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5 Essential Variables to Consider Before Migrating to a New App in Your PKM

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A new fancy cool app catches your eye. It’s not easy to avoid the temptation.

Beware: you’ll have to dedicate time to it.

Is it worth it?

As a PKM geek:

You’re constantly tempted by new apps that seem to cover features your current set of apps doesn’t.
You’re also a little bit bored of seeing the same screen day by day.
You start seeing solutions instead of new problems.

Before betting on a new app, you should analyze some variables to decide if you should migrate to that new app.

Do this because the new implementation will mean:

Here are the 5 variables I check before putting my energy and time into a new (“fancy” and “cool”) app.

1. GUI and UX

Both, the GUI and the UX, are critical elements for me.

I spend many hours looking at a screen.

I want to see something gorgeous, nice, something I’d love to watch.

I want something that speeds up my productivity, becoming an extension of my physical brain.

Who’s behind the app? Is it a consolidated team? Does the app have a future to survive in the long term?

It’s not nice to spend hours and energy in an app that will disappear in a matter of months.

Which ones of my workflows are affected?

Be careful to migrate to a new app that has a huge impact on your main workflows.

The more critical the affected workflows are, the more time you should think about taking this step forward.

What problems does the new app solve?

Are they really critical ones?

Is my productivity affected daily by those problems?

Does the new app give me real added value to my life?

Will my daily life have a profound positive impact by changing to this app?

Be honest. Don’t lie to yourself.

If it’s not the case, trust me, avoid the change.

Migrating from one app to another is something you have to think about.

You’ll waste a ton of time before arriving at your destination.

Be 100% sure it’s worth the journey.