# Date before now

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/date-before-now/3639>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [December 2, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/date-before-now/3639 "2022-12-02T13:47:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/date-before-now/3639/16 "2022-12-02T20:12:54Z")

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> [@Sarah\_Arminta](#):
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> I’m sensing a theme here. That Fibery is powerful and can do a lot. But it takes so many weird and complicated workarounds to do things that should _just work_.

One way of looking at it is like a box of Lego.  
If you want a toy car, you’re going to have to do a bit of work to get something usable, and even then it won’t look as pretty as an off-the-shelf toy car.

Or it’s a swiss army knife, which means you will be able to chop branches, file your nails and open a bottle of wine, but for none of these activities will the experience be as good as if you had a chainsaw, manicure set and corkscrew.  
Some people want a shed full of tools, some people like to travel light 🙂

With that in mind, you will always be able to find a tool that does some particular thing more easily/better/prettier than Fibery. But if there are a dozen processes you need to manage, you may find that a Fibery-based setup does all of them at a level you can live with.

There’s a lengthy discussion [here](https://community.fibery.io/t/lack-of-work-management-features-in-fibery-reminders-dependencies-notifications-my-work-etc/3319) in the community about what constitutes an acceptable level for any given function.

For me, part of the problem lies in that each user will have a different idea of what are the specific

> [@Sarah\_Arminta](#):
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> things that should _just work_.

“You can please all of the people some of the time, or some of the people all of the time, but…”

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