# Lack of Work Management features in Fibery (Reminders, Dependencies, Notifications, My Work, etc.) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Created:** [June 10, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/lack-of-work-management-features-in-fibery-reminders-dependencies-notifications-my-work-etc/3319 "2022-06-10T16:03:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/lack-of-work-management-features-in-fibery-reminders-dependencies-notifications-my-work-etc/3319/10 "2022-09-16T18:49:48Z")
> [@\[DONE\] "Watcher" of an Entity](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-watcher-of-an-entity/563/24): > > When thinking of the 80/20 principle, putting development resources into form view may generate a better return (in terms of number of potential users) than incremental improvements to notifications/search/timeline… It will not. Feel free to come back here and say “I told you so” in 6 months if you see a massive spike in adoption, I will be more than happy to eat my over-confident prediction! > [@\[DONE\] "Watcher" of an Entity](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-watcher-of-an-entity/563/24): > > TLDR any user can pick a particular product area and say “Why can’t Fibery do it as well as Acme Co?” but it would be impossible for Fibery to devote enough resources to become the best-in-class in that area without forfeiting opportunities for improvement in other areas. True, and yet false. Here’s why: What do Miro and ClickUp and Fibery and Figma and Google Docs and _so many other tools_ have in common? Notifications! You gotta get 'em right, or at least not aggressively wrong (Fibery is sadly a bit closer to that than “right” IMO). The same is true more narrowly - but still quite broadly and importantly - in the realm of “reminders and tasks”. And there are probably a few other things I’d call sort of “core competencies” or “basic features” that you arguably _have to get right_ to be a major player, i.e. to get quick and large-scale adoption. Or, if you don’t get those core competencies right, you have to excel so much in some other area, an area that either has little competition or that you have such a huge advantage in, _and_ that _has_ mass adoption potential (hint: advanced “no code” like Fibery doesn’t, by itself; an app-building version of DALL-E 2 _would_), that you gain users that way. These are of course broad maxims with plenty of exceptions, but I do think they are broadly true. “Table stakes” is a term for a reason (though there is plenty of disagreement on what constitutes those stakes in any given product area). > [@\[DONE\] "Watcher" of an Entity](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-watcher-of-an-entity/563/25): > > I actually didn’t mean that. So sorry if I gave that impression. I actually think Fibery is more of a jack of all trades, master of none. No, it still is (or at least was until recently). See ClickUp vs. Fibery article you linked to previously. 😉 (although they have put out [a new search-focused release since I did that comparison](https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/7404450039191-Release-2-135); but search in ClickUp was awful for a long time before that, at the least). Fibery’s search is quite basic, it just works quickly and does what it _does_ do very effectively. But still quite basic. The amusing part is that ClickUp’s search seemed so much more powerful, but fell down on the basics, which made it (in my tests) essentially unusable. So while it is perhaps a bit of a hollow victory in some sense, Fibery still won there, and to me the fact that the ClickUp _actual product experience_ was like that for so long means that Fibery’s win was _meaningful_ despite being based on “just working in a very basic way”. That will win over “fancy but broken” any day. 😉 Having said all that, I want to reiterate: I love Fibery, I love the team, and I love the product, and I _especially_ love the vision. I have spent the last 15 or so years doing pretty deep personal PKM and task/project management across a variety of tools. When I pick a tool for some particular function, I spend quite a while considering and testing it. I picked Fibery for my real estate business a couple of years ago and have no regrets vs. other options at the time like Notion or ClickUp or Coda. And now I am literally [on the verge of beginning a huge project to unify my own personal PKM + task/project management within Fibery, coming from multiple other tools](https://community.fibery.io/t/mapping-links-in-imported-content-into-fibery-links-references/3213), i.e. I am going “all in” on Fibery. For me this is a big vote of confidence, and you _know_ I’ve looked at most of the other relevant possible tools for this (including being an Obsidian user for the last 1+ years and being very familiar with its entire, incredible plugin ecosystem). Fibery’s interrelations and other benefits won out over the security of “local first” and flexibility of a well-supported plugin ecosystem. So yeah, I dig Fibery, and everything I am saying here is _because_ I love it and I see it getting so much less love from the broader potential market than I think it deserves. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.fibery.io/t/lack-of-work-management-features-in-fibery-reminders-dependencies-notifications-my-work-etc/3319)._