – A chat app for work conversations Work messages often end up in the apps we use with friends and family. Balsio gives work conversations a separate place. With Balsio, you can: - Message anyone using their work email. No phone numbers needed. - Keep work and personal messages in separate apps. - Keep all your team's chats in one shared workspace. Invite a new person once, and they can join any team chat they need. - Talk with people outside your company: clients, partners, and suppliers. They do not have to join your team. - Message your WhatsApp contacts without leaving Balsio (available in the European Economic Area, where contacts have enabled third-party chats). - Organize chats into lists by project or client, reply in threads, and snooze chats or mark them as done. Tools like Slack and Teams are for conversations inside your company. Balsio is for your team and for the people outside your company: clients, partners, and suppliers. If you have used a personal chat app before, Balsio will feel familiar.

A day is a finite amount of time. Not an infinite list. Most to-do apps let you keep on adding. With no restrictions. Intentions asks how much of the day is actually yours to allocate to tasks — three hours, five, eight ‚ then shows that time filling up as you add to it. When the bar turns red, it is not a warning. It is arithmetic. HOW IT WORKS Add an intention and give it a rough length: 15 minutes, 30, an hour, or two. No sliders, no minute-by-minute entry — false precision is one of the key things that Intentions argues against. The availability bar keeps the running total so you don't have to. Swipe right when something is finished. Swipe left into the Incubator, where it waits - sorted by how long it has been waiting - until you're reading to bring it back into the day. SOMEONE TO KEEP YOU HONEST Pick a coach. Bea is warm and firm and wants you to finish. Nigel keeps score and raises an eyebrow. Ivy does not do pep talks and what simply tell you when something doesn't fit. They watch how your day is stacking up and say something about it: in the morning check-in, in the evening round-up, and when an intention has been carried for five days and needs a genuine decision rather than another chance to carry over. Rename them, swap them when you need a different personality to guide you, or hide them and go at it without guidance. WHAT ELSE DOES INTENTIONS OFFER 1. A dedicated home screen widget: what is next and how full the day is 2. Siri capture — say "Add to my Intentions" and it lands in your Incubator with the app shut 3. A morning check-in and an evening round-up, at times you choose 4. Midnight rollover — anything unfinished incubates or rolls over. Your choice 5. An options that simply refuses anything taking today past your hours 6. Backup to a single file, kept somewhere of your choosing to restore at a time that suits you NO ACCOUNT. NO CLOUD. NO WATCHING There is nothing to sign up for. Your intentions live on your device in a database only this app can read. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is analysed, and there is no server to lose it from. A backup goes where you send it and nowhere else. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/